Monthly Archives: March 2011
Verizon Offering Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot, Novatel USB 4G Modem
Verizon Wireless is hard at work building out its 4G capabilities. After beginning to take orders March 29 for the Samsung 4G Long-Term Evolution...
BP Oil Spill Claimants’ Personal Data Disappears with Lost Laptop
Gulf Coast residents who'd filed claims against oil giant British Petroleum in the wake of last year's oil spill have another thing to worry...
Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Player: Stripped Down, Easy to Use
Amazon.com launched a heavy salvo against Google and Apple in the digital-music wars, with a new cloud-based service that allows customers to upload their...
How Google Recipe View Devours the Long Tail
It's getting increasingly harder for Google to claim it is friend to the long tail of Website publishers indexed on its search engine.Nicholas Carr,...
StartupBritain Serves Up Fake AV On Launch
A government-backed Website for entrepreneurs directed users to a site hosting fake antivirus the day it launched.The site, Startup Britain, redirected Internet Explorer visitors...
Cisco Builds Cloud Offerings with newScale Purchase
Cisco Systems is looking to bolster its cloud computing services offering by acquiring privately held newScale, a company that offers software that enables businesses...
Sprint Plans to Fight ATandT Bid for T-Mobile
Sprint has come out publically against AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.Verizon Wireless is the nation's largest carrier, followed by AT&T, Sprint and...
Apple’s WWDC Agenda: 10 Possible Topics
Apple plans to hold its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco June 6-10. For now, the company has said little about its plans at...
Spam Volumes Dip Slightly as Bagle Botnet Fills Rustock Shoes
Global spam volumes dropped by a third immediately after Microsoft and law-enforcement officials shut down Rustock earlier this month, but other botnets are filling...
Nokia: Apple Still Violating Our Smartphone Patents
Nokia has filed another legal complaint against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission, accusing its rival of infringing on mobile patents."Our latest ITC...