Monthly Archives: September 2011
Microsoft Windows: 10 Reasons This Operating System Still Matters
Looking around the operating system industry right now, IT professionals and everyday consumers will find a host of platforms from which to choose. Linux...
Google Flight Search Takes Off With ITA
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 13 revealed Flight Search, which lets users search for airline flights and fares right from Google.Google Flight Search is the first...
The IT Kettle Is Whistling
The water is boiling in datacenter land. In the space of two weeks I've covered the release of VMware vSphere 5.0 last month followed...
Cloud Foundry Makes Good Progress
The point of platform as a service is to enable developers to focus solely on their application code and data, leaving the maintenance of...
Cloud Support Makes mSecure Outstanding
I confess that years ago I gave up trying to remember my passwords, and since the days of dial-up, I've maintained a small notebook...
Google Search Falls Below 65% as Yahoo, Bing Gain
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) August U.S. search-engine market share dipped to 64.8 percent from 65.1 percent in July, according to comScore.No. 2 search-engine provider Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO)...
Executives Discussed Security Breaches, Attacks During APT Summit
In a closed-door summit on advanced persistent threats, CISOs, CIOs and CEOs revealed that their organizations had been breached at least once by sophisticated...
Cisco Systems CEO Sends Fightin’ Words to Competitors
Cisco Systems, which for years owned more than 50 percent of the Internet networking gear market but has lost some 10 percent of that...
Intel, Google Alliance Will Fuel Chip Maker’s Mobility Push
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel's partnership with Google around optimizing the Android operating system for its Atom platform could be a boon for the chip maker's ambitions...
AMD Claims Land Speed Record for Fastest Desktop CPU
Now the Guinness Book of World Records is judging performance in the central processing unit business.Advanced Micro Devices, which apparently needs all the publicity...