Monthly Archives: November 2009
Barnes and Noble’s Nook E-Reader Delayed
Barnes & Noble suggested that demand for its new Nook e-reader would push back the shipping date for some pre-orders from November into the...
Making Sense of 10.2 Percent Unemployment
Many economists have been expecting overall unemployment numbers to expand above 10 percent for much of 2009. The U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday...
Windows 7 Sells Well, but Microsoft Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet
At least we know one thing, numerically speaking: Windows 7 isn't Vista.Microsoft received a bit of good news this week when a report by...
Rumors of a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S Alight on Droid’s Big Launch Day
On the day Verizon Wireless launched the Motorola Droid, its best shot at an iPhone killer, rumors emerged of plans between Apple and AT&T...
Space Station Prepares for Busy November
The crew of the International Space Station is gearing up for a busy November. On Nov. 12, the MRM2 (Russian Mini-Research Module 2) is...
Microsoft Trumps Google, Yahoo in Total Time Spent Online
People are spending more time on the Internet-searching more, shopping more and perhaps even working more online.ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours...
Beatles Albums Removed from Download Site BlueBeat
Internet music site BlueBeat.com, which bills itself as trying to "stop the insanity of overpriced online music," is no longer carrying the entire catalog...
Verizon Launches Low-Key Droid Event in Times Square, with Big Hopes
Verizon must have booked its Times Square promotion of the Droid smartphone well before the Yankees won the World Series, or it might have...
Google Dashboard Provides Too Much Info and Yet Not Enough
News Analysis: With Google Dashboard, Google again finds itself in a no-win situation. In a utopian world, the search engine would be roundly praised...
Best Buy to Install Google Mobile App, but Not for Droid, iPhone
Google Nov. 5 partnered with Best Buy to let the retailer install Google Mobile applications on smartphones that it sells to consumers right in...