Monthly Archives: May 2008
Dell Sees IT Spending Slow Through Summer 2008
Dell is expecting IT spending to cool down this summer.While the Round Rock, Texas, PC vendor posted solid financial numbers May 29, it warned...
Google Partners Soar in the Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO - At the Google I/O developer conference here, Google sponsored a roundtable on the business implications of developing in the cloud.Mike Patterson,...
Google VP Gives Developers Advice
SAN FRANCISCO-Marissa Mayer, vice president of search product and user experience at Google, gave developers some insight into how things are done at Google...
Google Still Gung-ho on Book Search
With Microsoft announcing plans to jump ship on its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic last week, industry watchers are turning to Google...
Intel, Micron Make Smallest Flash Chip Yet
Intel and Micron Technology May 29 announced that their joint venture R&D project will skip the "4x" generation of process technologies for their NAND...
Via Aims for the Low-Cost Notebook Market
Via is ramping up it efforts to take on Intel in the emerging low-cost PC market with a new line of low-watt x86 processors...
Apple Cures iCal Ills
Apple released a major security update May 28 that included a patch for vulnerabilities in its iCal calendar application that were disclosed last week.The...
Symantec: Adobe Patch Not a Problem After All
After further analysis, researchers at Symantec have determined a patch issued by Adobe to address a bug in Flash Player is effective across all...
Google Sings the Copyright Infringement Blues
Google has been on cruise control for awhile regarding copyright issues, but in the past week a few issues have burbled up that bear...
The Pornography of Laptop Searches
The government is again using its favorite boogeyman--child pornography--to push the likely limits of the U.S. Constitution's proscription against unreasonable search and seizures. The...