Monthly Archives: February 2011
Egyptian Internet Shutdown Batters Economy, Fails to Quell Protests
The decision by the Egyptian government last week to shut down Internet access to the outside world has demonstrated that keeping people away from...
OpenLogic Lists Top 10 Open Source Projects of 2010
OpenLogic, a provider of enterprise open-sourcesoftwaresupport, scanning andgovernancesolutions, has released its list of the Top 10 open-source projects of 2010.The provider of enterprise open-source...
N.Y. Broker Indicted in Pump-and-Dump Spam Scheme
Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Feb. 1 in Detroit accusing stock broker Gregg M. Berger of New York of running a multimillion-dollar "pump-and-dump" scam...
Android Overtakes Symbian as Top Smartphone OS: 10 Reasons Why
After slowly marching its way toward the top of the smartphone OS market, Google's Android platform is now the most-popular smartphone operating system in...
Microsoft: Yahoo Mail Responsible for Windows Phone 7 Data Drain
Microsoft is blaming Yahoo Mail for a "data-drain" bug affecting a small subset of Windows Phone 7 devices.For weeks, the company had been investigating...
Space Shuttle Discovery Reaches Launch Pad: NASA
The space shuttle Discovery reached Launch Pad 39A following its 3.4 mile trek on the crawler-transporter from the Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA reported, noting...
IBM Pushes Partners, Students to Adopt Social Business Skills
ORLANDO, Fla. - As part of its new Social Business initiative, IBM has announced new programs to help business partners embrace the growing social...
Google, Twitter Build Speak-to-Tweet for Egypt
Google and Twitter have teamed up to create a speak-to-tweet service for citizens in Egypt, where the Internet has gone dark.Tweeting via speech is...
Quest Software Upgrades VMware Deployment Protection
Quest Software on Feb. 1 announced that it has added three new data protection features to its vRanger Pro product for VMware deployments.In fact,...
IPv4 Address Exhaustion Not Instant Cause for Concern with IPv6 in Wings
The last IP address blocks in the IPv4 namespace will be automatically assigned to the organizations overseeing the net address assignments three months earlier...