Monthly Archives: June 2011
Google Buys PostRank for Social Media Analytics
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) June 3 said it has purchased PostRank, a startup whose software sifts through social media to disambiguate signal from noise.Financial terms of...
Apple Hires Jailbreak Developer
Who says jailbreaking doesn't pay? Apparently it paid off big-time for a software programmer who built a notification app for the iPhone that's better...
World IPv6 Day Signals Time to Modernize the Internet
The Internet Society, an international nonprofit organization that advises on Web standards, policy and education, has declared June 8 World IPv6 Day to give...
Microsoft Smartphone Share Dipping: comScore
Microsoft's (NYSE:MSFT) share of the smartphone market continues to dip, according to new numbers from comScore.The research firm plugged the company's market share at...
Microsoft’s ‘Windows 8’ Could Challenge Google Android in Tablets
Microsoft is taking a radical new direction with "Windows 8," abandoning many of the traditional Windows hallmarks in favor of a brightly colored, tile-centric...
Mac Rogue AV, Defense Contractors, Phishing Lead Week’s Security News
May 2011 is the month Apple and its legion of Mac users were forced to acknowledge that there was nothing natively secure about the...
Groupon, Google on Different Paths to Contextual Discovery
The first week of June 2011 may be looked back on as the week Groupon and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) reached pivotal points in their paths...
Android, iOS Still Growing at Blackberry, Windows Expense: comScore
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android mobile operating system and Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) rival iOS platform continued to gain market share in April, whittling away share from rivals...
Chatter Settling for Good-Enough Collaboration
Salesforce Summer '11 just released and the Chatter module got a ho-hum treatment when it needed a rocket ride. Business communication tools--especially from Salesforce.com--need...
Top 20 IBM Products/Innovations
Top 20 IBM Products/Innovations
The IBM Punch Card
Perhaps the earliest icon of the Information Age was a simple punched card produced by IBM known as...