Monthly Archives: February 2010
Google Maps Labs Looks to Test New Zoom, Aerial Views
Google one day is going to have Labs for everything it does. Well, maybe not, but the company Feb. 12 formally introduced Google Maps...
Microsoft to Unveil Windows Mobile 7 in Barcelona, Says Report
Microsoft will unveil its Windows Mobile 7 smartphone operating system during a Feb. 15 presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, according to...
Google Buzz Must Connect to Facebook, Twitter to Thrive
Social media experts aren't sold that Google Buzz is going to take much market share from Facebook and Twitter unless it adequately connects with...
Video Game Sales Slide in January
Sales of video game hardware and software remained sluggish in the United States, as overall sales fell 13 percent in January to $1.17 billion,...
Google Plugging Privacy Holes in Google Buzz, Eyeing Stand-alone Version
Less than one day after Google improved the privacy controls in its Google Buzz social service, the company said it is plugging more privacy...
Google Dumps Aardvark in Google Labs, but to What End?
Google confirmed Feb. 11 that it had indeed acquired social search engine Aardvark, a rare departure from the stock "we have nothing to share...
Check Out Free eSeminar Feb. 23 on Managed Transfers
Here at The Station, we write a lot about data residing in storage arrays, servers, the cloud, flash thumb drives, etc. Because data moves...
U.S. Gov Funds Training Grants to Health IT
As part of the economic stimulus funds from 2009, the U.S. Health and Human Services is upping the ante on electronic health records (EHR)...
Intel Rolls Out ‘Jasper Forest’ Xeons
Intel is bringing its "Nehalem" Xeon architecture to the embedded, networking and storage spaces with the release of its "Jasper Forest" processor family.The new...
How to Effectively Use Cloud Computing
The media, as well as the market at large, have latched onto the term "cloud computing" with a vengeance. Admittedly, the basic premise of...