Monthly Archives: January 2011
Dell Vostro 460 Desktop Designed for Small Businesses
Technology giant Dell unveiled its Vostro 460 desktop at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, announcing worldwide availability for the PC starting Tuesday,...
RIM BlackBerry 4G PlayBook Coming From Sprint in Summer
Research In Motion on Jan. 6 tapped Sprint to launch its controversial BlackBerry PlayBook tablet later this summer.RIM's PlayBook, the company's answer to Apple's...
Salesforce.com Fortifies Chatter by Buying Dimdim Conferencing for $31M
Salesforce.com bought Indian Web conferencing company Dimdim to add critical real-time communication capabilities to its collaboration platform, the company said on Jan. 6.Salesforce.com paid...
Nvidia GeForce 500M Series GPUs Support Optimus Technology
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia announced the GeForce 500M series of notebook graphics-processing units, designed to power laptops featuring next-generation Intel Core CPUs,...
Buffalo Unveils New Multi-TB Storage Lineup
Network and direct-attached storage maker Buffalo Technology Jan. 6 released a new line of relatively low-cost, terabyte-capacity desktop and rack-mount network storage drives at...
Small Business IT Investment Picture Improving: Report
The budding recovery in IT investment that started to take shape in 2010 appears to be heading for an uptick in 2011 as small...
Skype to Acquire Qik, Mobile Video Startup
LAS VEGAS-Faced with the specter of rising competition from Google and smaller VOIP services, Skype announced Jan. 6 that it had entered into a...
Microsoft to Patch 3 Windows Security Bugs Next Week
Microsoft is kicking off 2011 with a small Patch Tuesday release that will feature fixes for three vulnerabilities in Windows.The bugs will be patched...
Acer Unveils Aspire Laptops with Intel Core i7 and AMD APU Chips
Acer, the world's second-largest PC maker, introduced four mobile PCs at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), covering a range of consumer tastes. At...
Apple, ATandT Drop iPhone 3GS Pricing to $49
Apple and AT&T are dropping the price of the iPhone 3GS to just $49, beginning Jan. 7. The offer is available to new customers...