Monthly Archives: October 2011
iPad, Social Networking Driving Tablet Adoption: Pew
Eighteen months after the introduction of the Apple iPad, 11 percent of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind, according to...
Thin Clients, Fat Pipes Herald Post-PC World
Thin-client hardware devices are gaining processing power, codec smarts and management tools that combine with speed boosters from virtual desktop platforms and are mounting...
Appcelerator Bolsters Mobile HTML5 Expertise With Particle Code Acquisition
Appcelerator, maker of an integrated mobile platform for rapidly developing native and mobile Web applications using open Web technologies, today announced that it has...
PC plays Possum While Thin Clients Spit and Hiss
I'm wrapping up a look at thin client computing and the one thing that's clear is that "thick" client PCs are doing pretty well...
IBM’s Rometty to Take Big Blue Into Next 100 Years as New CEO
Virginia "Ginni" Rometty taking the helm of IBM is no surprise.IBM held out that there were three to four front runners for the position,...
Facebook Leading Twitter, LinkedIn in Mobile Users: comScore
More than 72.2 million Americans, or nearly one-third of the country, accessed Facebook, LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD), Twitter, or some other social network or blog from...
Businesses Suffer From False Sense of Cyber-Security: Symantec Report
The majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from ever-increasing cyber-security threats...
Small-Business Optimism Falls: Wells Fargo Report
In the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small-Business Index, business owners (surveyed Oct. 3 to 6) generated an optimism Index score of -3, a slight change...
IBM Names Virginia Rometty as New CEO
Virginia Rometty, IBM's senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company's next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Updates Aim Squarely at Salesforce
Microsoft is offering a service update for Microsoft Dynamics CRM with some new social-networking and cloud features, in a bid to keep the customer...