Monthly Archives: June 2009
Google Books Gets an Upgrade as Yahoo Feeds the SearchMonkey
Google June 18 improved its Google Books service to make the virtual book service more like the way users consume paper books. Yahoo meanwhile...
Citrix Challenges VMware with XenServer 5.5
Citrix Systems is releasing the latest version of its XenServer platform, less than a month after rival VMware began shipping its vSphere 4.0 offering.XenServer...
Kerry Questions Exclusive Cell Phone Deals
Grassroots and consumer groups continued their pressure against exclusive deals between wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers June 17 with a major assist from...
Moore’s Law Reaching End of Life, Study Says
Moore's Law, which has driven the microprocessor industry for the past 40 years, has about five more years of relevancy before the cost of...
Microsoft CEO Ballmer Says Bing Must Be ‘Tenacious’ Against Google
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, may have gained market-share during its first few weeks of release, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sees a long...
City Outsources Data Centers to Unisys, Saves $18 Million
Any time a company proves it can save seven figures' worth of cash for a client, that's good news. According to the city of...
Is Opera Unite a Good Idea Done Badly for Google to Do Better with...
Chris Messina, who blogs as FactoryJoe and is an advocate of open-source technologies such as Firefox and Flock, positively shredded Opera Unite in a...
Microsoft Bing Performed Strongly in Second Week, Says comScore
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, performed strongly in its second week of release, according to research firm comScore, which saw its daily penetration among...
Google Apps Synch Tool Breaks Windows Desktop Search
Underscoring the trickiness of getting Web-based and desktop applications to work together, Microsoft said June 16 that Google's Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook synchronization...
HP, VMware Team Up on Virtualization Management
Hewlett-Packard and VMware are looking to make it easier for businesses to manage their virtual and physical client and server environments.The two companies at...