Monthly Archives: August 2010
Apple’s 99-Cent TV Rental, iTunes Event Set for September: Report
Apple has sent invitations to media for a Sept. 1 event in San Francisco. According to a new online report, the company could use...
Google Gmail Phone Calling Presents Skype Challenge
Google is rolling out a service that makes phone calls through Gmail. Calls to the United States and Canada will be free through at...
Even Android Can’t Fix Dell’s Failing Mobile Strategy: 10 Reasons Why
Dell released its Aero smartphone this week. The device retails for $99 with a two-year contract from AT&T. Its design looks quite similar to...
Apple iPad, Kindle Sales Warn of Coming Tablet Tsunami
Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle are effectively two sides of the same coin. They are highly portable in their own right, and they are...
Amazon: New Kindle Outselling Previous Versions
Amazon.com is shipping its latest-generation Kindle to customers Aug. 25, two days ahead of the previously announced release date. In the month since its...
Rambus Sues IBM in Effort to Reverse Patent Ruling
Litigation-happy Rambus, which specializes in high-performance memory interfaces, has taken on technology giant IBM again, despite a court ruling that said IBM had not...
LANDesk Software to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo
Systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management specialist LANDesk announced Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, has entered into an agreement...
Windows DLL Bugs Affect Adobe Photoshop, Firefox
The fallout from the binary planting vulnerabilities plaguing scores of programs running on Windows continued today as more names of susceptible applications became public...
FalconStor Ships New Accelerator for VMware VDI Deployments
FalconStor Software on Aug. 24 released a new storage network accelerator that runs on VMware View to improve the performance of VMware virtual desktop...
Sprint Small Business Website Offers Products, Reviews
Network operator Sprint announced the launch of an online site aimed at small and medium-size businesses that allows visitors to research, compare and buy...