Monthly Archives: December 2010
Twitter Worm Abuses Google URL Shortener
A new Twitter worm has surfaced that abuses Google's goo.gl link shortening service.The worm has been seen spreading with the following links: "goo.gl/R7f68" and...
Federal Government Adopting Open Source for Data Center Consolidation
As federal agencies consolidate data centers, both government IT managers and service providers are increasingly looking at open source software stacks to ease the...
Storage Software Market Sees Healthy Gain in Q3
The worldwide storage software market showed another healthy gain in the third quarter of 2010, with 8.7 percent growth over the same period a...
VMware, LG Explain Plans for ‘Glued Together’ Smartphones
The days of companies in non-regulated markets conducting business strictly on a desktop, laptop or thin-client computer within a closed network are pretty much...
Microsoft Exec Declines to Talk Windows Phone 7 Sales
Microsoft still seems reluctant to share sales numbers for Windows Phone 7.During a Dec. 7 conversation with Walt Mossberg at the D: Dive Into...
Microsoft IE9 Adding Do Not Track Feature for Privacy
Microsoft announced plans today to add new protection to block tracking in the upcoming version of Internet Explorer.In IE9, Microsoft plans to implement a...
Apple iPad 2 Could Ship by February 2011: Rumors
Apple's manufacturers could be prepping a next-generation iPad for shipment within the next 100 days, if a report from DigiTimes proves correct.According to that...
HP Pulled Ahead of Dell in the Recovering Q3 Workstation Market
Led by Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the workstation market is on a steady march back to pre-economic-downfall levels, Jon Peddie Research reported in a Dec....
Samsung Nexus S Smartphone Shows Off Android 2.3, Gaming, Multimedia, NFC
Samsung Nexus S Smartphone Shows Off Android 2.3, Gaming, Multimedia, NFC
by Clint Boulton
Display
The Nexus S sports a 4-inch, Super AMOLED screen Samsung has popularized...
JCP Gives Java 7, 8 Roadmaps Greenlight Under Protest
Oracle got its wish and gained approval for the technical roadmaps governing Java Standard Edition 7 and Java 8, but not without hearing the...