Monthly Archives: December 2012
Apple Maps Use Discouraged by Australian Police
Despite the sales success and glowing reviews bestowed upon Apple’s iPhone 5 handset, the company’s in-house maps application designed for the iOS 6 operating...
IBM Chips to Use Silicon Nanophotonics to Wrangle Big Data
IBM Research has announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.The Big...
IT Hiring Prospects Promising for 2013: Dice
While many jobs sectors and regions continue to deal with historically high records of unemployment, the tech industry and corresponding IT jobs market has...
Apple, Samsung Battle for Smart Device Market Share: IDC
In between strings of lawsuits accusing each other of patent infringement, consumer technology titans Samsung and Apple are locked in a heated battle for...
FCC Asks FAA to Allow Broader In-Flight Device Use
In a move likely to please anyone who has ever wanted to make a phone call while in flight, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius...
Judge Frustrated with Apple, Samsung Lawyers in Copyright Trial
Copyright violation litigation, especially involving IT companies with all of their technical and semi-technical legal definitions, brand positioning and additional technobabble, always seem to...
Sprint iPhone Owners in San Francisco Suffering Lousy Service
Sprint iPhone 5 owners in the San Francisco area aren't having the typical iPhone—or even Sprint—user experience. A recent iPhone speed test of the...
Identity Theft Is a Growing Risk in Health Care: Ponemon Report
Medical identity theft is a real threat and is on the rise, according to an annual survey on health care data security by the...
Google+ Introduces Online Communities to Bring People Together
Google is working to make its Google+ social platform even more useful for users by encouraging participants to build and nurture online communities about...
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Although an impressive number of startup ecosystems have been established around the world, Silicon Valley remains at the top of the list in...