On Monday, Blue Coat Systems bought competitor Packeteer to bolster its position in the WAN acceleration market. This move was probably motivated by two objectives.
First, while Blue Coat grew up in Web caching, Packeteer’s strength has always been deep packet and protocol expertise. The two technologies complement each …
Strength in its wireless operations helped propel AT&T to healthy earnings growth for the first quarter.
For the period that ended March 31, the telecommunications giant reported net income of $3.5 billion, or 57 cents per share, on revenue of $30.7 billion. Net income was up …
Updated 8:45 a.m. PDT to include comments from Microsoft.
Microsoft just threw cold water on hopes that a better-than-average Yahoo earnings report Tuesday would likely yield a higher buyout bid for the Internet pioneer.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, speaking in Morocco for the launch of the software …
Intel wants to make the whole Web editable, just like a single Wikipedia page.
The chip giant on Tuesday will make a beta available of Intel Mash Maker, a free browser extension that allows users to modify Web pages and combine information from different sources. Its first beta works with Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7, though at this point the features are far more mature in Firefox, Intel said.
The product, which originated in Intel’s research labs, is similar to existing mash-up tools like Yahoo Pipes and Microsoft Popfly in that it has a graphical design tool.
Intel Mash Maker suggests customizations and widgets.
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What’s different is that the actual mashing up of information on Intel Mash Maker happens on the client, rather than the server. So instead of making a different Web application to, say, plot real estate listings on Google Maps, Intel Mash Maker lets people add a widget that adds visualization to the real estate listing site.
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Computer users are increasingly at risk of being lured to Web sites that surreptitiously download malicious software onto their machines, but stolen or lost laptops still represent most of the security breaches reported, according to a new Microsoft report.
Exploits, malicious software, and hacking accounted for 13 percent of all …
At its iPhone SDK event last month, Apple touted an adaption of AOL’s instant-messaging client for the iPhone. Now comes news of Apple’s own patent application for a chat feature.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the application, titled “Portable Electronic Device for Instant Messaging,” on …
(Credit: Sandia)It took 20 years, but here it is–again: the new and improved flash-bang grenade.
Sandia National Laboratories, which created the original Mk 141 flash-bang two decades ago, is having a second go at marketing a “fuel air” version of an old SWAT standby that it says is far
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Comes With Music customers will have total access to the music of Alicia Keys as well as every other Sony BMG artist free for a full year.
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The concept behind Nokia’s new music service “Comes with Music” is starting to catch on with the major music …
Linux has been proclaiming the year of the desktop for years, to no avail. Meanwhile, quietly, insidiously, it has been taking a rising share of the mobile and embedded market. Indeed, ABI Research pegs Linux’s share of the mobile market at 20 percent by 2013. Such growth, in part driven by Google’s Android stamp of approval and Nokia’s Maemo approval, puts a serious crimp on Symbian’s and Microsoft’s ambitions in mobile.
As ABI research notes,
Linux solutions will be at the center of the drive to bring more content-rich environments to users who currently utilize mid-tier devices. More importantly, it looks increasingly likely that mobile Linux solutions will be an important building block in enabling an application domain that embraces Web-based applications and blended Web/native applications.
Mobile Linux’s rise is partly a function of its superior cost proposition, but as ABI implies, it’s also partly due to its flexibility and the iPhone’s introduction of web-based applications. As on the desktop, the more we move applications to the web, the less necessary it is that we have Windows waiting on the client to receive them.
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Three: It’s the magic number.
Googlers have long had a geeky obsession with numbers. The name Google, after all, is a play on the mathematical term “googol”; one of the company’s office buildings is named “Pi”; and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set the search giant’s …