Monthly Archives: July 2012
Android Tablets Give NOR Flash Storage a Boost: IHS
Although the growth of NOR flash memory sales may be slowing down in mobile handsets and smartphones, tablet computers and embedded applications in the...
Sprint LTE 4G Network Now Live in 15 Cities
Sprint began offering 4G services in 2008, making it the first national U.S. carrier to do so, the company said as a reminder in...
YouTube Now Key Source for News Junkies: Pew
Since its online debut in early 2005, YouTube continues to grow as a news outlet for people who are expanding the ways in which...
Yahoo Names Google Exec Mayer as New CEO
Hopefully, Yahoo gets it right this time.The struggling search and Web services provider July 16 named longtime Google engineer and executive Marissa Mayer to...
Intel Buys Whamcloud for Supercomputing Efforts
Intel is bulking up its supercomputing capabilities by buying Whamcloud, a startup that is a proponent of the open-source Lustre parallel distributed file system.Intel...
Symantec Explains Why an Antivirus Update Crashed Windows XP Machines
Symantec has shed more light on why an update to its security software spawned the infamous "blue screen of death" for some of its...
Word 2012 Adds Alignment
Word 2012 Adds Alignment
Word 2013 gains the ability to align objects like pictures (akin to later versions of Microsoft Visio or PowerPoint), giving documents...
IBM Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Cure for the Common Cold
IBM technology is helping fight the common cold.Researchers in Melbourne, Australia, are now simulating in 3D the motion of the complete human rhinovirus (HRV),...
Samsung Edging Apple in Q2 Smartphone Sales, But Race Not Over
Samsung is increasing its lead over Apple, Reuters reported July 16, after some polling of the industry.The news organization is saying that Samsung sold...
OpenStack Open-Source Cloud Platform Celebrates Second Anniversary
OpenStack, a popular open-source platform for public and private clouds, celebrates its second anniversary this week.The OReilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) will hold an...