Monthly Archives: August 2009
Facebook Generation Carries Social Software in the Enterprise
Despite hype surrounding the use of wikis, blogs, social networks and other tools in the workplace, social software in businesses is still more of...
10 Microsoft Applications That Bit the Dust (or Soon Will)
10 Microsoft Applications That Bit the Dust (or Soon Will)
by Nicholas Kolakowski
Name: EncartaStatus: Discontinued
Originally launched in 1993, the first version of Encarta incorporated the...
Microsoft Files Trademark Application for Retail Store Logo
Microsoft on July 28 filed a logo for its chain of retail stores with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The logo has...
New Intel SDK Aids Media Application Developers
Intel made a bunch of announcements at the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) show, including...
Mac OS X’s Reputation for Security Wearing Thin
Mac OS X is considered by some to be an extremely secure operating system. Those people claim that thanks to its many security features,...
Does Google Want On2 for a Gaming Console?
The blogosphere abounds with questions about Google's Aug. 5 purchase, a $106.5 million stock bid for video compression software maker On2 Technologies. The leading...
GPS, Wi-Fi Are Hot Commodities in the Smartphone Market
In the smartphone world, GPS and Wi-Fi are hot, and rich Internet application and widget frameworks are not, says a new study from researcher...
Sony Unveils Party-Shot Accessory, CMOS Sensor Cameras
Consumer electronics giant Sony announced this week a digital camera accessory-the model IPT-DS1, a camera dock featuring Party-shot technology-and the first two digital cameras...
Read in Style with Sony’s Sleek Reader Pocket, Touch Edition E-Book Readers
Read in Style with Sony's Sleek Reader Pocket, Touch Edition E-Book Readers
by Michelle Maisto
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The Sony Reader Pocket Edition is available in silver, blue...
Hitachi Lets Fly the Spruce Goose of HDDs — a 2TB Drive
And so the race for capaciousness continues. The data storage company with the longest official name, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, claimed Aug. 6 that...