Monthly Archives: August 2011
War Texting Remotely Unlocks, Starts Cars at Black Hat
Modern automobiles are increasingly becoming more like computers, with features such as the in-car navigation system and multiple sensors tracking the fuel tank and...
Cloud-Based iWork a Must for Apple
It makes sense that Apple is apparently planning to make full-fledged web apps out of its iWork suite, as AppleInsider reported Tuesday; it's one...
Nimbus Scores Major-League Win in 100TB eBay Deployment
Use cases, which illustrate real life in IT better than almost anything else, are sometimes underrated as relevant data points. Most often they do...
Google+ Leads Apple iCloud in Developer Mindshare: Appcelerator
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social network edged Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iCloud as the Web service that developers believe will most facilitate the growth of mobile application...
Massive Five-Year Cyber-Attack Hit UN, US Government, Defense Contractors
Hackers penetrated the United Nations, technology companies, defense contractors as well as the United States and foreign government networks as part of a massive...
Apple’s iPhone 5, Other Smartphones Could Smack Against Carriers
Can Apple's iPhone 5, combined with iCloud and iOS 5, handle carriers' newfound love of throttling data?Considering Apple's increasingly speedy migration into the consumer...
Chrome 13 Stable as Google Pays 17K for Bug Fixes
Google has taken Chrome version 13 stable (technically Chrome 13.0.782.107), fixing several bugs and turning the search engine's new Instant Pages feature on as...
RIM’s Latest BlackBerry Smartphones Will Fail: 10 Reasons Why
Research In Motion on Aug. 3 announced five new BlackBerry smartphones that the company says, are vast improvements over their predecessors. The devices, which...
RIM’s New BlackBerry 7 Smartphones Offer Old and New
Research In Motion has a plan for reversing its sagging fortunes in the smartphone space. Starting sometime in 2012, the Canadian company plans on...
Gap Between Actual, Advertised Broadband Speeds Falling: FCC Report
A report from the Federal Communications Commission found the gap between advertised and actually broadband speeds has improved "substantially" compared with figures from 2009.On...