Monthly Archives: May 2009
Google Latitude Gets Personal on Google Talk, Gmail Chat
Google announced on May 4 two new applications for its Google Latitude service, which allows users to both post their own real-time location on...
Adobe Preps Patch for Zero-Day Vulnerability for Reader, Acrobat
Adobe Systems is planning to release a patch for a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat next week.This is the second zero-day flaw...
Lime Wire Responds to Congressional Critics
Peer-to-peer company Lime Wire assured lawmakers May 1 that its latest software version does not allow for inadvertent file sharing. Lime Wire made headlines...
Microsoft Launches Windows Azure Cloud Developer Contest
To help highlight the capabilities of its Windows Azure cloud and the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft has announced a contest inviting developers to create...
BlackBerry Curve 8900 Coming to ATandT in Summer 2009
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is coming to AT&T's network in the "early summer" of 2009 and users who purchase an unlimited data plan...
Fujitsu Finalizes HDD Assets Transfer to Toshiba
Device makers Toshiba and Fujitsu said May 2 that they have finalized details on an agreement for Toshiba to take over Fujitsu's multinational hard-drive...
Nvidia Offers Preconfigured GPU-Based Supercomputing Cluster
Nvidia is looking to make it easier for researchers and IT administrators to add computing capability to their data centers while keeping down energy...
Who Knew Microsoft Still Had It in for IBM?
Microsoft has launched a new site that asks, "Who Knew?" as part of an aggressive campaign to paint Windows as the optimal platform for...
BlackBerry Overthrows Apple iPhone in First Quarter
When it comes to the smartphone wars, Research In Motion scored a bit of a coup in the first quarter of 2009, according to...
Could the Hulu, Disney Deal Create a Tangled Video Web?
Competition in the television- and movie-fueled online video streaming business is getting more and more intense. And the personal involvements of Apple co-founder Steve...