Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Skinny on Google TV and Why It Will Make Google Fat Money
A lot of people came away from watching the Google TV presentation in person at Google I/O or via YouTube May 20 confused about...
Midmarket Companies Steady on PC Purchases, Report Finds
Small to medium-size businesses (SMB) are more likely to spend money on PCs this year than on any other major IT hardware category, according...
Verizon, Google, Motorola Unveiling New Droid Phone June 23
Executives from Verizon, Motorola and Google will introduce a new Motorola Droid smartphone June 23, one day before Apple's hallowed iPhone 4 hits the...
Facebook Privacy Critics Challenge Zuckerberg to Make More Changes
Facebook's privacy battles are not over at all. In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, (PDF) privacy advocates June 16 released a...
10 Apps We Would Improve with iOS 4 and iPhone 4
10 Apps We Would Improve with iOS 4 and iPhone 4
by P. J. Connolly
COMPANY: Nuance CommunicationsAPP: Dragon DictationWHAT COULD BE IMPROVED:
Currently, Dragon saves...
Oracle Delivers NetBeans 6.9
Oracle has released a new version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE), NetBeans 6.9, which expands the tool suite's support for JavaFX...
NEC Offers Starter Data Storage for Midrange Market
NEC on June 15 unveiled an entry-level addition to its bread-and-butter Hydrastor storage array lineup designed to handle all instances of enterprise storage: everyday...
Sony Ericsson Android-Running Xperia Smartphone Lineup Grows
Sony Ericsson added a new member to its Android-running Xperia smartphone family June 16, with the introduction of the Xperia X8.Dubbed an "entertainment smartphone"...
SGI Ships Its First 6G Bps SAS System
SGI on June 15 joined the growing ranks of high-end storage vendors targeting the midmarket when it launched a spiffy new 6G-bps SAS version...
10 Intriguing but Unlikely Mergers of IT Giants
10 Intriguing but Unlikely Mergers of IT Giants
by Don Reisinger
Microsoft and Yahoo
When Microsoft first announced that it wanted to acquire Yahoo a few years...