Monthly Archives: April 2009
Facebook to Open Feeds to Developers
Facebook is expected to announce its plans to open up its feeds to third-party developers so they can build services atop them. The announcement...
Swine Flu: Can Social Networking Fan a Pandemic?
Some say the current swine flu outbreak is a prime example of where technology and the enhanced social interaction it enables can go awry.The...
Infrastructure Security Trapped at Dangerous Crossroads
The red lights are flashing, the gates are coming down, the train is approaching, but traffic still hasn't moved out of the way.IT systems,...
Apple Moves Closer to Snow Leopard Release
Apple's operating system developers are hard at work pushing to get out the next major version of the Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, as...
Yahoo Demolishes GeoCities 10 Years, $3.6 Billion Later
Yahoo has pulled the plug on GeoCities, which it acquired in 1999 for $3.6 billion in the hopes that millions of users would use...
Security Vulnerabilities on Display at RSA
The RSA Conference is much more vendor-driven than shows such as Black Hat and ShmooCon, but there is always room for talk about security...
Hollywood Calls RealNetworks DVD Copying a Threat
RealNetworks was in federal court in San Francisco on April 24, squaring off against Hollywood attorneys over RealDVD, a $29.99 software application that allows...
Hathaway at RSA: Obama Admin’s Missed Opportunity
Based on what we've seen from our new President thus far, one of the Obama Administration's top priorities is, and will be, taking advantage...
IBM-Sun Bottom Line: McNealy Had Oracle on Deck
The Station has been asked a few times from readers about what really went on behind the scenes during the IBM-Sun Microsystems acquisition talks...
Microsoft’s Best Products Are Now Their Most Profitable
With the Microsoft earnings report this week, the big news was the first ever year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue for the software giant.But to...