Monthly Archives: July 2009
Palm Pre Sets European Launch
Palm said July 7 the Palm Pre will make its European debut by the holiday shopping season. The first smartphone based on the new...
Sprint, Best Buy Offering 99-Cent HP Netbook
For the price of a fast-food burger, Sprint and Best Buy are offering a netbook-provided customers sign a two-year data contract along with the...
Google Apps Exits Beta, Poaches Fairchild Semiconductor from IBM
Google July 7 took its core Google Apps out of beta and said Fairchild Semiconductor has moved its 5,500 employees to Google Apps Premier...
U.S. Spectrum: Who’s Counting?
New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski likes to talk about a data-driven decisions on technology policy. A U.S. Senate panel will consider legislation...
Was Microsoft Slow to Patch Video ActiveX Vulnerability?
The unpatched vulnerability in the Video ActiveX control that Microsoft has warned about was reported to the company in 2008, but one of the...
Sony Enters Netbook Market with Vaio W-Series
Electronics giant Sony belatedly enters the crowded netbook market with the announcement of its Viao W-series "mini notebook," which goes on sale in Japan...
Goldman Sachs Software Theft: When Employees Go Greedy
Office Space this is not. Some companies may not enforce confidentiality agreements, but not finanicial giant Goldman Sachs.Some employees give employers good reason to...
Facebook Gets Big Numbers in Coverage of Jackson Memorial
Much of the world stopped what it was doing July 7 to watch the Michael Jackson memorial event in downtown Los Angeles on live...
Open-E Announces Data Storage Software Version Six
Storage management software specialist Open-E announced the availability of its sixth generation Data Storage Software (DSS) V6 IP-Storage operating system. The new DSS V6...
Asian Developers Moving to Cloud Computing
Developers in the Asia Pacific region are increasingly moving to cloud computing, according to a recent survey by Evans Data.More than one in four...