Monthly Archives: April 2009
Apple Downsized Apple Store Jobs
All may be solid in Apple earnings land, but it appears that retail employees of Apple's ultra-cool Apple Stores were downsized. This makes sense...
Report: Verizon and Apple in iPhone Negotiations
While exclusive Apple iPhone carrier AT&T fights to extend its exclusive contract, USA Today reports "people familiar with the situation" say Verizon Wireless, which...
Sun Successfully Defends Itself Against $100M Patent Suit
Sun Microsystems received some welcome news April 27 when a jury in Marshall, Texas, turned down a complicated 3-year-old patent infringement and trade secrets...
Microsoft Expands Online Services Globally
More than 4,000 solution providers are registered to sell Microsoft Online applications, and until today these services were only available in 19 countries. The...
Dell Files Lawsuit Against Former Reseller TigerDirect
Dell's April 17 lawsuit filed in New York district court accuses TigerDirect of violations of its resale contract including trademark infringement, misleading representation, unfair...
HP Unveils ProCurve Firewall, Security Ambitions
The pantheon of major security players includes the likes of Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, IBM, Symantec, McAfee and even Microsoft. Missing among the noted...
Linux Cluster Vendor Penguin Making Its Move
When Charles Wuischpard came to Penguin Computing in January 2007 as president of worldwide field operations, he found a company that lacked focus, had...
Why Some Developers Think the Palm Pre Could Upstage the iPhone
Will the Palm Pre be the device to challenge not only the coolness, but the functionality and elegance of the iPhone? Some developers respond...
Netgear, Mailshell Offer SMBs Spam Filtering Integration
Networking firm Netgear and anti-spam and anti-phishing company Mailshell have announced an agreement to integrate Mailshell's small-footprint engine for OEMs into Netgear's ProSecure UTM...
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer Caught in Vulnerability Web
The Google Chrome Web browser and Microsoft Internet Explorer have found themselves at the center of a security issue that could lead to cross-site...