Monthly Archives: December 2008
Is a Google Operating System Built on Android, Gears in the Cards?
Kudos to my former InternetNews colleague Andy Patrizio for ferreting out a fascinating new Google rumor we can tease each other with for weeks...
HP Offering Revised Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software Suite
Hewlett-Packard is expanding the capabilities of its virtual desktop infrastructure software suite to include improved multimedia support for virtual clients as well as the...
Cisco Appliance Puts Video Atop Unified Communications, Collaboration
With video rapidly becoming the premier medium of information delivery on the Internet, Cisco Systems Dec. 8 today introduced the Cisco Media Experience Engine...
Symantec, McAfee Researchers See New Trojan in DNS Pharming Attacks
A new variant of the DNSChanger Trojan is appearing in DNS pharming attacks.Once the malware, named Trojan.Flush.M by Symantec, infects a machine, it creates...
Top Database Stories of 2008
It was an interesting year for database vendors. It was a year of cloud databases and acquisitions, most notably Sun Microsystems' purchase of MySQL....
RIM BlackBerry Bold Comes Up a Little Short
When I first got my hands on an early demo unit of Research In Motion's BlackBerry 9000 smartphone-also known as the Bold-for a few...
The CIOs guide to onshoring technology jobs
While there are few good outcomes from a strained economy, one outcome worth considering is the reconsidering of outsourcing. Outsourcing in reality has meant...
Google, Salesforce.com Partner on Cloud Computing
On-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com announced a partnership with Google to allow its Force.com platform as a service to the Google App Engine application, Google's...
Lack of Controls, IT Budget Hurting Database Security Efforts
A survey of IT decision makers by the Enterprise Strategy Group is enough to make those concerned about database security tremble slightly.While 58 percent...
Intel Atom Processor Road Map Springs a Leak
Intel is planning to shrink its line of Atom processors to 32-nanometers in the second half of 2010 and the chip giant plans to...