Monthly Archives: October 2009
Microsoft Bing Slips Against Google, but Search Fight Continues
Microsoft's Bing search engine saw its September share of the U.S. market slip to 8.5 percent from 9.6 percent in August, while Google's share...
Tense Times for Web Phone Apps Google Voice, Skype
News Analysis: What is happening to two of our favorite Web phone applications? They're being threatened, but in markedly different ways.First, Google Voice, the...
Amazon Settles Kindle Suit, but Will Other Issues Follow?
Amazon.com settled a lawsuit leveled against it by a Michigan student and another plaintiff, who claimed that the online retailer's deletion of George Orwell's...
NASA Shoots the Moon
NASA's first laser ranging effort to track a spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit on a daily basis is producing distance measurements accurate to about 4...
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy
Add Mozilla to the list of vendors exasperated by Google Chrome Frame, a plug-in to essentially let users run Google's Chrome Web browser in...
Newcomer Avere Builds Intelligence into Tiered Storage
Pittsburgh-based storage newcomer Avere Systems introduced a series of new-generation NAS devices that dynamically move data between standard hard drive and solid-state drive...
Homeland Security Hiring 1,000 Cybersecurity Technology Jobs
As part of the kick of for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced that it will hire 1,000 top...
Survey: Microsoft SQL Server Tops All Databases in Emerging Markets
According to a recent Evans Data study, Microsoft SQL Server is the most used database in the emerging markets of China, India, Eastern Europe,...
Nvidia Launches Nexus Platform for Microsoft Visual Studio Developers
Nvidia has announced its new Nvidia Nexus platform, the company's development environment for massively parallel computing that is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio.Nvidia is...
Google Project 10100 and 16 Big Ideas to Change the World
Google Project 10100 and 16 Big Ideas to Change the World
by Clint Boulton
Public Transport
Designed to help reduce our carbon footprint, this idea includes the...