Monthly Archives: August 2009
IBM, CalTech Use DNA for Future Microchips
IBM researchers are turning to DNA to create even smaller and more powerful computer chips.IBM announced Aug. 17 that its scientists, teaming with others...
Lenovo Offers Battery Replacement for Specific ThinkPad Laptops
The batteries in a few Lenovo ThinkPad laptop models aren't holding their own, and now the company is offering to replace them.The batteries, which...
Google Testing New Storage System for ‘Caffeine’
Google has been ahead of its time in more than just Web search and online consumer tools. Out of sheer necessity, it's also been...
Verizon Wireless Completes First Successful LTE 4G Data Calls
Verizon Wireless is a step closer to its promise of offering nationwide Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G coverage by 2013. On Aug. 14, the...
Most Twitter Feeds Just Nonsense, Report Says
In a report certain to shock few, media analytics firm Pear Research took 2,000 tweets from the public timeline (in English and in the...
Securing Virtual Environments in the Face of Audits
Virtualization adoption continues to grow, often outpacing efforts to secure virtual environments, analysts say.The most common virtualization management problems, such as virtual sprawl and...
TomTom Debuts Navigation App on iPhone App Store
TomTom, the Dutch maker of automotive navigation systems, debuted a navigation application on Apple's popular iPhone application store on Saturday, but it's not for...
Businesses Turn to Managed Services, Report Finds
In a struggling economy, it turns out small businesses and enterprises alike are turning to alternative measures in their IT departments to help stay...
Samsung Launches Mobile SDK, Smartphone App Development Contest
Samsung Mobile Innovator, a project that aims to provide developers with the tools, technical content and support they require to create rich applications and...
Union Pacific Railroad Moving from Mainframes to Blades
In the 1960s, Union Pacific became the first railroad in the world to schedule each shipment at the car level and automate the tracking...