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Netbook Boom Likely To End With Better Economy
The mini-laptops optimized for Web surfing and costing as little as $300 have experienced a boom for more than a year.
IBM Launches Appliance For Private Cloud Computing
IBM is the first major vendor to produce a cloud appliance for its customers, a sign of how the concepts of private cloud computing are changing.
Apple Turning To Chip Design For Its Innovation
Apple's plans for all this design power are likely to revolve around video and power consumption, and will boost the company's desire for secrecy.
GPS Evidence Too Unreliable For Legal Purposes
GPS devices can be easily jammed and their data can be spoofed, particularly when tied to cellular systems, experts argue.
AT&T, Hertz Putting Wireless In Rental Cars
The partnership will let drivers remotely connect with Hertz employees to locate and unlock vehicles, as well as to provide tracking and driving time.
Bill Would Shift Government Cybersecurity Requirements
The U.S. Information and Communications Enhancement Act of 2009 would require more continuous monitoring of systems and effectiveness of agencies' cybersecurity measures.
iPhone Users Willing To Pay For Applications
Users of BlackBerry, Nokia, and HTC smartphones are far less likely than iPhone users to download applications to their devices.
Slacker For BlackBerry Hits 1 Million Downloads
The success of the music-streaming app is another sign that BlackBerrys are gaining popularity with an audience that's not exclusively corporate users.
Shopping Service Opens Up On Twitter
There is a new account on Twitter that gives you shopping assistance and since Twitter works on your mobile phone, this can be a useful companion when looking for something or when you have a question about a product. You just send @imshopping your question, in 140 characters of course, and it will respond with the information you are looking for.
Verizon Seeks Extension For Alltel Spinoff
The company says it needs more time to divest in wireless assets it obtained from Alltel because of difficulties related to the economic climate.
Google Granted Floating Data Center Patent
Google is considering floating data centers because of the practical problems it faces in trying to locate data centers on coastal land, where real estate is typically expensive.
Meet The Palm Eos, Follow-Up To The Pre
Palm may not have announced it, but a new device called the Eos has been spotted on the Internet. It's thin, it's sexy, and it just might be more exciting than the Pre.
Mobile Phone Shipments Dip In First Quarter
The first quarter's decline was especially sharp this year because of weak demand and lack of credit, but smartphone growth continues to defy the recession.
A Great Guide To Picking The Right Linux Distro
Choice is empowering -- but too many choices can be overwhelming. The key to succeeding with Linux is to avoid the latter without sacrificing the former.
Motorola CEO: 'Android-Based Devices' On Track For Late 2009
Today Motorola filed its first quarter earnings. Buried within the report was a juicy gem about the company's plans regarding Android devices, which CEO Sanjay Jha said will be available in time for the holidays. (Oh, and handset sales fell a whopping 45%.)
Motorola Bets On Android As Mobile Slide Continues
Lagging behind T-Mobile's G1 handset, Motorola vows it will have an Android phone in stores in time for the fourth-quarter holiday season.
BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.141 Leaked Onto Interwebs
What feels like mere hours after we first learned about the existence of Storm firmware 4.7.0.141, it appears the Internet Gods have delivered it for your downloading pleasure.
Sony Expected To Unveil New PSP In June
The handheld console likely will be called the PSP Go! and will be available with either 8 GB or 16 GB of flash memory.
Apple May Be Prepping For Blu-Ray
The beta pre-release version of ITunes that shipped to developers late Tuesday may hold the key to Apple's future plans.
Steve Jobs Opts Out Of Town Meeting
Preservationists are seeking to save from demolition Jobs' 14-bedroom, 17,000-square-foot house in Silicon Valley.
A Plethora Of Pre News
I'm still waiting for some official word on when Palm's Pre is coming out, but a few items leaked this week that may point to a price. There's also speculation that Palm may cap the stock of the handset when it's released to create a buss. That's right, we may face Wii-like scarcities.
Time Warner Ready To Spin Off AOL
The fate of the partnership may be decided at an all-hands meeting at AOL's ancestral headquarters in mid-July.
Down To Business: Are Execs Twittering Their Time Away?
Clearly, the rules of social networking engagement are still evolving. Either these tools are shedding light on business issues, or they're just a distraction.
Cisco Seeks An Edge In The Blade Market
Its Unified Computing System was designed with removing I/O bottlenecks in mind.
Companies Push The Limits Of Virtualization
New software, hardware, and networking systems let IT managers stung by the recession go further with server consolidation.
Our Virtual Test Drives
Vendors had to virtualize older servers, new gear in real-world tests.
Save Money, Save The Planet
With virtualization, both kinds of green are in play.
Rolling Review Wrap-Up: Server Virtualization
Five offerings show technology is ready for prime time whatever your OS or price point.
7 Netbooks That Will Surprise You
More memory, more powerful processors, and larger displays aren't the half of it. Some features manufacturers are adding to netbooks may really surprise you.
Mobile Operators Think Differently To Beat Recession
The carriers have seen steady revenue and growth during tough economic times because of smartphone growth and the fact that many users see cell service as a necessity.
Acer Could Replace Dell As World's No. 2 PC Maker
Despite reporting disappointing first-quarter financial results and lowering its netbook shipment forecast, Acer is still growing while Dell's performance is suffering.
IT Helps Seal Our Borders
The economic stimulus package includes about $980 million aimed at beefing up surveillance of our borders. Much of that fuels a huge bet that technology projects can help secure them.
Energy-Efficiency Metrics Are The First Step
Accurate measurements can help IT save power and money, but plan carefully to avoid false starts.
Nokia's App Store Will Require Credit Cards
The company couldn't get carrier billing in the United States but thinks the social networking and location-based aspects of its Ovi Store will help it gain widespread adoption.
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 Adds Voice Memo Recorder
Late Tuesday, Apple made a fourth beta version of the iPhone 3.0 operating system available to developers. One new feature spotted in the software is a voice-recording application.
Google Tracking System Suggests Swine Flu Is Spreading
Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico shows increases in flu-related queries in Mexico City and several other Mexican states during the April 19-25 time period.
Eucalyptus Open Source Private Cloud Project Goes Commercial
With a $5.5 million investment from Benchmark Capital, Eucalyptus is preparing to sell deployment, consulting, and maintenance services for its open source software.
Microsoft: We're Not Making A Phone
The company denies recent reports that it's working on a "ZunePhone" for Verizon Wireless, and it will focus on upcoming Windows Mobile upgrades.
25% Of Companies Increasing IT Investments
More than 69% of respondents say their companies see at least half the expected value from their IT investments.
IBM Helps Arkansas With Real-Time Monitoring Of Stimulus Funds
The state's Department of Education is on track to receive nearly $570 million in stimulus funds over the next six months.
Twitter Users' Loyalty As Brief As Their Posts?
The most popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace, have much higher user retention rates than Twitter.
The Palm Pre Costs Less To Build Than The iPhone, Storm And G1
The price point of the Palm Pre has been a much-debated topic ever since the phone was announced. iSuppli hasn't coughed up that nugget of information, but has estimated that the Pre costs a mere $138 to manufacture.
Microsoft: We're Not Making A Zune Phone For Verizon Wireless
The Internet has been rife with a bevy of reports recently concerning new smartphone hardware (codename "Pink") from Microsoft. In response to the reports, Microsoft said in plain English: "Microsoft is not going into the phone hardware business."
Microsoft's Tellme Voice Service For Windows Mobile
Microsoft's Tellme subsidiary is announcing a voice service that will be available to carriers and manufacturers for free for use on Windows Mobile 6.5 this fall. Users will be able to push a button on their phone to activate the service and say things like "Text Steve Jones" and the device would open up the SMS application, create a new message and pre-address it to Steve Jones.
Motorola Ex-CFO Drama Continues
Today, Motorola's former CFO, Paul Liska, formally denied the allegations that he ran a data scrubber on his company-issued laptop to destroy evidence. Meanwhile, Motorola calls the whole thing an "extortion campaign."
Global CIO: Upheaval In The IT Industry: The End Of The World As We Knew It
The old model where hardware was hardware and software was software is gone, finished, and not to be seen again.
More Companies Requiring IT Security Certification
The study reflects responses from more than 1,000 IT employees.
Mobile Apps To Hit $25 Billion By 2014
Handset makers will receive the bulk of the revenue selling apps to smartphones, but carriers have an opportunity to bring app stores to entry-level and feature phones.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Improves RFID Data Collection
Devices may now reliably upload RFID data through a periodic or occasional connection to BizTalk Server, as opposed to a continuous connection.
Graphic Chip Sales Brighten PC Market Outlook
The big winners in the PC market were Intel and Nvidia, which saw quarter-to-quarter growth of 7.5% and 4.8%, respectively.
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