Monthly Archives: December 2011
Adara Looks to Expand Health Care Interoperability With Virtualization
Adara Networks, a vendor that has provided IT services to the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, is targeting the health care space with...
Google Places Check-In Offers Available for Businesses
As I wrote last week, Google was preparing to let businesses offer check-in deals via the Google Places local search service.That's now come to...
There Are Toys Everywhere at ThinkGeek
There Are Toys Everywhere at ThinkGeek
A view inside a typical cube at ThinkGeek shows that the employees dont just sell this stuff; they use...
ThinkGeek Headquarters Bring Silicon Valley Culture to Capital Beltway
FAIRFAX, Va. - A visit to the headquarters of ThinkGeek, the phenomenally successful toy store for the technically and scientifically inclined begins as do...
RIM Explains How to Remove Carrier IQ From BlackBerry Devices
When Carrier IQ's mobile device monitoring software first came to everyone's attention after a security researcher demonstrated how it logged everything from text messages...
Triple Whammy
Triple Whammy
When a lightning strike caused a fire that sent a famous Caribbean island home up in smoke, the computer servers were burned and...
Amazon’s Kindle Devices Selling More Than 1 Million per Week
Amazon is selling Kindle devices at a rate of 1 million per week, according to the company. The online retailer revealed those sales numbers...
Luring Android Users to Windows Phone 7: 10 Things Microsoft Must Do
Microsoft finds itself in a very bad spot in the mobile market. The company's chief competitor, Android, is running away with the smartphone market....
Google+, iPhone 5, Steve Jobs Pace Google Zeitgeist
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) 2011 Zeitgeist of popular, fast-rising search terms ranged from the usual gamut of muckety-muck celebrities to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Irene...
Microsoft Tightens Up Office 365 With HIPAA, EU Data Privacy Protection
Microsoft says it has added compliance to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and European Union data privacy regulations in its...