Monthly Archives: August 2012
Google Street View Offers Tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Google's Street View image collection just got its first true "out of this world" images with the addition of detailed photographs taken of retired...
NASA Mars Rover’s Latest Mission Is a ‘Go’ for Aug. 6
The next chapter of extraterrestrial exploration on the surface of Mars will begin early in the morning on Aug. 6 when NASA's latest Martian...
Smartphone Problems Experienced by Most Users: Pew Research
The smartphone idealhigh speeds! everywhere availability!and smartphone reality are still separate things, says a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American...
Samsung Galaxy Note ‘Phablet’ Debuting Aug. 29 in Berlin
Samsung plans to introduce its next Galaxy Note tablet at a Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in Berlin Aug. 29, a spokesperson for the company...
HP TouchPad Gets Early Build of Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Hewlett-Packards ill-fated TouchPad tablet may had only a brief shining moment as a webOS device, but Googles Android operating system is breathing new life...
Illinois Bans Facebook, Social Network Password Requests by Employers
Illinois has become the second state in the country to pass legislation banning companies from asking employees or job applicants for their login information...
ATandT Preparing for Major Wireless Spectrum Shift Within Five Years
In a pair of moves over the past two days, telecom giant AT&T has taken steps to gather the necessary spectrum to build out...
Comparing Microsoft Surface to Zune Music Player a ‘Low Blow,’ Analyst Says
The U.K.-based tech industry analyst firm Canalys got some media attention recently by predicting that the Microsoft Surface tablet will suffer the same fate...
Acronis, SolarWinds Add Backup, Recovery to vSphere
A couple of forward-thinking IT companies, disaster recovery/data protection provider Acronis and management software maker SolarWinds, have joined forces on a new project.The collaboration...
Dropbox Password Breach Highlights Cloud Security Weaknesses
The now well publicized Dropbox security breach was the result of two things that Dropbox could have foreseen, and could have prevented. The first...