Monthly Archives: January 2011
NASA Sets Discovery Lift-Off Date for Feb. 24
After months of delays caused by the appearance of cracks in space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, NASA officials announced the shuttle now has...
Microsoft Objects to Apple’s App Store Trademark Attempt
Apple wants to trademark the term "app store," but not if Microsoft can throw a legal barrier in its path.Apple originally filed its trademark...
Google Chrome Nixes H.264 Favored by Apple, Microsoft
Google Jan. 11 said it would no longer support the H.264 video codec standard for its Chrome Web browser, an effort to push its...
RapidShare Calls Piracy Report ‘Absurd’
RapidShare has reacted harshly to a report characterizing the file-hosting site as a home for pirated content.In a study released Jan. 11, researchers from...
How Much Will the Verizon iPhone Impinge Upon Android Sales?
As I sat in the theater Jan. 11, which is totally appropriate considering I was listening to the dramatic flourish that was Verizon Wireless'...
IBM, Samsung Expand Chip Development Partnership
Researchers from Samsung Electronics are joining those from IBM and other partners in developing new semiconductor technology for a wide range of applications, from...
New VoxOx Mobile Messaging App Unifies Several Communication Channels
Facebook recently made headlines with its approach to unifying messaging-e-mail, chat and texting-and making it possible to respond to any of those types of...
SAP Application Security Spotlighted at Black Hat DC
With more and more SAP systems getting connected to the Web, the security landscape for many organizations is changing.
Just how much-and what those changes...
GigaSpaces, CloudTran Partner on Cloud-Based Data Processing
GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of virtualized application platforms delivering end-to-end scalability, announced CloudTran has integrated its transaction management middleware with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform....
Voltage Security, Merchant Link Announce Payment Protection Platform
Voltage Security, a provider of enterprise and payment card data protection inside and outside the cloud, and Merchant Link, a provider of payment gateway...