Monthly Archives: April 2011
HTC Thunderbolt Costs $129.99 from Amazon Until April 25
Amazon.com's wireless unit is selling the HTC Thunderbolt Android smartphone for $129.99, or nearly half off the $249.99 retail price Verizon Wireless began selling...
Cyber-Attacks Targeting Power, Gas Utilities on the Rise: Survey
Critical infrastructure in the United States, including power and gas utilities, remains vulnerable to cyber-attack, and organizations are unprepared to handle major incidents, a...
RightScale and Zend Deliver Platform as a Service for PHP
RightScale and Zend Technologies jointly developed a solution for deploying and managing PHP applications with high availability, elasticity and portability in the cloud.RightScale, which...
Amazon Still Resolving Problems on Second Day of Outage
Amazon.com reported that problems that shut down some of its Web services-namely its Elastic Compute Cloud, Relational Database Service and Elastic Beanstalk-still hadn't been...
Samsung Countersues Apple, Claiming iPhone, iPad Violate Its Patents
It took less than a week for Samung to fire back at Apple with a patent-infringement lawsuit of its own. On April 22, Samsung...
Amazon’s Cloud Drive Music Service: Why It’s Not Ready for Prime Time
Amazon announced its new Cloud Drive music service last week. It seems innocent enough: You create an Amazon Cloud Drive account and then select...
MicroStrategy Releases Business Intelligence Software
Business intelligence software provider MicroStrategy announced that MicroStrategy 9.2 comes with a new feature, Visual Insight, that helps business people explore data to get...
Green Products Sell Despite Doubts of Efficacy: Survey
A new survey of more than 6,800 online U.S. adults aged 18 or older revealed that although a vast majority of respondents (89.4 percent)...
Verizon’s HTC ThunderBolt, iPhone 4 Are Causes for Conversation: Report
People are talking about the HTC ThunderBolt on the Verizon Wireless network.According to SocialNuggets, a provider of "market intelligence" that it culls from various...
New Apple iPhone App Helps Military Personnel Cope with Stress Disorder
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have launched PTSD Coach, an iPhone app that allows members of the military as...