Monthly Archives: July 2009
Microsoft CEO Ballmer Sounds Off on Google, Apple, Netbooks
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the opportunity of his annual Financial Analyst Meeting July 30 to defend his company and lash back at opponents...
NASA Launches Near-Earth Objects Website
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory launched a new Website July 29 providing a centralized information resource on the asteroids and comets that, relatively speaking, whiz...
U.K. University to Buy IBM Supercomputer
Researchers at a university in England will be able to use an IBM supercomputer that will rank among the top 100 fastest systems in...
Senate Panel Takes Pass on REAL ID
The Senate Homeland Security Committee took the first step July 29 to dismantle the controversial REAL ID Act of 2005, approving legislation to effectively...
Samsung and LG Lead Stabilizing Mobile Phone Market
Global handset shipments fell by 8 percent in the second quarter of 2009, totaling 273 million units, compared with the 297 million units from...
Will Corporate Windows 7 Adoption Beat Vista’s?
Windows 7 is now less than three months away, and Microsoft is doing all it can to build buzz. Companies that are growing tired...
Intel Predicts Microsoft Windows 7 Will See Rapid Adoption
Sean Maloney, executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for Intel, said at the Intel Technology Summit at July 29 that he...
Zend Delivers New PHP Tools
Zend Technologies, also known as the PHP company, has announced a new version of its open-source Zend Framework, a platform for building PHP applications."The...
Nissan Developing iPhone App for Electric Car Owners
The Apple iPhone is great for e-mailing, messaging, chatting, watching videos and staying in touch with colleagues and friends. Now, Nissan is looking to...
This Week in Emerging Technology – July 29
Here are the emerging technologies stories for the week of July 27th.4G Network Tests - Verizon announced that they will launch tests of their...