Monthly Archives: May 2010
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Will Face Android 2.2, iPhone OS 4
Microsoft plans on releasing Windows Phone 7, touted as a complete revamp of its smartphone operating system, sometime near the end of 2010. Its...
Microsoft’s Salesforce.com Lawsuit Overshadows Hotmail Update
Microsoft's legal activities dominated its week, particularly its filing of an intellectual property suit against Salesforce.com May 18, alleging infringement on nine of its...
Google TV Holds Promise but Must Lay Web TV Ghosts to Rest
Industry analysts are calling Google TV promising, but are guarded in their enthusiasm because the Internet-television graveyard is loaded with services from Microsoft's WebTV...
Google Addresses WiFi Privacy Snafu with Encrypted Search
Google May 21 began adding SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for its search engine, a direct response to the company's accidental collection of users'...
Dealing with the Death of Privacy in the Facebook Age
Dealing with the Death of Privacy in the Facebook Age
by Brian Prince
Step 1: Acceptance
By signing up for a social networking site, be it...
Apple CEO Jobs Lacks Faith in VP8, Says Report
Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently hinted in an e-mail message that he believes Google's VP8 WebM video codec is slow, buggy and at risk...
ATandT Will Raise Termination Fees for Smartphones
AT&T plans on raising the fee for smartphone users who break their two-year contracts, from $175 to $325, starting June 1. That fee will...
Android VP Gundotra Takes Gloves Off vs. Apple at Google I/O
Anyone holding onto any doubt that Google and Apple aren't at war for the mobile Web can rid themselves of that illusion after Google...
FTC Blesses Google’s Bid for AdMob Thanks to Apple’s iAd
The Federal Trade Commission unanimously agreed to close its investigation of Google's agreement to purchase mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million, paving the...
Facebook Users May Quit over Privacy, Sophos Reports
A poll by Sophos, discussed by Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley May 19, demonstrated that the level of public dissatisfaction with Facebook privacy policies...