Monthly Archives: January 2011
Clearwire Elects Wireless Industry Deal Maker John Stanton as Its Chairman
Clearwire announced Jan. 8 that wireless industry pioneer John W. Stanton, already a member of Clearwire's board, will be its new chairman. Stanton succeeds...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Eventual Exit: 10 Potential Outcomes
Steve Jobs has decided to take a medical leave of absence for an indefinite period of time. The Apple CEO didn't say what's wrong,...
Tilera Gets $45 Million from Cisco, Samsung, Others
Tilera, among the first in a growing number of processor makers looking to manufacture non-x86 chips for servers in cloud computing and other high-performance...
Facebook Stalks Google with $2B in Social-Ad Spend
Facebook led the market in social-network advertising in 2010, racking up $1.86 billion of the ad revenues in the U.S. and abroad, thanks to...
Microsoft, Digital Health Summit Laud Body Sensors, Bionic Hands
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Digital Health Summit event highlighted some innovative "game changers" poised to change elder care,...
Western Digital Expands Line of SAS Hard Drives
Western Digital is offering its second-generation WD S25 server-attached-storage drives and its latest WD RE server-attached-storage 3.5-inch drives for the traditional enterprise market.Shipping now,...
Talari Offers Mercury T750 WAN Virtualization Appliance
Talari Networks announced the addition of the Mercury T750 appliance to its family of adaptive private-networking products for WAN Virtualization. Aimed at midsized enterprises...
How Attack Toolkits Impact the Cyber-Underground
A new report (PDF) from Symantec highlights just how much the spread of attack toolkits has lowered the barrier to entry for cyber-criminals.The kits...
Apple iPad, iPhone, Mac Sales Break Records During Q1
Apple announced record sales of iPads, iPhones and Macs, as well as its highest-ever earnings and revenue, during a Jan. 18 conference call announcing...
Quest Software Moves Deeper into Storage with BakBone Acquisition
Quest Software, which used to concentrate on producing software tools that made dealing with complicated Oracle database deployments bearable, continues to add to its...