Monthly Archives: March 2011
Microsoft Launches Python Tools for Visual Studio Beta
Microsoft has launched the beta release of a new set of tools for Python developers, Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS).The software giant introduced...
NetApp Buys LSI Storage Division for $480M
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal...
Space Shuttle Discovery Lands for the Last Time
NASA reported the crew of the space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 9 after its last mission into...
Microsoft Tablets Can Learn From Apple, Motorola, Windows Phone 7
Microsoft faces something of a battle royale in the tablet market. Apple's iPad currently sells millions of units, and its rivals are making aggressive...
Barnes and Noble Nook Color, at $250, May Be the Best Android Tablet Deal
Barnes & Noble may be struggling as a bookseller, but on the tablet front, it's on to something.The bookseller's newest e-reader, the Nook Color,...
Data Breach Affects 2,777 Henry Ford Health System Patients
The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has started notifying by postal mail 2,777 patients affected by a missing flash drive.The nonprofit health system,...
Malvertisements Hit 3 Million Impressions per Day at End of 2010
The number of malicious Web advertisements jumped sharply in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a report from security firm Dasient."Malvertising," or advertisements...
Dell, Rackspace, Opscode Demonstrate Automated OpenStack Cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Dell, Opscode and Rackspace on March 9 demonstrated what they described as the first fully automated provisioning of a multinode OpenStack cloud,...
HP’s webOS Running on All PCs by 2012: Report
Every PC shipped by Hewlett-Packard, beginning in 2012, will include the ability to run webOS, the mobile operating system HP acquired last year in...
Apple Patches Java in Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard
Apple patched 27 Java vulnerabilities in its latest update to close security flaws that allowed malicious Java applets to execute outside the browser.Apple shipped...