VMware has finally joined Microsoft, IBM and Oracle as one of the four horsemen in the market for platforms for building, running and managing corporate and cloud applications. With its SpringSource acquisition, VMware can now compete with specialized platform-as-a-service offerings like Microsoft’s Azure. In… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
After installing the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview (msft), OneNote 2010 was the first application I fired up. While OneNote grew in popularity from Office 2003 to Office 2007, the impending release of OneNote 2010 is going to offer longtime users… Read More »
While most iPhone users are aware of unofficial unlock methods, you may be surprised to discover that it’s possible to legally unlock your device, courtesy of Apple. The above image is the not-often-seen official unlock notification, as displayed in iTunes. The dialogue succinctly confirms that the user’s… Read More »
Hutchinson Wampoa Chairman Li Ka-Shing participated in Spotify‘s recent financing round and took a stake in the European music streaming web site, Forbes has confirmed. With Li’s foot in the door, the telecom mogul will likely look to marry Hutchinson Wampoa-owned mobile handset… Read More »
Updated: A tipster just pinged me to let us know that AT&T is having some real problems with its wireless network on the east coast of the United States. I have emailed the company. A company spokesman just emailed and let us know that… Read More »
Wow, time does really fly. It’s the first birthday of Gogo Inflight Internet, a service that is bringing broadband access to air travelers across the country. Gogo is offered by AirCell, an Itasca, Ill-based company. Anecdotally, many people I know enjoy this… Read More »
RealNetworks Launches new player; enables sharing and portability of downloaded web videos. (we’d written about the beta — Real says it’s been used to download more than 22 million videos in the last two months). (RealNetworks blog) 360,000 Streams for Mexico vs. U.S. World Cup… Read More »
People with MacBook Pros who opted for the speedier 7200RPM HD customization option can hopefully rest easy today, since Apple yesterday released a software fix to resolve reported problems related to odd noises being made by the drives. It was accompanied by… Read More »
By relying on Twitter, new screencast tool Screenr has created a really simple option for recording and distributing short videos. Recording a screencast is as easy as logging in to your Twitter account and pressing the record button. From there, you can easily post the… Read More »
Just three days after an analyst questioned Motorola’s ability to win any business selling Long Term Evolution equipment (something I had been asking the company about as well), the vendor said it won a contract to provide LTE equipment to Japan’s KDDI. This… Read More »
The cash for clunkers program, after one near-suspension, two 11th hour votes, and a tripling of its funding, has almost survived the entire summer — but there’s not much left in the coffers. Launched last month, the program provides rebates of up to… Read More »
With some 58,000 iPhone applications in the iTunes Store, developers face an uphill battle when it comes to building a user base for their applications. But thanks to a simple marketing campaign on Twitter, tap tap tap, a startup with less than 20… Read More »
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