Monthly Archives: April 2011
Verizon Wireless 4G Returns to Life, but Customer Trust Still Broken
Verizon Wireless has returned its 4G network to service, at least in most places. The super-fast network went down on April 27 in the...
Messaging, Webcast Numbers Skyrocket for Royal Wedding
The royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana attracted a huge television audience from virtually every corner of the world in pre-Internet year...
Royal Wedding, Obama Birth Certificate Search Poisoned with Fake AV Links
Attackers manipulating Google search to return malicious pages higher on the results page is nothing new. However, researchers have recently noticed similar tactics on...
Google Chrome OS Notebooks Coming with Gmail Subscription
Google will begin selling notebooks based on its Chrome Operating System via a subscription-based model with Gmail in addition to the traditional one-time purchase...
Facebook Deals Beats Google Offers to Groupon’s Game
Facebook Deals, the social network's riff on Groupon's local deals service, may have only launched as a test in five markets, but it's bursting...
Motorola Droid Bionic
Motorola Droid Bionic
The Droid Bionic introduced at CES sported a 4.3-inch quarter-high-definition (qHD) screen and an 8 megapixel camera, as well as HDMI connectivity...
PHP Fog Launches Cloud Platform as a Service
PHP Fog has announced that its platform-as-a-service offering will soon be available for general use.At the Under the Radar conference on April 28 in...
Apple Location-Tracking Drama Extends to Carriers, Prompts Hearing
Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have each responded to requests from lawmakers regarding their policies toward the location-based information that the smartphones they...
Sprint Selling WiFi Xoom May 8 for $599
Sprint said it will begin selling the WiFi version of the Motorola Xoom May 8 for $599, becoming the second U.S. carrier after Verizon...
Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Is Postponed
NASA officials have postponed the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour after discovering a problem with heaters in one of the vehicle's auxiliary...