Monthly Archives: April 2010
RIM Adds WiFi Support to Mobile Voice System 5
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Research In Motion Limited April 26 introduced Wi-Fi support to its new BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5, allowing enterprise workers to...
Verizon’s Droid Incredible Tries to Live Up to Its Name
The Android 2.1-based Verizon Droid Incredible, set to be released on April 29, at first glance looks to be the closest thing yet to...
BlackBerry Bold 9650, Pearl 3G Devices Fuel RIM’s WES
BlackBerry Bold 9650, Pearl 3G Devices Fuel RIM's WES
by Clint Boulton
The BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone
Mike McAndrews, vice president of product marketing at RIM, showed...
Barnes and Noble’s Nook Outshipped Kindle, Says Analyst
Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader shipped slightly more units in March than Amazon.com's Kindle, according to a new report by Digitimes Research, even as...
Google Places to Let Business Owners Post Sales Alerts
Google April 20 retooled its Local Business Center as Google Places to better emphasize the connection of businesses to Place Pages.Place Pages are Web...
20 Years of Stellar Shots from Hubble Space Telescope
20 Years of Stellar Shots from Hubble Space Telescope
by Nathan Eddy
Butterfly Nebula
Taken after the telescope's refurbishment in 2009, this photo depicts rolling cauldrons of...
iPhone 4G Model Hints at Future Apple Smartphone Strategy
What lessons can be learned from Apple's supposed loss of an iPhone prototype, besides, "Never let one of your software engineers get smashed and...
Windows 7 Earnings, Docs for Facebook Marked Microsoft’s Week
Microsoft's week ended on a strong positive note, with the company reporting that its fiscal 2010 third-quarter earnings had climbed 6 percent, year-over-year, to...
Google Unfazed by Microsoft-Facebook Docs Challenge
If Google is nervous about Microsoft's latest integration with Facebook on Web-based documents, it isn't showing it and analysts are torn on whether the...
Lenovo, Not HTC, Emerges as Frontrunner for Palm
HTC, Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion have all been named as companies that might benefit from purchasing smartphone-maker Palm, which has struggled for...