Monthly Archives: December 2011
Apple MacBook Pros Could Adopt Retina Display: Rumor
Apple could be extending its high-resolution Retina Display to MacBook Pros, according to a new report."Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro...
Mobile Safety Common Sense: 10 Things You Should Never Do With a Cell Phone
The National Transportation Safety Board is making headlines, saying that it wants a nationwide ban on drivers using a cell phone while a vehicle...
iOS Beating Android 3-to-1 in Developer Project Starts
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system may power half the world's smartphones, but Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform is capturing developer mind share.New application-development projects for...
Alec Baldwin Incident Raises Questions About Airlines’ Device Policy
I watched a replay of the Dec. 6 news story reporting that actor Alec Baldwin had been thrown off an American Airlines flight in...
Microsoft’s SkyDrive App Arrives for iPhone
Although Microsoft dearly wants its Windows Phone platform to eat away at the audience for the iPhone, the company realizes Apple's hold over the...
Apple, Android Comprise 82% of Smartphone Market Share: NPD Group
Google's Android mobile operating system and Apple's iOS dominate the U.S. smartphone space, holding about 82 percent of the market, according to the latest...
Spam Declined in 2011 as Criminals Shift to Targeted Attacks
Criminals shifted away from building up botnet armies in favor of launching targeted attacks on specific corporate networks in 2011, according to security researchers.The...
Skype Adds Photo, Video Sharing to Android App
Voice over IP (VOIP) service provider Skype announced the latest version of its service for Google Android devices, Skype 2.6 for Android, which allows...
Jive IPO Jumps as Company Is Worth Nearly $700M
Jive Software (NASDAQ:JIVE), a provider of social collaboration platforms for large businesses priced its initial public offering at $12 a share, valuing the company...
Google Chrome 16 Stable With Multiple Account Sync
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) moved Chrome version 16 out of beta and into the stable channel Dec. 13, offering 15 bug fixes and adding the ability...