Monthly Archives: February 2010
Apple Issues iPhone, iPod Touch Security Updates
Apple has closed five security holes impacting the iPhone and iPod Touch that left users open to attack.Of the five vulnerabilities fixed by the...
Layoff Watch: Telco Cuts, Long-Term Unemployed Find New Jobs
Job cuts across all industries have reached a five-month high at 71,482, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Retail, telecommunications and...
Apple iPad Driving New Interest in Tablet PCs, Says Report
With Apple's Jan. 27 introduction of the Apple iPad, the iPhone maker revived an industry, ABI Research said in a Feb. 2 report, predicting...
Intel Readies Six-Core ‘Westmere’ Server Chip
Intel is looking to quickly expand the number of its 32-nanometer "Westmere" processors, and will offer a six-core version for both two-socket servers and...
Google Wave Gets Project Management Via Wrike.com
Google Wave has been in the wild for months, and Google has confirmed to me that more than 1 million people are actively using...
Intel Ships Tukwila Itanium Chip
Intel is finally shipping the much delayed "Tukwila," the latest generation of its high-end Itanium processor.In a blog posting Feb. 2, Intel officials said...
Facebook, Twitter Trigger Enterprise Social Software Use
Thanks to the influence of Facebook and Twitter, social network services may usurp e-mail as the main method for communications among 20 percent of...
REVIEW: SlickEdit 2009 Is Feature-Packed, but Pricey
I've always been the type of programmer who's used two editors: one for quick edits and another for larger-scale work. On Windows, my preference...
How to Safely Enable Enterprise 2.0 Applications in the Workplace
Enterprise 2.0 applications have become the poster children of a flat world. They provide rapid and agile collaboration, sharing and information integration capabilities never...
Samsung Green DRAM Cuts Laptop Power Requirements
Solid-state disk provider Samsung announced Feb. 2 that it has successfully completed customer evaluations of the industry's first 30-nanometer-class DRAM in 2G-bit densities, and...