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Top 10: Google and Oracle boldly go to new markets Google entered the mobile phone market this week when T-Mobile rolled out the first handset running the search engine's Android mobile operating system. Oracle also ventured into new territory by announcing that it will sell a hardware product -- a database server the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Bill Gates retires, Symbian goes open source Microsoft, usually a source of software patch updates and claims about Vista adoption rates, produced a bit of sentimental news this week as Bill Gates stepped away from his daily corporate duties on Friday. Gates, who founded Microsoft at age 19, will now devote his Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Tech's all-time top 25 flops Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Microsoft grows hostile, Yahoo says nyah nyah We've been waiting all week for the other shoe on Microsoft's hostile takeover attempt to drop on Yahoo, which isn't waiting for that to happen and has forged an advertising agreement with Google as a way to hedge against the ongoing acquisition dispute. In other ne Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google woes This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country anxiously watching with sharp memories of Hurricane Katrina, which hit that Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Military goods for sale and miscreants aplenty Psssst ... Hey, you over there! Yeah, you. Wanna buy some F-14 components? According to the Government Accountability Office, purloined military equipment can be found online at eBay or Craigslist. Seems like it was a week for wild-and-woolly Internet-related news. SA Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords, including those at banking and brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we'll still be talkin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Intel antitrust redux, AMD change, network woes The European Commission amended its antitrust charges against Intel that were filed a year ago to include three new claims. While that news was expected, word that Hector Ruiz has been replaced as head of Intel rival AMD was not. That news broke on Thursday, which was Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Salesforce.com and Google execs blast Oracle, SAP, MS Salesforce.com and Google executives had fighting words for rivals Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, saying those vendors are late to the Web-hosted software party and will pay the price for it.Speaking on the panel "C Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: HP layoffs, Wall Street blues, Palin's hack The week got off to a rough start with the collapse of Lehman Brothers sending shudders through global financial markets and raising questions about whether there will be a ripple effect on the IT industry. After the market closed Monday, Hewlett-Packard added to the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Google plans, Windows 7, Dell busts Google talked about how it is expanding search capabilities and showed off its Android mobile platform at a conference this week, while Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer teamed to show off the multitouch screen technology of Windows 7 at another event. Meanwhile, a blogger Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Money meltdown, Ozzie's cloud, security worries At least those of us who are fans of professional baseball have the playoffs to take our minds off the grim news this week (at least that's the case for fans of the teams that are winning). The U.S. financial system meltdown smacked world markets and set off a whole l Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Moto split, Mac hack, Microsoft secrets Conferences this week put the spotlight on security news with a MacBook Air being hacked in two minutes during a competition and research finding that Microsoft patches holes faster than Apple. Otherwise, H-1B visas were back in the news, word seeped out that Microsof Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Spitzer falls, Bebo goes to AOL, Gates to D.C. 1. "Eliot Spitzer: High tech felt his impact" and "Oliver North ridicules Spitzer, calls on IT to hire war vets"It might not have seemed at first that the saga of almost-former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer had any connection to IT, but when he was attorney general Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Passport snoops, Verizon bids, Clarke dies 1. Obama passport records breached; IT system flagged violation : In what a U.S. Department of State spokesman called "imprudent curiosity," contract employees working for the department snooped into the passport records of U.S. Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Demo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google suggests safe harbor for wireless mics Google has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to carve out a set of off-limits channels for proposed wireless devices that could operate in unused television spectrum bands, in hopes that the proposal will help the FCC approve the use of so-called white- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Yang sums it up, iPhone goes 3G Yahoo CEO and cofounder Jerry Yang probably spoke for more people than he could possibly imagine when he said, "Clearly it is time to move on," at a news conference after the company announced talks with Microsoft have ended and there's no acquisition deal in the maki Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google launches white spaces campaign Google hopes a new Web site will help convince the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to allow a new generation of wireless broadband devices to connect via unused television spectrum.Google on Monday launch Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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DOJ opposition scuttled Google deal, Yahoo says The U.S. Department of Justice was planning to block Google's proposed advertising deal with Yahoo, leading to Google's announcement Wednesday that it was backing out, according to Yahoo.Google pointed to contin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google: OpenSocial party nearing start Almost four months after Google emerged from the background in social networking with its OpenSocial initiative, there is no shortage of skepticism around the project.The initiative, which will develop a common Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |