Monthly Archives: April 2009
Apple Issues Formal Apology for ‘Baby Shaker’ App
Apple issued an apology for its "Baby Shaker" App, in which users could "shake" a virtual infant using the iPhone, a day after removing...
Oracle-Sun Deal Gets Mixed Reaction from MySQL Community
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-All a reporter had to do on the final day of the MySQL 2009 Conference here at the Hyatt Regency was walk...
U.S. Cellular Offering HTC Touch Pro
Chicago-based telecommunications company U.S. Cellular, the fifth-largest network operator in the United States, began offering the HTC Touch Pro smartphone on its Website this...
FBI Spyware Could Look Like Your Average Trojan
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI has released some details and history of a spyware program it has used...
Microsoft Posts First-Ever Quarterly Revenue Decline
Economic gloom once again has descended on Microsoft, which reported disappointing fiscal third quarter results. The sales figures are yet another sign that enterprise...
Survey: SMBs Still Positive on IT Spending
According to the latest survey from Compass Intelligence on small to medium-size businesses, midmarket companies are negatively affected, but not defeated, by the current...
DRAM, NAND Flash Memory Revenue Unlikely to Recover in 2009
Revenue from the sale of DRAM and NAND flash is expected to rebound a bit this year, but a full recovery of the worldwide...
Books, DVD Bartering Sites Aim to Beat Amazon, Recession
As the recession forces people and businesses to take increased measures to slow their spending, sites that traffic in books, DVDs and other staples...
Hubble Service Call Launch May Be Moved Up
The launch for NASA's latest mission to the Hubble Space Telescope may be moved up by a day, NASA officials said April 23. Instead...
Sun Moves Glassfish to the Cloud with Amazon EC2
Sun Microsystems has announced that its GlassFish Portfolio and open-source identity management offerings - OpenSSO and OpenDS software - are now available via the...