Monthly Archives: December 2011
IBM: More Than 1,000 Schools Teach Mainframe Skills
IBM announced that more than 1,000 schools around the world are teaching students mainframe skills, both assisting students in getting jobs in big systems...
Open Air
Open Air
In contrast to other Apple stores, which are necessarily closed to the outside world, the bulk of the Grand Central location is in...
Microsoft Plans Patches for 20 Bugs in December Patch Tuesday
Microsoft plans to patch 20 vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system for both the desktop and the server, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Publisher...
HP’s webOS Becomes Open-Source Project
Hewlett-Packard has finally come to a decision about the fate of webOS, months after its efforts to load the software platform onto tablets and...
Facebook Launches HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP
Facebook has introduced a new virtual machine for PHP called the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) that it is sharing with the development community.In 2010,...
Nokia, Microsoft Pin U.S. Hopes on Windows Phone
One of the big questions for mobile in 2012 is whether Nokia's partnership with Microsoft will help Nokia regain a successful entry into the...
Apple’s Grand Central Terminal Store a Testament to Steve Jobs
Apple's new store overlooking Grand Central Station's Main Concourse is the company's fifth retail outlet in Manhattan. Located on the wide terrace overlooking the...
Google+ Gets Find My Face Facial Recognition Feature
The Google+ team has been hard at work, adding well over 100 features since launching the platform June 28 and releasing it to public...
New Means to Secure DNS Traffic Looks Promising
If I had to pick the most vulnerable part of the Internet, my choice would be DNS. It's far too easy to spoof, and...
Verizon 4G LTE Network Restored After Outage
Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network is back up and running after an outage Dec. 7 that directed many 4G customers to 3G services.After a...