Monthly Archives: November 2009
Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris Now on Verizon Wireless Network
On Nov. 6, Verizon Wireless officially joined the competitive fray surrounding Google's Android mobile operating system. The U.S. carrier launched not only the Motorola...
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Could Expand Beyond U.S., Says Ballmer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a trip to Tokyo that the search-and-advertising partnership between his company and Yahoo could expand beyond the United...
Dynamic Network Services Offers CDN Manager
Dynamic Network Services, a Domain Name System provider, announced the release of Content Delivery Network Manager, aimed at cost-conscious companies that require Website traffic...
Twitter Begins Its Retweet, Stymies Spammers on Trends
Twitter Nov. 5 began the slow rollout of its retweet button and said it is going tighten up its trend technology, the latter a...
Google Sidewiki Under Fire from Reframe It
Today I posted this piece about Web annotation startup Reframe It, which believes Google's Sidewiki looks and feels a little too much like its...
Caspio Releases Web Application Platform Bridge 6.5
Caspio has announced a new version of Caspio Bridge, a cloud computing platform for creating Web applications without programming. Version 6.5 now features enhanced...
eWEEK at 25: Virtualization’s Impact Spans Decades
Virtualization may seem new, but it was around when PC Week made its debut. The roots of today's data center virtualization are easily traced...
Space Debris Threatens Space Station
NASA informed the crew of the International Space Station Nov. 6 that the spacecraft could be menaced by a piece of Russian Cosmos space...
eWEEK at 25: Wi-Fi Has Gone from Extravagance to Mission-Critical Enabler
On Christmas Day 2000, I had to tear myself away from family festivities to get back to Foster City, Calif., the then-home of both...
eWEEK at 25: The Web Changed Everything
Sixteen years ago, I started out as the newest analyst at what was then called PC Week Labs. Most of the important technologies of...