Monthly Archives: December 2009
H-1B Visa Quota Reached for 2009
Despite an early slump in U.S. employer demand for H-1B visas, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Dec. 22 it had reached the...
iPhone 3G Tops Nielsen List of Most Used Mobile Phones
The Apple iPhone 3G is the most-used mobile phone in the United States, according to Dec. 21 data published on the blog of the...
BlackBerry Users Hit with 2nd Outage in 7 Days
Research In Motion BlackBerry handsets experienced e-mail and Internet outages on the evening of Dec. 22 and into the early morning hours the following...
10 Things Microsoft Did Wrong in 2009
Although Microsoft did some things right in 2009, the software giant also made some mistakes. The year was a story of ups and downs...
OLPC Unveils Radical Laptop Design for 2012
One Laptop Per Child, the organization that is aiming to make low-cost laptops available to children around the globe, is laying out its product...
Netbook Sales Will Slow After Significant Growth in 2009
When 2009 is said and done, notebook PC revenues are likely to reach $109 billion - a figure down approximately 7 percent year-over-year, according...
NetApp Predicts the Top 10 Storage Trends for 2010
NetApp Predicts the Top 10 Storage Trends for 2010
NetApp started out in the early 1990s as a "nice little file server company," in the...
Wi-Fi Could Serve To Shore Up Wireless Networks Sagging from Smartphone Use
Frost &Sullivan analysts estimate that 250 million smartphones will ship globally in 2010, an indication that a lot more devices will be banging away...
Microsoft Prepares to Meet Word Injunction
Microsoft said Dec. 22 it is moving quickly to comply with an injunction barring the world largest software maker from selling copies of Word...
Linux Vendors Need To Get Off the Stick to Compete with Windows
Last month, I wrote a column about how our industry's tightening embrace of virtualization and Web-based applications is making it easier than ever to...