Monthly Archives: May 2010
Google Goggles Gets Text Translation for World Travelers
Google has added text translation to the new Version 1.1 of its Google Goggles application.Now travelers to other countries can take pictures of street...
IBM to Take On Public Health Issues
IBM is turning its massive computational and data analysis capabilities to the health care field.IBM officials on May 6 announced a project at their...
Bing’s Market Share Dips in April, Says Hitwise
Microsoft's Bing search engine saw its U.S. market share dip from 9.62 percent to 9.43 percent in the period between March and April 2010,...
FCC’s Third Way for Broadband Access Is a Boon to Network Neutrality, Google
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski May 6 laid down new rules for applying narrow regulations to broadband providers, which should please Internet companies...
Apple iPad May Cannibalize iPod Touch, Notebooks
Apple's iPad may cannibalize sales of related devices, including notebooks and the iPod Touch, according to a March survey by Alphawise, Morgan Stanley's specialized...
Private-Sector Jobs Increased by 32,000 in April
Payroll services company Automatic Data Processing has released its monthly figures on employment based on private-sector payroll information. This is the monthly report that...
Apple iPhone 4G Affair Deepens with Court Filing
News organizations ranging from the Associated Press to Bloomberg News have joined a court filing to unseal the search warrant affidavit that backed the...
Dropbox Anywhere Sports File Sync for Android, iPad, BlackBerry
Cloud file storage startup Dropbox broadened its reach May 4 by adding support for Google's Android, Apple's iPad and Research In Motion's BlackBerry mobile...
Nokia, Samsung, LG Top Q1 Global Handset Market: Report
More good news on the global mobile handset market arrived May 5 from ABI Research, which reported shipments of 303 million handsets in the...
UC-Davis Shuns Gmail over Google Buzz Privacy Gaffe
What one week bringeth, the next taketh away.One week after Google proudly said Oregon's entire public school system jumped aboard the Google Apps train...