Monthly Archives: August 2011
Hitachi Launches New Line of Enterprise SSDs
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Hitachi's global storage division, needing to find a way to keep up with the constant advances in NAND flash at...
Opera ‘Oupeng’ Mobile Browser Targets Chinese Market
nHorizon Innovation Software, a joint venture between Opera Software and Telling Telecom, has announced Oupeng, a new mobile browser for the Chinese market.Oupeng features...
Google Misdirection in Patent Protests Part of the Game
I've been following the Android mobile patent crusades closely, largely with the aid of Florian Mueller and others who have been kind or fervent...
iPad Leads Android, Other Tablet Makers in Europe: Forrester
Tablets based on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform and other operating systems have a better shot at challenging Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad in Europe, but they're...
Facebook Messenger Comes to iPhone, Android Via Beluga
Facebook on Aug. 9 launched a new messaging application for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android smartphones, a program that extends Facebook Messages from the...
Nokia Betting Everything on Windows Phone in U.S.
Live in the United States? Have your eyes on a Nokia smartphone running Symbian?Tough luck.According to reports, the Finnish phone maker is planning to...
Microsoft Fixes 22 Flaws in August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released 13 security bulletins addressing 22 unique vulnerabilities for its August Patch Tuesday update.Of the 13 bulletins, two were rated as "critical," nine...
RIM QNX ‘Superphones’ May Not Be So ‘Super’
What defines a "superphone?"For Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM), superphones are essentially code for newfangled smartphones based on the company's QNX operating system, the well-regarded...
Windows 7 Present on 42% of PCs by End of 2011: Gartner
Microsoft's Windows 7 is primed to become the world's leading operating system by the end of 2011, according to a new research report from...
VMware vSphere 5 — Rise of the Virtual Machines
Before I describe my conversion of eWEEK Labs test infrastructure from VMware vSphere 4.1 to the yet-to-be released vSphere 5, I'll summarize the basics...