Monthly Archives: April 2009
Google’s YouTube Investment Looking Less Stupid
Google's YouTube acquisition is looking less and less like a financial boondoggle every day.YouTube is now selling ads against 9% of its content, versus...
Intel, Qualcomm Led a Declining Semiconductor Market in 2008
Worldwide semiconductor revenue fell by more than 5 percent in 2008-this is the finding of Gartner's annual semiconductor market share analysis. Revenue for 2008...
Apple Trumps Microsoft, Google as Tech Monopolist
With mergers and company failures regularly in the news, the amount of healthy competition in the technology world is clearly decreasing. This, of course,...
Report: SMB Application Software Market Growing
A report by New York-based consulting firm AMI-Partners predicts the North American small and midsize business market for application software and services is poised...
Before Grid Hack Reports, NERC Advises Industry on Cyber Assets
The day before reports of foreign spies penetrating the U.S. electrical grid hit the news, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. advised energy companies...
ATT Offers $100,000 Reward for Conviction of Bay Area Telecom Vandals
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AT&T has pledged a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who cut underground fiber-optic telephone and...
IBM Service Helps Make Supply Chains Green
IBM is offering a service that is designed to help businesses and government agencies ensure that their suppliers are green and ethical.The IBM Sustainable...
BlackBerry App World, Nokia Ovi Store Capitalize on Apple App Store Shortcomings
One of the advantages of not being first to market with a particular kind of solution is that you can sit back and evaluate...
Mobile Broadband Growth Hits Major Slide
The economy seems to have taken a major bite out of the mobile PC data card business, with new subscriber growth plunging in the...
Updated Conficker Ropes Victims into Rogue Anti-virus Scam
Conficker's latest move may be tied to a scheme to lure users into downloading fake anti-virus software.Security researchers monitoring the Conficker worm's activities say...