Monthly Archives: April 2010
Conficker: ‘Headless Botnet’ Still Infecting Windows Users
On April 1, 2009, the Conficker worm played an April Fools' Day joke of its own on those who predicted an Internet meltdown.But instead...
HP, Dell Rethinking 10-Inch Netbooks: Report
Hewlett-Packard and Dell, No. 1 and No. 3 in the worldwide PC market, respectively, may be scaling back their investments in the 10-inch netbook...
Palm Blog Rounds Up Savings, Offers for Pre Plus, Pixi Plus
The Palm Blog has rounded up a number of deals on Palm's newest smartphones, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus.Anyone who's had an eye...
Cisco Brings WebEx to the Apple iPad
Cisco Systems is bringing its WebEx collaboration offering to Apple's iPad.When Apple's tablet goes on sale April 3, owners will be able to download...
Wyse Offers PocketCloud App for Apple iPad
Desktop virtualization vendor Wyse Technology is making its PocketCloud software available to users of Apple's iPad.Wyse introduced PocketCloud in August 2009 as a way...
Ex-Googler Falls Prey to Wonderful Privacy Flaw of Google Buzz
This is a fun story.Andrew McLaughlin, formerly Google's top lobbyist and currently the deputy CTO in the White House, where he advises President Barack...
Microsoft Sues U.K.-Based Control Pad Company
Microsoft, which makes the Xbox 360 game console, filed a lawsuit against U.K. technology company Datel Design & Development, which makes third-party game controllers....
Employment Figures Show Gain of 162,000 Jobs in March
There was a bump of 162,000 new, non-farm jobs in March and the unemployment rate was held unchanged at 9.7 percent, according to monthly...
Tripp Lite Introduces IP KVM Switches
Power protection and connectivity specialist Tripp Lite announced a line of IP-capable Cat5 KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switches with features including virtual media...
Sharp Creating 3D Cell Phone Displays, No Glasses Required
Electronics maker Sharp plans to make three-dimensional displays for cell phones and other mobile devices, the company announced at a press conference on April...