Monthly Archives: April 2011
Google News Becoming Palette for Twitter, Social Web
Has anyone else noticed the new tweets section when you click into full coverage pages of Google News?Now when you click on a news...
Google Puts $100M into Shepherds Flat Wind Farm
Google upped its total clean energy spend to $350 million after pumping $100 million into the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm April 18.Spanning over 30...
Samsung to Combine Hard Disk Drive Operations into Seagate
Seagate Technology, a provider of hard disk drives and storage solutions, and Samsung Electronics, a manufacturer of digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced...
Mobile Data Network Traffic Moving to WiFi, Femtocells: Juniper Report
A report released from Juniper Research has found that the majority of traffic (63 percent) generated by smartphones, tablets and feature phones will transfer...
IBM Pegs Strong Q1 Earnings on Hardware, Raises 2011 Forecast
IBM announced strong first-quarter 2011 earnings, with healthy growth among its core hardware, software and services sectors; Big Blue also raised its outlook for...
Data Breaches Quintuple but Compromised Record Tally Drops in 2010: Survey
While the number of data breaches soared in 2010, the amount of information lost has dropped dramatically, according to Verizon's latest data breach survey....
BlackBerry PlayBook Hits Store Shelves, Following Lukewarm Reviews
Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet hits store shelves April 19. Can the device overcome a spate of mediocre and negative reviews?That remains a...
IPv6 Web Address Adoption Growing but Traffic Remains Minuscule
Even though the number of available IPv4 addresses are dwindling faster than expected, the move to IPv6 remains sluggish, according to a recent study...
Microsoft, i4i Supreme Court Battle Could Mean Big Patent Law Changes
Whether Microsoft wins or loses the intellectual property case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, patent law is likely to change in radical ways...
PCI-DSS Compliance Helps Prevent Data Breaches Despite IT Doubts: Survey
PCI-compliant organizations suffered fewer or no data breaches in 2009 and 2010 compared to previous years, according to the latest Ponemon Institute report. Even...