Monthly Archives: January 2012
Why Storage Was a Newsy Sector in 2011
Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data, you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn't...
Doctors’ Offices to Emerge As Heavy Tablet Buyers in 2012: NPD Group
Tablets will be a fixture in many doctors' offices in 2012, research firm NPD Group reports. About 75 percent of small and midsize medical...
Eclipse to Support Google Dart, Other New Languages
The Eclipse open source software development platform continues to be a hotbed for new projects and support for new environments; this year's EclipseCon event...
OpenSSL Fixes Six Flaws in the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol Tool
OpenSSL has fixed six security vulnerabilities and updated both 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 versions of the open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer protocol.The vulnerabilities...
SuVolta Gets $17 Million for PowerShrink Chip Platform
SuVolta, a Silicon Valley startup whose PowerShrink platform is designed to drastically reduce the power consumption in microchips, is getting another $17.6 million in...
Apprenda 3.0 Brings Private PaaS to .NET Developers
The corner of cloud computing known as platform as a service has been heating up over the past year, with new products and projects...
Google Tablet Would Have to Be Dirt Cheap and Great
The Google Nexus tablet rumor I wrote about here two weeks ago after Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt made some comments received new life...
Hackers’ Threat to Publish Symantec Source Code Not a Reason to Worry
A group of hackers has claimed that it has stolen the source code to Symantec's flagship antivirus product, according to a Pastebin post.This may...
Things I’d Like to See from the Appleverse in 2012
Santa was pretty good to me at Christmas, but what does he have in store for 2012? Here's my roundup of what I want...
Acer Iconia Tab A200 Arriving Jan. 15 for $329
Acer America Jan. 5 confirmed that it will make its budget-friendly Iconia Tab A200 Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet available for sale via U.S. retailers...