Monthly Archives: December 2009
Scammers Tapping Into Holiday Drear
With the worldwide economy still mired in a semi-historic slump, some savvy cyber-attackers are departing from the usual raft of Santa Claus e-cards and...
IBM Adds Portable Data Centers to Its Catalog
IBM has added portable modular data centers to its long list of products and services.Eighteen months after it quietly released them into the market...
Spring Design Fails to Stop Sales of Barnes and Noble’s Nook E-Reader
Spring Design, creator of the upcoming Alex e-reader, found itself suffering a legal defeat on Dec. 1 when the U.S. District Court for the...
Let’s Make a Deal: Broadcaster Spectrum for Sale?
The Federal Communications Commission opened a new line of inquiry Dec. 2 seeking public comment on how to obtain more spectrum for mobile broadband...
Twitter Co-founder Squares Up with Mobile Payment System
Payment systems for Web-enabled smartphones have been something of mythical unicorn in high technology, but a new company hopes to change that with a...
Intel Launches Atom SDK Beta for Netbook App Developers
Intel announced Dec. 2 that has launched a beta version of its Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit for the Microsoft Windows and...
ATandT, Verizon Drop Lawsuits, Verizon to Keep Airing Ads
AT&T and Verizon appear to have agreed to disagree.The rival mobile carriers have dropped the lawsuits they had filed against each other, according to...
Microsoft Sells Folio, NXT to Rocket Software
Microsoft will divest itself of Folio and NXT, products that facilitate the management of online content, in a deal with Rocket Software, which develops...
Sprint: Telco’s Law Enforcement Cooperation Misrepresented
Blogger and Internet privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian caused a stir Dec. 1 with the disclosure that Sprint has opened a new portal to help...
Microsoft Bing Now Features Updated Maps, Twitter Feed
Microsoft announced on Dec. 2 that it was releasing new features for Bing, its search engine, set to roll out over the next few...