Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
With the Galaxy Tab and Wave phone coming, Samsung executives predict a healthy profit from the company's third-quarter mobile sales. - At
the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin,
J.K. Shin, head of Samsung's mobile communications division, told journalists
he expects the company's mobile business to reach a quot;double-digit quot;
profit margin during the third quarter of 2010.
Samsung
company executives also expect to...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
News Analysis: CEO David Scott and venture capital firms Menlo Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners and Mayfield Fund will come away with many dollars when the deal is done. - In the aftermath of the out-of-control bidding war that recently
concluded with Hewlett-Packard outspending Dell at $2.35 billion for
storage maker 3PAR, the winners undoubtedly are enjoying one of the
sweetest Labor Day weekends of their lives.
Those victors include CEO David Scott and ve...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
News Analysis: Major wireless carriers treat Hurricane Earl as a serious threat to their infrastructures, even though significant damage to the U.S. mainland is unlikely. - Wireless carriers are marshalling their forces at a series of mostly
undisclosed locations in the mid-Atlantic as Hurricane Earl works its
way up the East Coast. Theyre on standby with trucks, mobile cell
towers, generators, fuel and portable switching equipment staged to go
anywhere the storm m...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
A Nigerian man gets sentenced to 151 months in prison for a scam that stole $1.3 million from victims. - Okpako Diamreyan, a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced Sept. 1 to nearly 13
years in prison for masterminding an quot;advanced fee quot; scam that
cost his victims $1.3 million.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Diamreyan was also ordered
to pay more than $1 million in restitution to ...
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Posted in SANS on September 3rd, 2010 by ISC Handler
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is out, bringing a host of new features, including binary replication. - The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 has arrived with built-in binary
replication technology.
Expected to be ready for final release sometime in September, the RC
represents a significant overhaul
for the database, said PostgreSQL core team member Josh Berkus. New
features include pe...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said Sept. 2 use of Twitter from mobile applications has grown 62 percent since April, with Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry proving popular. Twitter for Android is apparently not a big hit. - Twitter has more than 145 million registered users, with mobile users jumping 62 percent since April after the company began offering its own mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams published a rare state-of-the-company stats blog post Sept. 2, highlighting...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
Nvidia's GeForce 400M GPU series allows users to take advantage of the latest 3D entertainment technology, and boasts the company's Optimus technology. - Chip maker Nvidia is calling its GeForce 400M Series of graphics processing
units the building blocks for the next generation of Nvidia Optimus and 3D
Vision notebooks which will come from vendors including Acer, Asus, Dell,
Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba.
The new series of GeForce 400M GPUs, whic...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
IDC analysts say consumer purchases of PCs will slow in the second half of the year, but strong commercial sales will offset some of the weakness. - IDC analysts are predicting what others
have also: Consumer sales of PCs will slow in the second half of 2010 after a
strong first two quarters.
However, IDC pointed out in
a report Sept. 2 that the softening in the PC market in the second half was not
unexpected, and that worldwide a large num...
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Posted in E-Week on September 3rd, 2010 by E-Week
A new Vlingo feature lets users check in to Foursquare by speaking into a smartphone running Android 2.0 or later. - Vlingo
is finding new ways to differentiate its software for smartphones based on
Google's voice search application.
The company Sept. 2 released a new feature for its Vlingo for Android application
that lets users check in to Foursquare simply by speaking into their smartphone
running Androi...
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