Monthly Archives: April 2009
INSIDE WIRELESS: Major Themes at CTIA Wireless 2009
When I first arrived in Las Vegas for the annual CTIA Wireless show, I thought it might be just like the old days, with...
Nokia Enriches Developers at Nokia Developer Summit 2009
MONTE CARLO-At its Nokia Developer Summit here, Nokia announced its strategy to turn its Ovi application vision into a platform, delivered a software development...
Opalis Brings Cloud, Virtualization Automation to Microsoft System Center
Opalis Software is bringing greater IT process automation capabilities to Microsoft's suite of system management software.At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas April...
Apple Hit with Censorship Lawsuit
Apple's shutdown demand to a noncommercial, public Internet wiki discussion on making iPods and iPhones compatible with media management software such as WinAmp and...
Amazon Buys Lexcycle, Gains iPhone E-Book Software
Online retailer Amazon has quietly purchased a Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas-based startup called Lexcycle, which had developed an application named Stanza that allowed...
Sun Reports $201M Quarterly Loss
Sun Microsystems, in the process of becoming the property of Oracle by the end of summer 2009, reported its quarterly earnings April 28. To...
Report: April Brings Boost to Small Business Confidence
A report from Discover Financial Services that surveyed the economic confidence among small business owners in the United States rose to its highest level...
How Google, CDC, Twitter, Wikipedia Are Tracking Swine Flu
How Google, CDC, Twitter, Wikipedia Are Tracking Swine Flu
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Google Flu Trends uses aggregated search queries (think people typing in the words "swine flu")...
WhiteHouse.gov Viewership Soaring
Within seconds of President Obama's swearing-in ceremony, the new president's media team wiped out the Bush administration's Website and launched its own. The first...
Microsoft Changes Windows 7 Feature to Fight Malware
Microsoft is building a small but important change into Windows 7 to help slow the spread of malware.According to Microsoft, the company is changing...