Monthly Archives: October 2012
iPhone 5 Gets Strong Recommendation from Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports has come down hard on Apple in the past, but not this time. The iPhone 5 is "the best iPhone yet" and...
Google Warning of More State-Sponsored Cyber-Attacks
Google officials are sending out tens of thousands of new messages to Gmail users that their accounts may be targets of state-sponsored cyber-attacks, citing...
Facebook Moves On to Find Another Billion Users
Facebook announced Oct. 4 that it smashed through the 1 billion-user barrier, making it perhaps the first company in the history of the world...
T-Mobile, MetroPCS Merger May Invigorate Smallest National Carrier
When executives from Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS announced on Oct. 3 that the U.S. arm of T-Mobile and MetroPCS would accomplish a...
Samsung Galaxy Phones Help Company Beat Quarterly Profit Estimates
Mobile handset manufacturer Samsung surprised analysts by posting third-quarter guidance indicating a higher quarterly profit for the three-month period ending in September, with operating...
TMobile, MetroPCS Deal Leaves Sprint Scrambling
T-Mobile and MetroPCS have stated their commitment to a merger, but with the union far from finalized, Sprint is reconsidering whether it was right...
iPad Mini Unofficial Renderings Appear, Release Date Rumor Surfaces
Just days after a Wall Street Journal article reported production had begun on a long-rumored smaller iPad, informally dubbed the iPad Mini, a spate...
A Year into the Post-Jobs Era, Apple Looks as Strong as Ever
One way to know if a person made a relevant impact in his or her lifetime is when people write about how the world...
NetSuite Unveils Two-Tier ERP Application Paired With Oracle
Oracle partner NetSuite has introduced the NetSuite Two-Tier enterprise resource planning cloud-based software application that enables corporate subsidiaries to run a smaller-scale application that...
ScaleOut Introduces Analytics Server to Crunch Big Data
ScaleOut Software has introduced a new Analytics Server that it says does data analytics quickly by using in-memory data grid technology to process rapidly...