Monthly Archives: July 2011
ISPs Agree to Six Strikes System Warning Users of Suspected Online Piracy
Several ISPs signed a voluntary agreement with the music and movie businesses to crack down on online copyright infringement.Most major ISPs in the United...
Space Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off for Last Time
The space shuttle Atlantis launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida July 8 for the last time, bringing to a close the space...
CloudBees Launches Eclipse Toolkit for Java Cloud Developers
CloudBees, maker of the DEV@cloud Java Platform as a Service, has announced the general availability of its CloudBees Eclipse toolkit plug-in.The CloudBees Eclipse plug-in...
Gateway, MSI Offer Laptops with Latest Intel, AMD Chips
Computer makers MSI and Gateway are rolling out laptops sporting new chip technologies from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.MSI on July 8 unveiled the...
UK Newspaper Scandal Shows How It’s Easy to Tap Into Phone Mailboxes
The techniques used by the staffers at News of the World to listen in on thousands of voicemail messages were fairly low-tech, but voicemail...
Apple iPad, Android Will Power Tablet Shipments in 2011: IDC
Apple's iPad will help drive 53.5 million tablet shipments in 2011, according to a July 8 note from research firm IDC.IDC is raising its...
IBM, ETH Zurich Turn to the Cloud in Battle Against Super-Bacteria
IBM has announced that researchers from science and technology university ETH Zurich and CloudBroker, a high-performance cloud-computing company, have partnered with Big Blue to...
Motorola Xoom
Motorola Xoom
When the Motorola Xoom launched earlier this year with its 10.1-inch display and Android 3.0 Honeycomb, there was a lot of pre-release chatter...
Chromebooks Run Adobe Flash “Pepper”
As Chromebooks hit the market, users may be needlessly vulnerable to Flash-based exploits, according to a Kaspersky Lab researcher.A fully updated Samsung Chromebook was...
Verizon Offers Motorola Droid 3 Smartphone for $199
Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility announced the availability of the Droid 3 by Motorola, which sports a dual-core 1GHz processor, full QWERTY keyboard and...