Monthly Archives: November 2011
Elastic Application Platforms Emerge
Elastic Application Platforms Emerge
This signifies the rise of elastic applications, which represent a fundamentally new architecture to accommodate variable scale. The platform for this...
Appro, Penguin Use Newest AMD, Intel Chips in HPC Systems
Appro and Penguin Computing are both leveraging the newest chip technologies from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel for high-performance computing systems.Appro officials on Nov....
Motorola Xoom 2, Media Edition Tablets Coming to U.K., Ireland
Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) said it will launch two new Xoom tablets into the European market in a bold announcement that comes a week after...
Google News, Google+ Marry to Show Journalists Love
What do you get when you cross Google+ with Google News?For journalists, you could get a big bump in visibility if you play Google's...
Browser-Based Design
Browser-Based Design
The winners were Andrew Mangold and Josh Hepworth from the Maryland Institute College of Art, for Crowdstorms. Mangold created a tool and online...
Microsoft’s Courier Tablet Deserved to Die
Should Microsoft have kept its Courier tablet project alive?In April 2010, Microsoft announced its decision to kill the in-development project, which involved two touch-screens...
Google Search Now Offering 360-Degree Store Views
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is sprucing up its search engine by cramming more information from Google Places businesses into its search results pages.When users search Google.com...
Barnes and Noble’s Nook Faces Muscular Amazon Kindle Competition
Barnes & Noble could be readying a tablet response to Amazon's new Kindle Fire, a 7-inch device capable of playing video and music in...
Google Chrome Tops 17% Share, Guns for Firefox
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome Web browser enjoyed its biggest monthly market share boost ever and could pass Mozilla's Firefox browser in early 2012, according to...
BlackBerry BBX OS: Will It Be Enough to Save RIM?
There was a time not too long ago-in 2006-when just about everyone had a BlackBerry. I know I did. It was the "gold standard"...