Monthly Archives: September 2013
Orbital Launches Space Station Resupply Mission From Virginia Spaceport
Orbital Launches Space Station Resupply Mission From Virginia Spaceport
by Wayne Rash
Loading the Supplies
Engineers from Orbital Sciences load the supplies that will be carried to...
CIOs, CMOs Battle Over Mobile Strategies: Netbiscuits
There is a battle brewing in the C-suite over the way corporate mobile strategy gets decided, and chief marketing officers (CMOs), chief information officers...
Microsoft’s Future Glimpsed at Analyst Meeting
Top executives from Microsoft held a gathering on Sept. 19 in Bellevue, Wash., to discuss the company, its vision and the state of its...
Icahn: Dell Is an Example of a Larger Problem at U.S. Companies
The vote earlier this month enabling Michael Dell and his financial partners to buy the namesake company for about $25 billion and take it...
Sprint One Up Is the Cheapest Monthly Device Payment Plan Yet
Sprint, as anticipated, joined T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and AT&T in making it simpler for subscribers to upgrade their smartphones more frequently.On Sept. 20, in...
Apple Executive Could Be Key to Google Calico Success
With Google announcing a new venture into health care with the launch of Calico, soon after pulling the plug on Google Health, the company...
Reaction to Nirvanix Shutdown Reiterates Importance of Backup
Nirvanix is a cloud storage service provider with a lot of promise. It has smart technology, smart people running it, previous VC backing and...
Google Fiber Challenge: What Apps Can You Build for Gigabit Internet?
Google Fiber will co-host a three-day conference in November that will bring together developers who want to create new applications that will be able...
Hacking TouchID Could Bring a Bounty of Almost $20,000
A crowdsourced effort to spur interest in breaking Apple's latest security enhancement to the iPhone—the TouchID fingerprint sensor—has resulted in an ad hoc bounty...
OpenStack Grows Cloud Training Marketplace
The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is a rapidly growing effort that is driving increasing demand for skilled professionals who know what it's all it...