Monthly Archives: March 2011
Japan Earthquake Rattles Chip Production: Report
The Japanese earthquake has apparently suspended 25 percent of the global production of silicon wafers, according to a new report from research firm IHS...
ATandT, Deutsche Telekom Deal Boosts European Stocks
AT&T's $39 billion dollar deal to acquire T-Mobile USA, the American arm of German company Deutsche Telekom, has boosted European stocks and pushed Deutsche...
Juniper Networks Joins the Eclipse Foundation
At the EclipseCon 2011 conference, Juniper Networks announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation.At EclipseCon 2011 in Santa Clara, Calif., Juniper announced its...
Target Virtualizes Store Workloads with Microsoft Tools
Microsoft announced March 21 that Target is using Microsoft's Hyper-V and Systems Center technology to virtualize the machines running its core business-critical applications.At the...
ICANN Approves .XXX Domain for Adult Web Content
The agency governing Internet addresses has approved .xxx as a new top-level domain, despite objections from civil rights groups, the adult entertainment industry and...
Windows Phone 7 Update Preinstalled on Phones, But No Sign of Push Yet
Will Microsoft push through its long-awaited Windows Phone 7 "NoDo" update this week?Microsoft has predicted that the update, which includes faster application loading and...
Why Groupon Threatens Google’s Contextual Discovery Plans
Anyone who may have knit their eyebrows over Google's $6 billion offer to buy Groupon should read Business Week's fine profile on the company...
Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced 8 Years for Intellectual Property Theft
The former Goldman Sachs computer programmer was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing proprietary code used by the Wall Street bank's high-frequency...
Internet Explorer 9 Launch, BlackBerry Partnership Marked Microsoft’s Week
For most consumers (and businesses), the most important piece of news coming out of Microsoft's week was the March 14 release of Internet Explorer...
RSA SecurID Breach Shows Why Everybody Must Stay Vigilant
Two-factor authentication has been considered by many to be the gold standard for secure IT access. The idea is that you must have two...