Monthly Archives: September 2010
Age a Big Factor in Technology Earnings
The older you get in technology, the harder it is to maintain a salary that grows, discovered economists Clair Brown and Dr. Greg Linden...
Samsung Predicts New Smartphones Will Fire Up Profits
At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung's mobile communications division, told journalists he expects the company's mobile business...
Google CEO as Creepy Ice Cream Man Sniffing for Your Data
Consumer Watchdog is ratcheting up its rhetoric in a move to get Congress to investigate Google over data privacy concerns.The advocate group released a...
Investors Enjoy Huge Takeaway in HP Buy of 3PAR
In the aftermath of the out-of-control bidding war that recently concluded with Hewlett-Packard outspending Dell at $2.35 billion for storage maker 3PAR, the winners...
Wireless Carriers Prepare for Hurricane Earl Damage
Wireless carriers are marshalling their forces at a series of mostly undisclosed locations in the mid-Atlantic as Hurricane Earl works its way up the...
Internet Scammer Gets Nearly 13 Years for $1.3M Fraud
Okpako Diamreyan, a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced Sept. 1 to nearly 13 years in prison for masterminding an "advanced fee" scam that cost his...
PostgreSQL 9.0 Release Candidate Hits the Street
The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 has arrived with built-in binary replication technology.Expected to be ready for final release sometime in September, the...
Twitter Counts 145M Users, 62% Hike in Mobile
Twitter has more than 145 million registered users, with mobile users jumping 62 percent since April after the company began offering its own mobile...
Nvidia GeForce 400M GPU Series Is Rolled Out
Chip maker Nvidia is calling its GeForce 400M Series of graphics processing units the building blocks for the next generation of Nvidia Optimus and...
IDC Sees PC Sales Slowing in Second Half of 2010
IDC analysts are predicting what others have also: Consumer sales of PCs will slow in the second half of 2010 after a strong first...