Monthly Archives: January 2013
Google, Facebook May See Tougher Data Use Rules in Europe
Internet giants like Google and Facebook may find more limits on what they can do with the personal information they collect from their customers...
Message Bus Taps Joyent Cloud for Quadruple Performance Gain
Cloud infrastructure provider Joyent announced that Message Bus, a pioneer of cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, is able to run its...
Lenovo Unveils 6 Smartphones for Businesses, Consumers
Lenovo is rolling out an expanded new line of smartphones to take on iPhones, Microsoft Windows phones and Android devices, but American consumers are...
Attacks on Banks Continue, U.S. Officials Suspect Iran: Reports
Distributed denial-of-service attacks have continued to hamper the online operations of major financial institutions, but two reports shed light on the motivations of the...
iPad to Lose Crown, Tablets to Outsell Notebooks in 2013: NPD
The iPad has dominated the tablet market since Apple introduced it and doing so established the market. But in 2013 that's going to change,...
Microsoft Messenger Faces Ides of March Shutdown
It's official. Microsoft is shutting down its Live Messenger service March 15.Come mid-March, Messenger's estimated 100 million users—with the exception of those in mainland...
Dish Outbids Sprint for Clearwire, but With ‘Inferior’ Offer
Sprint's future became a bit more uncertain Jan. 8 after satellite television company Dish Networks made an unsolicited bid to purchase the shares of...
eWEEK To Host Tweetchat Jan. 16 on ‘Analytics in the Cloud’
eWEEK is moving into some new-media interactive events, and you are invited to participate.On Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time/2 p.m....
Ericsson Delivers WebRTC-Based Development Platform
Ericsson has announced a new Web development platform that will enable any connected device to be turned into an always-open communications device.The company's new...
Ideaphone K900
Ideaphone K900
The K900 is 6.9mm thin (the Apple iPhone 5, for context, is 7.6mm) and made of a "low-magnetic stainless steel and polycarbonate Unibody...