Monthly Archives: August 2011
AMD Picks Lenovo President as New CEO
Eight months after Dirk Meyer resigned as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second-largest chip maker has found a replacement from the executive...
Electric Utilities Investing $4.1 Billion by 2018 to Secure Smart Grids
Increasing risks to the electrical grid will require utilities to invest a total of $4.1 billion between 2011 and 2018 in cyber-security for industrial...
Black Hat Hacker Says Insulin Pump Maker Medtronic Belittles Security Flaw
At the Black Hat security conference earlier this month in Las Vegas, a security researcher stood on stage and demonstrated how a malicious third...
Fonality Launches Mobile Unified Communications, Contact Center App
Business communications specialist Fonality unveiled Heads Up Display (HUD) Mobile, an application designed for small and midsize businesses. Through the flexibility of Apple or...
Businesses Headed Deeper Into the Cloud: CompTIA Report
Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as businesses move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to research published...
Jobs and Woz
Jobs and Woz
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, they started off assembling computers in Jobs' parents' garage.
Apple II
Apple's early computers, including the...
AMD Gets Positive Feedback on New CEO
New Advanced Micro Devices CEO Rory Read is getting a lot of high marks from industry observers for his work at PC vendor Lenovo,...
Google+ Users Can Now Post From +1 Button
Google+ users can now share Webpages they like by clicking the now ubiquitous Google +1 button, which exists on more than 1 million Websites...
Apache Confirms DoS Vulnerability in Web Server, Promises Quick Patch
A denial-of-service tool that exploits a security flaw in the Apache Web server software is available in the wild. The Apache team is working...
RIM’s QNX Smartphones Will Support Android Apps: Report
Research In Motion will enable BlackBerry devices to use Google Android applications, according to a Bloomberg news report generating some buzz in tech circles.The...