Posted by: serious96 on: April 24, 2009
A few days after Yahoo announced it would lay off nearly 700 workers, Yahoo is shutting down GeoCities, which it acquired in 1999 for $4 billion. GeoCities is the latest casualty in Chief Executive Carol Bartz’s campaign to close duplicative and underperforming products. Last week, Yahoo announced the closing of Jumpcut, an online video-editing service, [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 24, 2009
Move over, McDonald’s; Apple is gaining on you! On Thursday, the App Store reached one billion downloads. Apple thanked we consumers for the downloads, and now we’re on to the next billion, right? Palm can only hope that its upcoming App Catalog will be even slightly as successful. The fact that the Palm Pre will [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 24, 2009
For years, many people have believed that Macs are immune to malware, viruses, and worms that have wrought havoc on PCs. In reality, however, OS X is potentially just as vulnerable to harmful programs. The difference lies in the fact that hackers generally go after what will give them the biggest bang for their buck. [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 24, 2009
History has shown that Advanced Micro Devices doesn’t have the greatest track record for delivering chips as promised (at least right on schedule), but the company’s looking to make a change for the better starting with its highly anticipated six-core Istanbul. Said CPU, which falls in the Opteron family, promises to provide up to 30 [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 20, 2009
MSI StarCam Flip Webcam Taipei, TW – Worldwide high-end graphics card and professional motherboard brand-manufacturer, MSI International, today unveils the company’s flagship StarCam Flip webcam. With a built-in glass-lens with a “true” 2.0 megapixel high quality sensor and highly sensitive USB microphone, MSI StarCam Flip ensures the best image and communication quality. MSI StarCam Flip [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 20, 2009
According to recent reports, a dedicated Hulu application could be available for the iPhone in just a few months. The application will reportedly work over Wi-Fi and AT&T’s 3G network, thereby enabling users to view programming anywhere a fast data connection is available.
Posted by: serious96 on: April 20, 2009
WD Ships 2 Terabyte Enterprise-Class Hard Drives With Next-Generation GreenPower Technology WD RE4-GP Hard Drives Further Reduce Power Consumption For Data Centers and Digital Video Production Facilities LAS VEGAS, Nev. – (NAB Show Booth No. SL12809) – Apr. 20, 2009 — Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today expanded its enterprise family of hard drives to include the [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 20, 2009
Globalization is wonderful, and does no harm anywhere, that’s what we’ve been told. But a new study, titled “H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and the Wages of US Information Technology Workers” by Prasanna B. Tambe of New York University – Stern School of Business and Lorin M. Hitt of University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School aims [...]
Posted by: serious96 on: April 18, 2009
YouTube on Thursday took aim at its biggest competitor, Hulu, announcing it would begin offering movies, TV shows and content from studios such as Crackle/Sony Pictures, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz, the BBC, Anime Network, Cinetic Rights Management, Current TV, Discovery, Documentary Channel, First Look Studios, IndieFlix, National Geographic and more.
Posted by: serious96 on: April 18, 2009
Full Disk Encryption Comes to Solid State Drives Lee, MA and San Jose, CA: Wave Systems Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have collaborated to give professionals on the go the ultimate in hard drive security. Along with blazing speed, ultra-fast boot-up and silent operation, Samsung’s new self-encrypting SSDs automatically encrypt information as it’s saved [...]
