Monthly Archives: August 2008
Motorola Calls White Spaces Field Trials a Success
Motorola said Aug. 7 its geolocation device operated successfully in the Federal Communications Commission's ongoing white spaces field trials. White spaces are the unused...
‘Second Life’ Rival Vivaty Opens 3-D Virtual World Platform
Virtual world software startup Vivaty, one of a handful of companies following the path Linden Lab's "Second Life" has blazed since 2003, has opened...
Dell ‘Cloud Computing’ Trademark on Hold
Dell, which had been attempting to trademark the term "cloud computing" for the company's own use, will now have to wait several weeks or...
Next-Generation Scalable NAS
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Digital Media: Meeting the Storage Requirements of this Exploding Market
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Gartner Analysts Decry Facebook, Twitter Bans at Work
Gartner analysts Anthony Bradley and Nikos Drakos say corporations should not ban social applications such as Twitter or social networks such as Facebook and...
VMware Joining Linux Foundation
VMware is bringing its x86 virtualization know-how to the Linux Foundation and will begin contributing resources to the open-source community.VMware, which despite the added...
Google Gmail, Google Apps Outage in the Cloud
Several Google users, some of them paying customers, found themselves knocked out of Google Apps and Gmail after an "access issue" knocked out the...
The Heartbeat of Wireless Medical Security
Here's a cool one: a pair of researchers held a presentation on the security implications of implantable medical devices that feature wireless connectivity today...
Android-plus-Symbian: Never Say ‘Never’
Nice to see that my colleague Jason Brooks of eWEEK's esteemed Labs is paying attention. He took immediate issue with my post from earlier...