2009-07-10
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher, notebooks with solid-state drives such as Toshiba's 512GB SSD laptop become more and more useful for both business and personal purposes. But prices remain 20 percent to 40 percent higher than standard spinning disk drive portables.
2009-07-10
The approved legislation supports allowing venture capitalist-backed small businesses to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. In addition to increasing R&D award sizes for all participants, the SBIR-STTR bill also aims to help small businesses that support NASA's space shuttle program with the transition through the fleet's 2010 retirement.
2009-07-10
AOL, which is in the process of being spun off from Time Warner, is reviewing assets it could sell or divest, but will likely keep its social networking site Bebo, CEO Tim Armstrong said.
2009-07-10
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he will discuss with Apple how his role on its board might change after this week's announcement of the Google Chrome OS. Chrome OS could compete with Apple's own Mac OS X.
2009-07-09
Several storage industry analysts tell eWEEK they believe NetApp should take a breather and then pursue an acquisition that makes sense—one that it can afford yet one that will help the data storage company broaden its market opportunities and keep growing.
2009-07-09
The No. 3 U.S. carrier cuts a seven-year, $5 billion deal for Ericsson to manage its day-to-day networking services, provisioning and maintenance for Sprint-owned CDMA, IDEN and wire-line networks.
2009-07-09
Broadband integrated circuits manufacturer Broadcom drops its $909 million bid for converged networks developer Emulex after Emulex's board rejects the sweetened offer.
2009-07-09
Government contracting company Smartronix nabs a contract worth $18 million to redesign the Recovery.gov, the federal Website dedicated to tracking stimulus spending.
2009-07-09
Acronis announces the next generation of disaster recovery products aimed at cost-conscious businesses, the Backup & Recovery 10 line of software products.
2009-07-08
Research by Symantec MessageLabs shows the amount of spam that contains links masked via URL shortening services has jumped dramatically in the past few days. While services like TinyURL and Cligs are popular for legitimate users, people should treat shortened URLs with at least as much caution as other links, security researchers say.
2009-07-08
Microsoft names Steven Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, president of the Windows Division. The role involves overseeing the engineering and marketing for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer, just ahead of the Oct. 22 rollout of Windows 7. Microsoft needs its new operating system to be a hit to overcome bad memories of Windows Vista and help keep revenues up in the midst of a global recession.
2009-07-08
With a launch pad hydrogen gas leak that twice postponed the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to International Space Station in June fixed, Endeavour's crew arrives for a July 11 liftoff. The mission primarily focuses on delivering the last hardware for Japan's Kibo laboratory complex, a literal "front porch" on the ISS for space-exposed science experiments.
2009-07-08
A new SAAS-based application from AT&T and mobile resource management provider Xora, the Xora GPS Locator from AT&T, gives cost-conscious businesses with limited IT staff the ability to better track their field-deployed employees.
2009-07-08
Cost-conscious businesses that find their IT departments overwhelmed with technology issues might turn to IT services provider CMIT Solutions, which announced the launch of its co-managed service desk.
2009-07-08
On the heels of announcing a compact network-attached storage solution, the DS409Slim, Synology debuts the rack-mounted 4-bay network attached storage server, the Rack Station RS409.
2009-07-07
The vulnerability in the Video ActiveX control Microsoft has warned about was reported to the company in 2008, but that doesn't mean Microsoft dragged its feet too much when it came to patching, says one of the researchers who found the vulnerability. With hackers circling, however, users may not want to wait on a patch to protect them.
2009-07-07
UPDATED: Industry analysts who read/research/blog/report on these things tell eWEEK they are generally in agreement: The corporate battle between NetApp, the original mover in the Data Domain sweepstakes, and outsider EMC has gotten way, way out of hand. Whichever company eventually makes the purchase will be paying far too much for what amounts to one point product.
2009-07-07
After three decades, current owner AOL decides to pull the plug on CompuServe Classic, formerly one of the Internet's premier service providers. Although its forums and other services once attracted hundreds of thousands of users, CompuServe eventually lost ground to services such as AOL and as its subscriber base migrated from dial-up services to broadband. AOL plans to port CompuServe's e-mail subscribers to a new system.
2009-07-07
A British telecommunications company is using text messaging to sort through candidates for a job at the firm.
2009-07-07
Sony's entry into the crowded netbook market finds itself competing with well-established brands such as Acer, Asus and Lenovo. Can a high-resolution display and the Sony brand name make its Vaio W-Series of "mini-notebooks" an able competitor?
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