Monthly Archives: April 2009
Sun Revamps Sales Organization as IBM Buyout Looms
Sun Microsystems has finalized significant changes to its sales and service organization, resulting in a more centrally structured chain of command-a significant move away...
Apple Tips Hand at Nehalem-Based Xserve
Apple apparently gave customers a quick glimpse at plans to start selling Xserve servers powered by Intel's new Nehalem EP processors.According to reports, Apple's...
Google May Be Evil, but Not Wicked
Google just released an application for the G1 smartphone from HTC that helps sight-impaired people dial their phones. It turns out, of course, that...
Intel, GE Invest $250 Million in Health IT Partnership
NEW YORK - Intel and General Electric will invest $250 million over the next five years in a joint partnership to develop health care...
Amazon Uses Hadoop for New Cloud Computing Initiative
Amazon Web Services is using the open-source Apache Hadoop distributed computing technology to make it easier for users to access large amounts of computing...
Intel Atom Chip Propels Company Against AMD
"Landslide" feels inadequate to describe the margin by which Intel beat other microprocessor companies for market share in 2008, according to new data from...
Microsoft Warns of Attacks on PowerPoint Vulnerability
Hackers are launching attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, the company's popular presentation program.Microsoft described the attacks in an advisory as...
Wi-Fi Is a Smartphone Must
At the recent CTIA trade show in Las Vegas, representatives of the Wi-Fi Alliance-the marketing body that certifies Wi-Fi devices for interoperability-pulled me aside...
The Confounding Case of Conficker
An interesting bird this Conficker. A botnet, a worm, a USB infection... a media darling and technological masterpiece, yet, a wraith whose true intentions...
Breaks for Facebook, Web Help Productivity
A recent study of 300 people in Australia appears to show that taking short, online breaks during the workday helps to give the mind...