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Apple’s view of the tablet is now the accepted model, but one that most commodity competitors still haven’t figured out A commodity play struggles in an unformed market Ironically, the fact that tablets are new should have given Samung, HP, RIM, Acer, Dell, and everyone else a shot at standing […]
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Sending your IT business to the cloud comes with risk, as those affected by these 10 colossal cloud outages can attest Is that a reason to run, arms flailing, away from anything cloud-connected? Probably not. But it is a reason to look carefully at your own data safeguards and think […]
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LXE announced a rugged handheld computer that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 or CE 6.0, targeting supply chain applications. The Tecton includes an 806MHz Marvell PXA320 processor, a 3.5-inch screen with 320 x 240 resolution, 256MB of RAM and 256MB of flash storage, and an optional version that works down to […]
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Google said Friday that it would retire Google Health and Google PowerMeter, neither of which achieved the critical mass that Google felt would be necessary to continue it. In the case of Google Health, the site will remain operational until Jan. 1, 2012. From then until Jan. 1, 2013, users […]
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Companies and bloggers that run their own WordPress installations should make sure that they have not downloaded any of three popular plugins that were, for about 24 hours, playing host to malicious code, WordPress creator Auttomatic warned. Best Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com “The WordPress […]
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system will have gained only seven percent market share by 2016, according to ABI Research. This paints a very different picture from rival research firm IDC, which recently claimed Microsoft would have 21 percent market share by 2015. Google’s Android operating system will rise to […]
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Microsoft will release 17 bulletins next week to fix 64 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, and .NET Framework. Microsoft’s massive “April Patch Tuesday,” which includes patches to a “critical” bug in Windows XP, will tie the record for the most security bulletins released at one time, […]
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GuestLogix announced a Windows-powered handheld computer that lets airline flight attendants sell goods and accept payments via credit or debit cards. The Avata-m includes a 3.5-inch touchscreen for PIN entry and other functionality, an MSR (magnetic stripe reader), a 1D/2D barcode scanner, plus local and wide area networking, the company […]
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No less than Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has argued that the app store model is fracturing the Internet and that developers should write programs for browsers instead. But USENIX panelists said it’s all about cash. For better or worse, the app store model is favored by developers because it lets […]