Monthly Archives: May 2011
T-Mobile ‘Unlimited’ Monthly 4G Plans Will Challenge Verizon, Sprint
T-Mobile has introduced two new No Annual Contract plan for subscribers to its 4G network, as well as a suite of family and individual...
Microsoft Windows Phone Mango Update Is Major Upgrade
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) demonstrated some features of its upcoming "Mango" software update for Windows Phones at a small New York City presentation for media and...
Google Gets Sparkbuy Laptop Comparison Engine
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) quietly purchased Sparkbuy, a vertical search engine that specializes in helping consumers find the right laptop.Sparkbuy users click features that are important...
Barnes and Noble’s Touch-Screen Nook Challenges Kindle
Barnes & Noble's e-reading strategy hooked a sharp left May 24, with the unveiling of a grayscale Nook e-reader navigable via touch screen.That represents...
Motorola Droid X, Droid 2, Droid Pro Baking ‘Gingerbread’
Motorola Mobility said that some of its leading Droid smartphones will get the bump to Google's Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system later this year.A...
HP, IBM See Boost in Demand for Unix Servers, Mainframes: IDC
Hewlett-Packard and IBM remained No. 1 and 2 in server revenue during the first quarter, with revenue gains fueled in part by growing demand...
Jive Buys OffiSync to Socialize Microsoft Office, SharePoint
Jive Software is ramping up its acquisition pace with the acquisition of OffiSync, a software-integration tool that lets users search and annotate documents.Financial terms...
Square Debuts Point-of-Sale Support for Apple iPad
Are the days of paying for your purchases at the traditional cash register coming to an end? According to the CEO of tech startup...
Twitter acquires TweetDeck: Building out the platform
Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun...Image via CrunchBaseCNN is reporting that Twitter spent $40 million to acquire TweetDeck. I've been using TweetDeck since...
Microsoft Uncovers 400K Tainted Email Addresses on Rustock Hard Drives
Microsoft investigators have uncovered more than 400,000 email addresses from a single hard drive seized during the Rustock botnet takedown in March, according to...