Monthly Archives: August 2009
OpenAjax Alliance Delivers Secure Mashup Software
The OpenAjax Alliance, a group of companies, open-source projects and organizations dedicated to delivering interoperable AJAX technologies, announced on July 27 the "approval and...
Google Search Share at 67.5% as Global Search Soars 41%
More than 113 billion searches were conducted in July this year, marking a 41 percent increase from July 2008, according to the latest global...
Indian Trade Group Proposes New H-1B Visa Approach
The Indian software industry association Nasscom is proposing that the U.S. Congress create a new category of visas to replace the increasingly controversial H-1B...
Apple to Host iPod Media Event on Sept. 9
Apple will host a media event on Sept. 9 in San Francisco, most likely to roll out its new line of iPods. A brightly...
Notebook PC Market Passes 38 Million Units, Driven by Netbooks
The total notebook PC market performed well in the second quarter of 2009, with unit numbers passing 38 million and mini-notebook PCs, or netbooks,...
Iomega Unveils 2TB SMB Storage Appliance for $700
SAN FRANCISCO -- At VMworld 2009, Iomega demonstrated publicly for the first time on Aug. 31 a new four-drive, network-attached storage appliance for small...
Revised Bill Still Gives Obama Unprecedented Cyber-security Powers
Sen. Jay Rockefeller's revised Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is creating as much controversy as his original effort in April did. Both versions give the...
AIS Delivers Rugged Tablet PC with Intel Atom Inside
American Industrial Systems, a designer and manufacturer of rugged solutions for vertical markets, grew its hardware offerings on Aug. 31 with the addition of...
Open Source Revitalized Enterprise Software, Says SugarCRM CEO
SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin, in an Aug. 26 interview with eWEEK, suggested that "open source has revitalized the enterprise software space" and that the...
Nothing Sunny About PC Blu-ray Drive Adoption
Sales of consumer Blu-ray players are quickly rising, the players' prices are quickly dropping, and the number of movies now available in high definition...