Monthly Archives: November 2011
Redundant Power Systems No Longer Beyond Reach of Small-Scale Data Centers
When I visited the data center for1&1 Internet, a huge hosting and cloud services provider located in Lenexa, Kan., I was struck by the...
Google Quietly Supportive of Adobe’s Move to Muffle Flash
When Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) vowed to cease developing its mobile Flash Player plug-in for phones and tablets earlier this month, the temptation to think Google...
HP Beats Street Projections, Whitman Promises ‘No More Surprises’
Hewlett-Packard's new CEO, Meg Whitman-as well as the company's embattled board of directors, 324,000 employees and shareholders-breathed easier Nov. 21 after the company turned...
1and1 Internet Builds Massive Green Data Center for SMB Cloud Services
LENEXA, KANSAS - Somewhere in an anonymous building located in a cluster of equally nondescript buildings on the Kansas prairie, 1&1 Internet has built...
Poor Passwords, Weak Software Make SCADA Systems Vulnerable to Attack
Security professionals have been sounding the alarm about protecting critical infrastructure from cyber-attackers for a while, and recent incidents show that attacks are very...
Fire vs. Plus
Fire vs. Plus
The Kindle Fire is on the left. Note the square shape compared to the Tab Plus' rounded edges, which is typical of...
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Gaining Apps: Report
Microsoft's Windows Phone could rack up 50,000 apps in its marketplace in January 2012, according to a new estimate from the blog All About...
Jelastic Launches Java PaaS for Hosting Service Providers
Jelastic, a new startup, has announced its namesake flagship product, which it refers to as a next-generation platform-as-a-service technology.The new PaaS offering is for...
Ice Cream Sandwich Getting Good Marks on Galaxy Nexus
Google's Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" has hit the streets, at least in the U.K., where Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone launched last week.Google seeded...
RIM’s BlackBerry Impacted by Apple iPhone 4S Sales: Report
Research In Motion has been impacted by the launch of Apple's iPhone 4S and faces slowing sales of BlackBerry OS 7 devices ahead of...