Monthly Archives: March 2011
Microsoft Fires EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google
Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, insisting that arch-rival Google's competitive practices unfairly dominate the European search market."We're concerned by...
IEEE Reports Breach of 800 Engineers’ Credit Card Data
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has notified more than 800 of its members that their credit card and other personal information were...
BBC Website Outage Not a DDOS Attack
Nowadays, any kind of unexpected Website downtime seems to bring out the Chicken Little in all of us. Instead of "The sky is falling!"...
Apple iPad, Tablet Sales to Increase Global IT Spending: Gartner
The Apple iPad and the media-tablet market it has given rise to continue to affect the larger tech world.Market research firm Gartner, since deciding...
Google Launches In-App Billing for Android Market
Google March 29 officially launched Android Market In-app Billing to let developers publish applications that incorporate ways for consumers to purchase goods from within...
Salesforce.com Buys Facebook Filter Radian6 for $326M
Salesforce.com March 30 agreed to purchase Radian6 for $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, giving the enterprise application provider a credible...
Google Buzz Privacy Complaint Settled with FTC
Google March 30 said it settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy promises to consumers with...
Microsoft Co-Founder Allen’s Tell-All Fires at Gates, Ballmer
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is publishing a memoir in May, titled "Idea Man," that details the company's early days. While that alone might not...
Google Picks Kansas City for 1G bps Broadband Deployment
And the winner for Google's ultra-high-speed broadband pageant is... Kansas City.Google March 30 said Kansas City beat out almost 1,100 cities clamoring to be...
AMD Aims Enterprise Chips at Cloud, Virtualization
NEW YORK-Enterprise computing increasingly will hinge on cloud computing and virtualization, and Advanced Micro Devices' server chip road map dovetails nicely with that trend,...