Monthly Archives: October 2010
Microsoft, Facebook Introduce New Social Search Features
Microsoft and Facebook are partnering on a set of new social-search features accessible via Bing. The features will also activate for Web results on...
Microsoft Must Rebuild Its Brand: 10 Ways to Do It
The question over whether or not Microsoft's brand is strong can be difficult to answer. Microsoft supporters could easily point to the company's dominance...
Appro Unveils HPC Offerings for Financials Services, Oil and Gas Industries
Appro is expanding its supercomputing hardware portfolio with offerings targeting the high-frequency trading space and oil and gas market.Appro on Oct. 12 unveiled the...
HP Awarded $26 Million Contract for Medicare, Medicaid IT Support
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services has received a $26 million order to continue its IT support for the Department of Health and Human Services' CMS (Centers...
Clearwire Spectrum Auction Looks Like Act of Desperation
Clearwire's current attempt to auction off a portion of its massive spectrum holdings may be the company's desperate last effort to find a way...
Microsoft Windows Phone 7: 10 Ways It Falls Short
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage on Oct. 11 and showed off Windows Phone 7, along with a slew of smartphones that...
Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator, TCX Suite Get Updates
Cloud client computing specialist Wyse Technology has announced enhancements to its Virtual Desktop Accelerator and TCX Suite virtualization software solutions. The new Wyse VDA...
McAfee Talks Security Strategy with ‘Security Connected’ Vision
McAfee is pushing a new initiative it calls "Security Connected" that puts an emphasis on correlating information from its security products to better protect...
Western Digital, Brocade Face Challenges Despite Rebound: Report
While tablet computers such as the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab threaten to eat into traditional computer companies' revenues, the data storage device...
EMC Moves into Big Database World with Greenplum Appliance
As amazing as it seems, EMC, the world's largest independent data storage and protection company, really didn't have a competitive data warehousing choice in...