Monthly Archives: May 2009
Dell Opts for Via Nano Chips in New Servers
Dell engineers, tasked with creating a server that offered full functionality but that could fit into highly dense Web hosting environments, are turning to...
ATandT Claims Smartphone Users Are Choosing Its Service
AT&T is claiming that twice as many smartphone users are choosing its service in the United States compared to competing options from the likes...
Atlantis Crew Installs New Gyroscopes on Hubble
It didn't happen easily, but the space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts installed new gyroscopes May 15 on the Hubble Space Telescope. Working in extremely tight...
Google News Updates with YouTube, Experiences Shutdown
Google made a few changes to its Google News service, incorporating YouTube videos and a few aesthetic adjustments into the page, a day after...
Ceaseless Threats Pervade Web, Don’t Ebb
The massive malware mine that is McAfee released its quarterly Threats Report earlier this week and, as usual, there's enough data therein to launch...
NetApp, Data Domain Doing Well in the ‘Dedupe’ Market
Data deduplication, which began getting serious attention from the enterprise IT industry in late 2006 when EMC bought Avamar Technologies, has become a rapidly...
Is Measuring IT Performance Culture-Dependent?
It may be culture-dependent, especially if you are trying to be honest about how your IT shop and the leaders running it really operate....
Google Updates Java Support for App Engine
Google has updated its Java support for Google App Engine, delivering a new software development kit with fixes and improvements.Version 1.2.1 of the App...
Opalis Eases Management of Amazon Cloud Resources
Opalis Software wants to make it easier for businesses to manage the cloud computing resources they use in Amazon's EC2 environment.Opalis May 13 announced...
Microsoft Virtual Earth Used for OnStar
Microsoft Virtual Earth's 3-D aerial imagery is being paired with OnStar's GPS location service, enhancing the latter in delivering location information to emergency responders."If...