Monthly Archives: December 2012
FCC Moves to Implement Text-to-911 Nationwide
A 13-year-old girl in York County, Va., near Williamsburg, looked out her window and to her horror saw a gang of burglars breaking into...
Apple Dominance, Tablet Demand Shift Supply Chain: NPD
The competitive landscape in the mobile PC market—which includes tablets, notebooks, netbooks and hybrid devices—is rapidly changing thanks to increased tablet adoption, Apple's strong...
Yahoo Unveils Revamped, Sleeker Yahoo Mail Services
Yahoo is rolling out faster, better-designed and sleeker email services, all bearing the backing of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who joined the company July...
BlackBerry 10: 10 Reasons It Will Have Trouble Getting Off the Ground
Research In Motion is in some trouble in the mobile market. The company’s BlackBerry operating system, while popular years ago, has been largely ignored...
Facebook Teams With Federal Authorities to Bust $850 Million Botnet
Federal authorities joined forces with the Facebook security team to catch 10 people accused of being involved in a massive $850 million cyber-crime operation.The...
Newcomer Kaazing Upgrades Backbone for Tibco Messaging
An unusually named new company called Kaazing and the more well-known Tibco are waging a war on data-movement latency.Even a tiny bit of latency...
FreedomPop Takes on Cable Companies with Free Internet Offer
FreedomPop is going after the Internet customers of Comcast, Time Warner and others with a compelling offering: free in-home wireless Internet service at 4G...
AT&T Demonstrates Wireless Asthma Sensor
AT&T has demonstrated a wireless sensor called Asthma Triggers to detect the levels of harmful chemicals in the air and feed the data over...
ManageEngine Adds Storage Monitoring to DCIM Package
eWEEK has written often about "control of the data" as being IT's biggest challenge as enterprises roll into the new year awash with huge...
Whitney Houston, Gangnam Style, Hurricane Sandy Top Google Searches in 2012
Whitney Houston's volatile personal life and her tragic death in February topped the list of Google searches in 2012, both globally and in the...