Monthly Archives: February 2010
EU Wants Google Street View Image Retention Cut to Six Months
The European Union called for Google to provide people advance notice when its Street View vehicles are roving European streets to take pictures and...
Facebook Gains News Feed Patent to Secure Its Social Network
Facebook Feb. 23 secured a patent for technology related to its vaunted News Feed, securing the foundation of the social network for years to...
Apple Storage Monitoring: There’s an iPhone App for That
Torrance, Calif.-based Active Storage, which specializes in storage for Apple systems, has come out with a new version of its iPhone app that monitors...
Google Dominates in Mobile Search, Touts Mobile First Rule
More than 9 percent of all page views on the mobile Web in the United States come through Google's search engine in January, according...
Twitter Phishing Scammers Have Busy Week
Phishers targeting Twitter have had a long week.In the past several days, a series of the scams have hit the microblogging service, snaring among...
IBM Takes the Pulse of Its Smarter Planet Strategy at Tivoli Conference
IBM Takes the Pulse of Its Smarter Planet Strategy at Tivoli Conference
IBM Takes the Pulse of Its Smarter Planet Strategy at Tivoli Conference By...
Microsoft Pulls Back on Cryptome Takedown Request over Leaked Document
Microsoft withdrew its request to have Cryptome.org, a site that posts leaked documents from corporations and governments, taken down after it published an internal...
iPhone Platform Gets 3M Health Care Dictation App
3M Health Information Systems is releasing a 3M Mobile Dictation Software for the iPhone platform.The mobile application, announced Feb. 25, enables physicians to dictate...
Intel Migrates to Windows 7, with Compatibility Issues
Intel's long-planned internal move to Windows 7 and 64-bit computing involves a lot of "heavy lifting," according to an Intel engineer in a lengthy...
Will Post-Recession IT Spending Lead to Jobs?
CIOs and CTOs plan to spend their budgets when the recession is over on the IT purchases they had to put on hold in...