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29th July, 2010 Microsoft execs spend day with financial analysts outlining future The most jaw-dropping number of the day Thursday: $169 billion is how much Microsoft has returned to shareholders over the last 10 years through dividends and stock buybacks. That was a closing note from Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein during read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems The move provides more choice for running Solaris, Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on x86 platforms By Chris Kanaracus Tools sponsored by BOSTON, 29 JULY 2010 - Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Repo Man Advice From Otto: Arm Thyself Just last night an acquaintance was mentioning how her car, which she had fallen a couple payments behind on, had been secretly towed from Newport Beach to Pasadena, where she can be reunited with it for a cool $2,700. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles City read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Water Scam Being Pulled in Garden Grove is Larger, Wider and Now Has a Face We told you here about a mystery man who went to a home in Garden Grove, identified himself as a city employee named Christopher for the resident and claimed he was there to perform tests because the city water supply had been contaminated. As the read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas Bombs in Court Secrecy Attempt Categories: Breaking News, Moxley, OC Media Jeanne Rice/OC Weekly Court to Nicholas: Nope The California appellate justices in Orange County this afternoon rejected the proposal by a local billionaire that he, and those with immense wealth, deserve read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Google says China services back up Google said Friday its services appeared to be back up and running normally in China, after the US web giant reported that access to its search engine and other products were being blocked. Google and the Chinese government have for months been locked in read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring Source: wired.com The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Mimecast Launches Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Easing Migration Concerns for Administrators Extract not available. read more » |
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29th July, 2010 CIA, Google fund Web analysis firm Recorded Future claims ability find 'invisible links' In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures are investing in Recorded Future, a company whose technology monitors the Web in real time and develops predictions of future events from the content, according to read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Smartphones, Tablets Seen Boosting Mobile Health (PC World) PC World - Smartphones, tablet PCs and other wireless devices are poised to play a greater role in health care as doctors and patients embrace the mobile Internet, panelists at a mobile health technology conference in Boston said Thursday. read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Google search 'blocked in China' Google says people in mainland China are being blocked from using its internet search engine. The company posted a Thursday notice about the new barrier without any other details. A Google spokesman in the US says he is still trying to gather information read more » |
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29th July, 2010 YouTube ups video limit to 15 minutes YouTube has increased the upload limit for videos to the site to 15 minutes from 10 minutes. Joshua Siegel, a YouTube product manager, said in a blog post that increasing the time limit had been the 'number one requested feature' by contributors to the read more » |
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29th July, 2010 iPorn potential in new iPhone The adult industry is moving on the new iPhone, seeking models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. So when Apple launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop read more » |
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29th July, 2010 iPhone 4 released in Oz Hundreds of iPhone lovers have braved the cold weather overnight to get their hands on the iPhone 4, and the big telcos are preparing for a buying frenzy despite the problems plaguing Apple's latest gizmo. iPhone 4 sales are also taking place overseas in read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Intel wins key ruling in class-action suit A court-appointed special master has rejected class-action status in an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, determining that the plaintiffs failed to show that PC buyers were harmed by discounts Intel offered ... read more » |
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29th July, 2010 iPhone ... or spyPhone? BEN GRUBB Alarm has sounded over hundreds of thousands of smartphone apps that authorities fear spy on users by Ben Grubb. Australian security experts, consumer advocates and privacy campaigners have sounded the alarm over the hundreds of thousands of read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Wall Street Beat: Dell case serves as cautionary tale Sometime in the second quarter of 2004, Dell Chief Financial Officer James Schneider was told by the company's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) financial director that the unit was having difficulty meeting its US$159 million operating income target. read more » |
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29th July, 2010 Google says China sites now fully accessible Google Inc. says users are now able to access its China-based services, adding that its system for monitoring its sites in the Asian country may have overstated the recent level of blockage. read more » |
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29th July, 2010 August NetGuide out now! The August issue of NetGuide is on the shelves now and it’s jam packed with great stuff. This month’s cover story is 10 x 5 minute hacks (that anyone can do). Control your computer remotely, reveal forgotten passwords or shutdown your computer via a read more » |
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29th July, 2010 MarketWatch First Take: Microsoft moving at snail's pace on tablets While Steve Ballmer may have said that no one at the software giant is “sleeping at the switch” when it comes to the emerging tablet, it still appears the company is slow on the uptake. read more » |