Monthly Archives: August 2011
Focus, Photon 4G Face Off
Focus, Photon 4G Face Off
The Focus weighs only 4 ounces, compared with the Photon 4G, which weighs a hefty 5.6 ounces, largely to account...
Rock Beats Scissors, but Lightning Beats Cloud
It seems that the cloud's greatest enemy is lightning.Or at least, that's the conclusion I've reached after considering the latest outages affecting Amazon's and...
VTL, Mainfame Backup Back in Storage News at EMC
Here's a topic you don't see every day in the IT trade press--or in any press, come to think of it: Virtual tape backup...
German Technical Museum
German Technical Museum
Dedicated to transportation, manufacturing and technology, the museum boasts an impressive array of radios, phones, planes, sea-faring vessels and two whole locomotive...
Microsoft’s Global Smartphone Share Tumbles: Gartner
Microsoft's share of the global smartphone market continues to decline, according to an Aug. 11 report from Gartner.The research firm pegs Microsoft's share at...
DDoS Attack Knocks Out Hong Kong Stock Exchange News Website
Trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange remained suspended for a handful of stocks as a result of a distributed denial-of-service attack on its...
Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader Isn’t Doom for Apple’s App Store
Could Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader end up harming Apple's App Store?That seems to be a favored topic of discussion across the Web today. The...
Apple iPad 2 vs. Tablet Competitors: 10 Reasons Price Cuts Won’t Help
Price is vastly important in today's technology industry. With the economy the way it is and a growing number of people thinking more about...
IBM Exec: The End of the PC Era Is Here
IBM, already in the midst of celebrating its 100th anniversary, is about to hit another milestone: Aug. 12 marks the 30th anniversary of the...
Android Grabs 43.4% Smartphone Share as Nokia’s Wanes: Gartner
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) pulled a big reversal in smartphone market share for the second quarter.Google's Android mobile operating system was the leading...