Monthly Archives: December 2011
ATandT Buys Time, but Little Else With Antitrust Trial Date Cancelation
AT&T has until Jan. 12 to decide whether it wants to proceed with its plans to buy T-Mobile USA by finding some way to...
AMD May Follow Intel’s Lead in Lowering Forecasts: Analysts
Intel's announcement that it is reducing its fourth-quarter revenue forecast due to hard disk drive shortages caused by the flooding in Thailand could have...
Apple iCloud, Microsoft Outlook and the Perils of Incompatibility
With much fanfare, Apple announced the availability of its iCloud service on Oct. 12 for Macs, PCs and iOS mobile devices. For the most...
Google Movie Search Gets Better on Android, iOS Devices
Google recently upgraded its movie search capabilities for Android smartphones and Apple iOS devices, making movie discovery along with their showtimes and theaters faster...
Hitachi Takes HDD Capacity Lead with 4TB Deskstar
This is undoubtedly making desktop storage device companies a little nervous: internal hard drives for desktops and laptops that keep moving up to larger...
Vendors Working to Add Manageability to Kindle Fire
So it seems that this year's hot technology gadget is the Kindle Fire. Although it seems to be dredging the ranks of potential customers...
Microsoft Delivers Silverlight 5
Microsoft has released Silverlight 5, the latest version of its tool for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the Web.Microsoft...
Microsoft Windows Azure’s New Open Source, Other Options Enhance Developer Experience
Microsoft has announced a series of updates to the Windows Azure platform to help developers build on the cloud computing platform, including new open-source...
Amazon Kindle Fire Will Receive Software Update: Report
Amazon is prepping a software update for its Kindle Fire tablet within the next two weeks, according to a report in The New York...
White House Sets Uniform Security Standard for Cloud Providers
The federal government has launched an assessment and monitoring program under which cloud providers have to commit to a certain level of security before...