Monthly Archives: February 2011
Apple Tops Mobile PC Rankings When iPad is Included: DisplaySearch
That the Apple iPad dominated the tablet market during the fourth quarter of 2010 is fairly a given these days, but likely less known...
Alleged Dell Roadmap Shows 6 New Tablets, 3 Smartphones
Dell CEO Michael Dell shared, during the company's Feb. 15 earnings call, that the company planned to enter the 10-inch tablet space later this...
Dell Makes Headway with Server Business
In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell's Server Platforms business, said that even though the company...
Sprint, BL Healthcare Collaborate on 3G Remote Health Monitoring
Sprint has formed a partnership with remote-health-management provider BL Healthcare to power 3G connectivity for its telemedicine platform.The collaboration with Sprint announced on Feb....
Microsoft Claims Internet Explorer 9 RC Hits 2 Million Downloads
Microsoft is claiming its Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate has hit 2 million downloads, roughly a week after the company first made the near-final...
Smartphones, Not Tablets, Top Consumer Shopping Lists: Gartner
While major electronics vendors from Samsung to Hewlett-Packard and Motorola are making giant "to-dos" over their iPad-competing tablet efforts, these devices actually rank lowest...
Cloud Computing Raises Total IT Expenditure: Why That’s a Good Thing
I recently wrote a paper looking at the economics of cloud computing. In the paper I identified a number of economic impacts of cloud...
Verizon Identity Service Rolls Out at RSA
I sat in on talk by Dr. Peter Tippett this morning at RSA. Tippett is Vice President Industry Solutions and Security Practices at Verizon...
HBGary Pulls Out of RSA Amidst Controversy
After being stung by the controversy regarding the hack by "Anonymous," HBGary has pulled out of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.The decision followed...
Facebook Cheers INQ Cloud, HTC ChaCha, Salsa Smartphones
Facebook Feb. 15 acknowledged that it had worked with INQ Mobile and HTC to help the phone makers deliver so-called Facebook phones, or handsets...