Monthly Archives: May 2010
Microsoft Puts All Its IE9 Video Codec Eggs in the H.264 Basket
Microsoft is committed to supporting the HTML5 specification in Internet Explorer 9, and when it comes to which HTML5 video codec to support, Microsoft...
FCC to Keep Broadband Services Deregulated, Chairman Says
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said the government body is leaning toward keeping the current regulatory structure of broadband Internet...
Motorola, Bolstered by Android Sales, Posts Strong Q1
Motorola's fall from the global Top 5 cell phone vendor list-following a strong first quarter 2010 for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which rose...
Virtualization Security Falls Short Among Enterprises, Survey Says
Enterprise adoption of virtualization is continuing its upward trend. But what about security?According to Prism Microsystems, organizations are slacking when it comes to protecting...
Google Bags BumpTop, Adding 3D UI for Android Tablets
Google has acquired BumpTop, which enables 3D multitouch desktop on Windows and Mac computers, the company confirmed.BumpTop uses "pile creation techniques" to shuffle and...
Apple, Nokia, RIM Power Global Smartphone Market
Smartphone volumes continued their climb in the first quarter of 2010 as volumes reached 55.2 million, according to a report by research firm Canalys....
Microsoft Issues Producer Upgrade to Plug Security Vulnerability
Microsoft has released a new version of its Producer add-in component to fix a vulnerability previously left unpatched.In March, Microsoft issued a patch for...
Jury Decides for Red Hat, Novell in Software Patent Lawsuit
One by one, intellectual property lawsuits against companies that use open-source software in their products are falling by the wayside.A jury in East Texas...
Windows 7 Passes Vista, but Opinions Differ
Microsoft's Windows 7 occupies 14.8 percent of the operating system market, according to analytics company Janco Associates, putting it ahead of Windows Vista. However,...
HP’s Palm Acquisition Could Affect Microsoft, Tablet PCs
Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion is widely expected to change the smartphone landscape, not to mention save the Palm brand from implosion....