Monthly Archives: July 2012
Nokia Politely Tells Google, Asus: Time to Pay Up for Patents
Nokia, losing sales to Android-running smartphones and the Apple iPhone, has said it plans to be smarter about taking advantage of its considerable patent...
Microsoft Windows 8 Upgrades Cost $39.99 for XP, Vista or Windows 7 Users
Microsoft has announced that upgrades to Windows 8 from previous versions of the operating system will go for $39.99 via download and $69.99 if...
Life’s a Beach
Life's a Beach
More and more, despite attempts to leave it all behind, IT personnel are taking their work with them on vacations and even...
The Market Opportunity
The Market Opportunity
Despite the advances of technology, 92 percent of retail volume still takes place in the brick-and-mortar store.
Devices Galore
Gartner predicts that 1 billion...
Twitter: U.S. Tops List of Governments Requesting User Information
Taking a page from Google, Twitter released a report Monday, July 2 detailing the government requests for user information.As was the case with Google,...
Samsung Fails to Convince Judge to Lift Ban on Galaxy Tab, Nexus Sales
Samsung failed again July 2 in an attempt to stay a federal judges order that it stop selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet...
Amazon Cloud Outage Caused by Storms, Worsened by Software Glitches
Amazon Web Services lengthy outage over the weekend after powerful storms through the Mid-Atlantic region knocked out power has put renewed focus on the...
IBM’s Energy Program Saved $43M in 2011
IBM announced that it achieved strong sustainability results in energy conservation, data center energy efficiency and environmental responsibility to the tune of saving $43...
Tablet Shipments to Pass Laptops by 2016, Fueling PC Market Growth
Shipments of tablets such as the Apple iPad are on track to surpass shipments of laptops by 2016, NPD reported July 3. By 2017,...
NetBeans IDE 7.2 Release Candidate Available for Download
The NetBeans community has announced a release candidate of version 7.2 of the open-source NetBeans Java integrated development environment (IDE).NetBeans 7.2 will be the...