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Microsoft has lost its hold on the European Web browser market for the first time in years, reports Reuters . According to Web analytics firm StatCounter, Mozilla's Firefox 3 browser wrangled the to... More >
After a six-month pilot program, American Airlines announced plans to expand its 15-plane Wi-Fi rollout that began last summer. The airline will rollout inflight wireless Internet on more th... More >
At VoiceCon Orlando 2009, Cisco announced an entry-level telepresence system. The CTS 1300 targets small- to medium-sized businesses, branch offices and large enterprises with multiple conference roo... More >
Ericsson has unveiled a new broadband module with the aim of providing a more cost-efficient and user-friendly experience. The F3607gw mobile-broadband module for HSPA/GPRS/EDGE networks is slated to... More >
According to Gartner, French businesses are leading both German and UK businesses when it comes to software-as-a-service adoption. A survey conducted by the analyst firm found that 71 percent of Fren... More >
Google is opening up Gmail Labs to a wider global audience. The company announced that it will now be available to users in 49 different languages, reports PC World . The declaration comes on... More >
iatAvaya unveiled Aura, its new Session Initiation Protocol-based unified communications platform, today at VoiceCon Orlando 2009. The company claims the platform can aid companies in lessening the c... More >
Intel is scheduled to launch its Nehalem-based Xeon models geared for servers. According to InformationWeek , Nehalem EP processors will be available with four cores. Intel plans to release six- and... More >
Google is looking to attract Web developers to its Chrome Web browser with Chrome Experiments , a site with the goal of visually showing off its speedy JavaScript engine. Thom Holwerda at OS... More >
According to Byte and Switch , prices for NAND flash memory bottomed out at 85 cents per GB in 2008. Industry analysts do not expect a repeat of that in 2009. Apparently, NAND manufacturers are shif... More >
According to Forrester research, AOL was the highest rated Internet service provider (ISP) in terms of overall customer experience. The company achieved a 71 percent approval rating by the nearly 4,6... More >
Gartner is predicting major growth for cloud computing , reports Reuters . According to the IT analyst firm, global revenue for the cloud could eclipse $56. billion in 2009, a 21 percent increase f... More >
Thanks in part to a partnership with Skyhook Wireless, the Opera Browser now features Geolocation API support, says TechWhack. Skyhook's technology works by detecting Wi-Fi access points to determin... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , Huawei is close to cracking the U.S. market that has eluded it thus far. The Chinese telecom equipment vendor has landed a contract to provide gear for a cellu... More >
BSI British Standards has launched a new online assessment tool that allows manufacturers to assess their business continuity management (BCM) provisions by examining strengths and testing for weak a... More >
Volkswagen is looking to bring Fahrvergnügen to the supply chain. Following a one-year pilot program, VW announced plans to introduce RFID-enabled tracking across its entire supply chain with ... More >
According to 1E 's 2009 PC Energy Report, American organizations are spending $2.8 billion yearly to power PCs left on overnight. Roughly half the 104 million office PCs in the country are not prope... More >
Sprint's plans to deploy WiMax largely resemble those of its spun-off WiMax venture Clearwire . The company plans to launch WiMax services in 10 cities this year with at least another five to... More >
QNAP has launched two new NAS products largely targeted at home and SOHO consumers. The company claims its TS-219 Turbo NAS and TS-119 Turbo NAS are the world's first single-bay and dual-bay NAS ... More >
Dedicated server and managed hosting provider The Planet is expanding its range of services with the announcement of its new Storage Cloud service. Storage Cloud gives customers the option of how and... More >
Dell is not giving up on the data center space and is letting users and competitors alike know with the release of 14 new products that target cost-conscious companies. According to Dell, its new pro... More >
Google announced a couple of changes to its search engine today. It's added semantic search technology to improve its search results, says Computerworld . The technology refines search results by of... More >
Seagate expanded its lineup of BlackArmor hard drives with the addition of the BlackArmor NAS 420 and BlackArmor NAS 440. The company is targeting the small business and SOHO markets with its latest ... More >
Red Hat announced the availability of its JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 Portfolio Edition. The Eclipse-based developer toolset offers a development environment for rich applications and SOA applications... More >
Lenovo refreshed its workstation line with the announcement of two new computers based on Intel's upcoming quad-core Nehalem chips. The ThinkStaion S20 and D20 are expected to be launched during the ... More >
Samsung has joined the ranks of the high-end netbook sector with the announcement of its new NC310. According to Softpedia , the NC310 will boast a 10.1-inch LCD and five hours of battery life. The ... More >
Endeca , a search applications company, has released the latest version of its Information Access Platform . The McKinley release of the platform features a redesigned MDEX core, multi-core chips an... More >
Skype, a subsidiary of eBay, announced a new version of its Internet calling software for corporate networks. Skype for SIP allows users to make domestic and international calls using a regular offic... More >
Salesforce.com announced that it will add Twitter to its Salesforce.com Service Cloud . The new CRM application is geared to help organizations target customers who are more likely to use Twitter as... More >
Netbooks are one of the hottest categories in the personal PC sector and despite detractors , the devices are beginning to make the familiar consumer-to-business march. According to Byte an... More >
Idaho Power had been relying on a Sun StorageTek PowerHorn tape system to back up about 36TB of data on the weekend. When the tape silo reached time for its renewal the company shifted gears and deci... More >
After assigning blame to a routine OS upgrade for its 22-hour Azure outage last weekend, Microsoft has detailed major changes to the cloud computing platform at its Mix '09 conference in Las Vegas,... More >
Early adopters of Cisco's Unified Computing System strategy will have to purchase products directly from Cisco, at least initially. According to ChannelWeb , Cisco's new blade servers and other ge... More >
Despite its ongoing legal battle , Psystar debuted the Open(3). The desktop is the third the company has released with the Mac OS preinstalled, reports CNET News . For around $600, users can... More >
According to Digital Trends , Comcast is planning to launch its own mobile Internet service in Portland using Clearwire's WiMax network. The cable company intends to bundle the service along with it... More >
Sun Microsystems intends to throw its hat into the cloud computing ring at its CommunityOne developer event in New York today. Sun plans to offer its own cloud services as well as sell software and h... More >
Google has released a new beta of its Chrome Web browser for users in the beta channel. Beta versions for Chrome's stable and developer channels were made active previously. The new beta is similar... More >
HP announced that its entire line of thin clients is now certified for VMware View . The certification will ease deployment in a VMware environment for IT administrators. As companies continue to se... More >
Dell's sleek and sexy Adamo laptop, which the company calls "the world's thinnest laptop," is now available for pre-order and will begin shipping March 26. Available in onyx or pearl, the Adamo has a... More >
The Symbian Foundation has a new aggressive roadmap for its operating system. The foundation, which has vowed to make the software open source, plans to release a new update for the platform every si... More >
Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform has joined the crash club. The beta offering went down for 22 hours over the weekend. Microsoft's Steve Marx says the Azure team will conduct an analysis to... More >
Cisco is expected to unveil Project California later today. It is believed Cisco will make public a new blade server unit that includes the company's networking technology, reports TG Daily . The co... More >
Hewlett-Packard will offer Boston-Power 's three-year Sonata lithium-ion batteries in 70 percent of its consumer notebooks. HP will sell the Sonata technology as the "HP Enviro Series" for $149.99 a... More >
Alcatel-Lucent , MetroPCS , T-Mobile and Verizon are among the handful of vendors pushing LTE. However, Cablevision seems to be resuscitating municipal Wi-Fi to give both LTE and WiMax competiti... More >
According to DigiTimes , ARM-based platform makers, including Freescale and Qualcomm, intend to launch ARM-based netbooks at Computex Tapei this summer. Freescale plans to demonstrate a netbo... More >
Mozilla has released its Firefox 3.1 beta into the wild. The beta, the last before the version number switches to 3.5, includes significant performance and stability improvements to the TraceMonke... More >
An Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) survey of IT administrators found that 74 percent of respondents already using Macs plan to increase their Mac deployments, according to vnunet . Only 2 percent ... More >
Google renovated the Web-based phone service it acquired from its 2007 purchase of Grand Central and has unveiled it as Google Voice. One of the key features of the revamped service is its ability to... More >
DailyTech reports that Sun Microsystems is planning to integrate solid-state drives (SSDs) into its line of x64 blade servers. The company claims such a move will provide 70 percent faster reponse t... More >
The federal government's economic stimulus package is expected to trigger an increase in construction projects. If so, Dell may have just the laptop for contractors. Dell has launched a new ru... More >
At its Convergence conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced that a number of its new CRM add-ons and services would be made available for free. The company also announced a free Microsoft Dynam... More >
This week Microsoft introduced new technology to keep laptops cooler. The Network Cooling Base is expected to be available during July and retail for $29.95. According to PC Magazine , the device's ... More >
Seagate and AMD jointly announced a public demonstration of the first 6 gigabit-per-second Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. It's a mark that doubles the current standard for hard drive throughput. &nbs... More >
During its Q4 2008 earnings call, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff listed at least eight markets he expects the company to debut its WiMax coverage in by the end of the year. MobileBurn reports those market... More >
Times are expected to get tougher for the PC industry. Worldwide shipments are expected to dip 8 percent during the first half of 2009. According to bit-tech.net , the drop is influenced by large co... More >
Dell has released two new rack-mount server models for the data center. The PowerEdge 4220 and PowerEdge 2420 are designed to broaden the horizons of storage servers by expanding their reach to i... More >
The Windows Blog announced that Microsoft is making the release candidates for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 available for anyone to download and test. Previously, te... More >
A survey of 450 IT professionals in the U.S. and UK covering planned expenditures across 26 technology categories found that storage was the only sector poised for growth in 2009. Virtualization Jou... More >
Nokia has released Qt 4.5 , its new cross-platform application development framework. The Qt (pronounced cute) framework is seen as a bountiful opportunity for open source developers by this ITNews... More >
Amazon announced it is extending support of its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server into Europe. The service was initially made available for U.S. users... More >
Xandros announced the launch of its Presto instant-on platform for PC and laptops at Demo 2009 . The Linux distro reportedly boosts in seconds and is meant to supplement Windows, not replace it, acc... More >
A Panorama Consulting survey of 670 companies that have implemented ERP in the past three years found that SAP's customers are the most satisfied despite having higher costs and longer implementation... More >
According to Ina Fried at CNET News , Microsoft will begin internal testing of Kumo, its rebranded version of Live Search. Sataya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for Micro... More >
Apple quietly revamped its iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini yesterday. VentureBeat reports that the iMac now comes in four versions: a 20-inch entry level model and three 24-inch versions. The new ... More >
The Seattle Times reports that Microsoft is expanding its Online Services into Europe and Asia. Beginning in April, the service will be on trial in 19 countries across the two regions. Customers can... More >
AMD has unveiled plans for its next-generation, 32-nanometer manufacturing process. The company intends to finish testing its 32nm processors by the end of 2009 and start shipping them during the fou... More >
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