http://www.informationweek.com/ InformationWeek en-us Copyright 2007, CMP Technology. Apple's new 21-inch iMac was October's best-selling desktop computer, according to retail analyst firm NPD. While sexy, the sales success was partially due to a slowdown in sales of competing PCs prior to the launch of Windows 7.

]]> Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:21:46 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST I am still dumbfounded by Comcast's decision to buy NBC, and I'm not sure it's because I know too much about the past...or have to little faith in the future. Or both.

]]> Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:29:12 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Yahoo Pipes is a way to mash up RSS feeds and Web pages into combined information, apply rules and filters, and publish it. When it launched Feb. 7, 2007, the Pipes API worked fine in principle. But as "Daniel" said from the audience at a San Francisco panel this week, Pipes wasn't ready to scale.

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:39:23 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:05:00 EST With the court case safely behind them, Verizon Wireless continues to pull no punches in its anti-iPhone marketing campaign. The latest assault takes on the masculinity of the iPhone, and essentially says that it has none. Them's fightin' words, Verizon!

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:45:08 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:35:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:23:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:35:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:19:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:51:00 EST Lots going on in the world of Research In Motion today. Some of the items you'll find in this post include a nifty sale going on at AT&T stores today as well as an upgrade to BlackBerry Apps World. More inside!

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:57:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:33:00 EST This week StoredIQ launched a new data assessment service, which is intended to help organizations get visibility into the unstructured information floating around the corporate network.

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:32:15 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:07:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:01:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:59:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:26:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:17:00 EST Verizon Wireless has said that the HTC Droid Eris will receive a significant system update at some point in the fist quarter of 2010. The update will boost the Eris' version of Android to at least 2.0, and possibly even 2.1.

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:54:53 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:00:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:40:00 EST InformationWeek readers were the first to learn about Intel’s efforts to pack a data center onto a single chip, via my recent interview with Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner. (See Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers.) Now, the chip behemoth has taken things one step further, formally announcing its single-chip cloud research project.

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:32:25 EST That's the feeling former MySQL shareholder and strategy adviser (and NoSoftwarePatents.com prime mover) Florian Muller has about Oracle's new peace offering to the European Union over MySQL. It isn't about giving MySQL real autonomy, but putting it in a whole new cage. ]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:30:19 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:13:00 EST Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST Windows Mobile 6.1 had been getting a bit long in the tooth. Not much had changed from the user's view since 2005 when WinMo 5 launched. WinMo 7 is what people are waiting for, but in the mean time, Microsoft released an update to the platform that had the most radical changes since WinMo 5 was released without the desktop style menu system. Microsoft appeared to give up on 6.5 even before it launched.

]]> Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:02:37 EST This evening I received an email from Verizon Wireless. It contained some welcome news for owners of the Motorola Droid. You see, Google has pushed out new SDKs for Android 2.0.1 and Android 1.6. This means the folks over at Motorola and Verizon can dig their hands into the code to fix the Droid's camera issue. Oh, and I have some info on the Droid BOGO event happening this weekend.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:30:01 EST What does it mean when the nation's largest Internet Service Provider, like Comcast, buys one of the biggest content creators in the world, like NBC? For one thing, it means the already contentious issue of Net Neutrality is about to get even more heated. Hopefully, it will galvanize the FCC to create and implement Net Neutrality rules that protect the interests of other companies doing business on the Internet.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:16:41 EST Business advisory service IDC issued a series of predictions for 2010 on Thursday and managed to say nothing at all that's surprising.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:38:07 EST Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:10:00 EST The average selling price of smartphones may be dropping these days, but that doesn't mean that contract plan prices have dropped, too. BillShrink put together a list of devices and what their total cost of ownership is. Check it out.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:59:02 EST Not all Web connections are created equal. It's with that in mind that Google offered up YouTube Lite today, called "Feather." Its promise is to get those videos playing faster, even if you have a flaky Web connection.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:05:13 EST As we described in the last few entries, adding storage software to standard servers or even to virtual servers is making more sense for a variety of data centers because of the increased performance capabilities of the Intel processor family. Despite this there may still be times in certain environments where there is a need for specialized storage hardware.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:59:52 EST Your business is kinda gritty so it's not really possible for you to offer a fancy-schmancy iPhone app, right? Wrong!! A new iPhone app from the AAMCO car-care chain "lets our customers take that peace of mind with them wherever they go by putting our expert technicians right on their phones."

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:42:00 EST For the US, it is generally assumed that the ultimate marriage between device and carrier would be the iPhone on Verizon. The iPhone is unquestionably the most popular single phone out there for consumers and Verizon is the largest network in the US with impressive coverage and a great 3G network. The iPhone though may be headed to T-Mobile first.

]]> Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:10:38 EST Using a Windows Mobile device? Like performing lots of searches when on the go? Need better performance all around? Get ready for a better Bing. It's free, and it's here today.

]]> Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:25:43 EST My post discussing a VDI pilot project in conjunction with netbooks produced a variety of responses. These readers chose not to post their comments to the public site, so I thought it would be a good idea to highlight two of the most interesting ones.

]]> Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:57:51 EST I sat down recently to chat with Juan Santana, chief executive of the largest security vendor you might not be familiar with. Yet Panda Security, founded in Spain in 1990, is huge in Europe and no slouch either in the United States, where it competes against the likes of Symantec, Trend Micro, Kaspersky, and McAfee. I talked with Santana amid the launch of Panda Cloud Protection Service, which moves threat analysis to the cloud and installs with a very small footprint on the client.

]]> Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:22:20 EST A Credit Suisse analyst has boosted his target price for Accenture shares from $42 to $55 on the expectation that enterprise IT spending is beginning to loosen up and that Accenture will be a prime beneficiary of CIOs' more-expansive spending habits and their increasing acceptance of outsourcing.

]]> Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:22:00 EST Images have appeared of what purport to be a new Android device from Motorola. One quick glance is all it takes to discern that this device is a non-keyboard version of the Droid. Closer inspection, however, reveals a truly unique feature: an HDMI out port.

]]> Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:35:14 EST In the second part of our three-part video interview series with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, we talked about the role technology can play in the transformation of a city, including addressing the growing digital divide, the progress on STEM in San Francisco, and the role the Bay area will play, as a hub of technology innovation, in helping lead the way to economic recovery.

]]> Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:12:35 EST The Harris County Hospital District of Houston, Texas, fired 16 employees, accusing them of violating patient privacy laws by inappropriately accessing the records of a medical resident who'd been admitted to the hospital after she was shot in a grocery store parking lot.

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