Monthly Archives: March 2009
Google Ventures a Threat to Twitter?
Google's new venture fund will finance just about any kind of project its board likes, although, as the Washington Post points out, it doesn't...
Silence Making People Nervous in Impending IBM-Sun Deal
There's been a Cone of Silence for a week now around the impending IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When such a mystery takes place,...
Adobe, Facebook Unite for ActionScript 3 Client Library on Facebook Platform
Adobe Systems has made its open-source ActionScript 3 Client Library available for the Facebook Platform, opening the latter even more to developers.Through the library,...
American Expands Domestic Wi-Fi Service
After a successful trial run on limited flights, American Airlines said March 31 it was expanding its Wi-Fi Internet service to more than 300...
Laid-Off Microsoft Employees Profiled
The New York Times recently ran an article about the realities of being let go from Microsoft, a technology company not historically known for...
Conficker: What It Is, How to Stop It and Why You May Already Be...
Conficker is a work of malware that, in the form of multiple variants, has been worming its way through unpatched Windows desktop and server...
Microsoft Windows Mobile Marketplace Gets EA Mobile, MySpace Support
Microsoft is sharing new information about the Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store, in anticipation of its keynote address at CTIA Wireless 2009 on...
Sun Layoffs to Happen This Week
IBM had layoffs last week. This week, it's going to be Sun Microsystems.It's a tough time to be selling servers at Sun.The news of...
Microsoft Encarta Will Shut Down
Microsoft will be shutting down Encarta, that boon to high school researchers everywhere, by the end of 2009. The encyclopedia, which started in 1993,...
Marketers, SMBs Differ on Web Strategy: Report
A report from Bredin Business Information says major marketers continue to move online to reach small to medium-size businesses, despite midmarket preferences for some...