Monthly Archives: June 2011
Google+ Is Like Facebook and Yet Different
There are lot of things flying around right now regarding the Google+ social network the company rolled out to invitees only June 28.With all...
Intel Offers SMB Customers On-Site Support for Servers
Chipmaker Intel announced the availability of a new on-site repair service for small and midsize businesses. Intel On-Site Repair for Servers is offered through...
Cisco Cius, AppHQ Aim at Enterprise Tablet Market
Cisco Systems is introducing an app ecosystem for its Cisco Cius tablet, marking the company's entrance into an already crowded landscape.The AppHQ app ecosystem...
IBM Sees Large Market for Wireless Health-Monitoring Devices
Devices smaller than a cell phone will allow people to monitor their health within the next five years and consumers will be willing to...
Wipro Unveils Cloud Collaboration Platform to Trim Clinical Drug Trial Time
Global IT outsourcing firm Wipro Technologies has introduced its secure cloud-based Clinical Collaboration Portal that it says can reduce clinical drug trial time by...
Oracle Buys Ellison-Owned Pillar Data Systems
Oracle just made about the easiest purchase of another company in its 30-plus years in business, since it is buying a company its CEO...
Managing in the Cloud
I'm moderating a sponsored webcast tomorrow, June 30 entitled "Smarter Computing: Managed in the Cloud - Virtualization Without Limits." Not withstanding the somewhat breathless...
Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Scheduled for July 8: NASA
After the day-long Flight Readiness Review at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, senior space agency and contractor managers voted unanimously to set space...
RockMelt Gets $30M From Accel, Khosla, Andreessen Horowitz
RockMelt June 29 said it just bankrolled $30 million in funding from new investors Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz,...
Apple Patches 11 Java Vulnerabilities in Mac OS X
Apple has pushed out the fixes for the Java remote code vulnerabilities Oracle patched earlier this month, including a "serious" flaw that allowed Java...