Monthly Archives: April 2011
RIM PlayBook: An Early Look
Research In Motion has high hopes for the PlayBook. Not only will its proprietary QNX operating system eventually power the company's smartphones, but RIM...
Microsoft to Push IE9 to Windows Users This Week
Microsoft plans to start pushing Internet Explorer 9 to Windows 7 and Windows Vista users via Windows Update, in a likely bid to rapidly...
Bing Business Portal Challenges Google Places in Local
Microsoft followed Google in showing the world it cares about the type of local businesses that Groupon is enjoying so much success targeting by...
Apple Poaches Microsoft Cloud Exec: Report
Apple has poached a cloud executive from Microsoft, according to reports. The Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog reported April 13 that Apple has...
RIM Playbook, BlackBerry Could Use Better Spokesmen than Lazardis, Balsillie
Things have been tough recently at the Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters of Research In Motion. At the start of the week of April 10, RIM...
Adobe Swiftly Patches Critical Zero-Day Flash Bug
As promised, Adobe has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that criminals were already exploiting with malicious Word and Excel documents.The new version...
Apple TV Service Could Rival Google TV in Cloud
New life was breathed into the old rumor that Apple could release an Web-fueled TV set by an analyst who believes such as launch...
Verizon iPhone Boosts iOS Ads vs. Android: Millennial
Verizon Wireless's iPhone 4 helped boost ad impressions for Apple's iOS to 31 percent through March from 27 percent in February.iOS' gain helped trim...
Google’s Page Worries Wall Street as Spending Rises
Google executives reported solid earnings and a 17 percent year-over-year profit for the first quarter and painted a rosy picture for the future of...
Dropped Call
As part of a my review of Salesforce.com’s Free Chatter platform I created a Chatter account based on my Ziff Davis Enterprise email account...