Monthly Archives: January 2009
Genachowski Headed to FCC Chairmanship
President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Julius Genachowski, Obama's chief campaign technology adviser, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a number...
Sling Media Loses Its Executive Team
EchoStar Technologies, the owner and maintainer of the satellite fleet that provides the signal that Dish Network markets, has got one of its arms...
Data Storage 2009: It’s All About Efficiency
By all accounts, 2008 was the year storage virtualization graduated from the University of Testing & Quality Assurance and matriculated into the real world...
BigFix Zeros In on Software Licensing Costs
BigFix on Jan. 13 announced the general availability of its new software asset management solution, Decision Support System - Software Asset Management.The company specializes...
Yahoo Picks Autodesk’s Carol Bartz as New CEO
Yahoo, hampered by takeover attempts and struggling with diminishing returns for the last three years, decided on its new leadership direction Jan. 13 when...
Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update with 41 Fixes
Oracle delivered 41 security fixes to its customers in its first CPU (Critical Patch Update) of 2009.Among those fixes are patches for serious flaws...
Intel Atom Processor Appears in New Lenovo Desktop
While PC vendors spent most of the 2009 International CES trying to outdo themselves when it comes to offering the latest and greatest "netbook"...
SOA Vendor WebLayers Taps Industry Veteran Jeff Papows as CEO
WebLayers has announced the appointment of industry veteran Jeff Papows as its president and CEO.The SOA (service-oriented architecture) governance software maker also announced that...
Forrester Research Sees IT Spending Declining in 2009
A slowing global economy along with a strengthening U.S. dollar means that IT spending will decline about 3 percent in 2009, as companies cut...
5 Reasons Companies Aren’t Skipping Vista
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