Dec 17, 2009
This article pertains to the drop in MySpace web traffic. According to Eliot Van Buskirk of wire.com MySpace’s parent company stands to lose approximately 100 million because it can meet its web traffic (advertizing) quota with Google. This is bad new foe News Corp because it covered its 580 dollar acquisition of MySpace; on the [...]
Dec 17, 2009
This article pertains to the Goggle’s open source Android operating system (for mobile phones) that was released last year. Priya Ganapati of Wired.com says that while the system had a slow start it has become increasingly popular but has run into a few problems. Mainly the problem is that there are three version of the [...]
Dec 17, 2009
This article is a review of the features offer by in Genesys Meeting Center software. It is inexpensive web conferencing software that cost approximately 33 cents per minute per user. This provides a nice alternative to purchasing an allotted time of service. Once you create an account you are give a “credit Card” of sort [...]
Dec 16, 2009
Why are there no Mac Viruses In this article Philip Elmer-Dewitt discusses the reason for the lack of Mac OS X viruses. He argues that there aren’t any viruses capable of infecting the Mac OS X system. He defined a virus as a program that infects a computer and has the ability to spread to [...]
Dec 16, 2009
“Company Offers College textbooks for free” This particular article informs the public of the website flatworld.com, a website where like the title suggests allows students to obtain their college text books for free. There are a few more details than that of course the website also offers printed versions of the texts book for up [...]
Dec 16, 2009
“Cybercrime: a secret underground economy” This article denounces the stereotype of geeks creating and sending out viruses and maintains that it is a growing industry. Cyber criminals steal one’s personal information such as credit card numbers or bank account numbers by way of malware, spyware viruses, Trojan horses etc. And then sell that information online [...]
Dec 16, 2009
On Tuesday September 1, 2009 Gmail, the email service provided the Google search engine, experience a widespread outage. Ben Treynor, a Google vise president said, “it was a big deal and that Google is working identifying and correcting the errors that lead to the outage.” The immediate cause for the outage was that a few [...]
Dec 16, 2009
Review of the article “Disney debuts do-it-yourself thrill ride” and a correlation to the Chapter 8 Much like the Sims City amusement park video game where one can run and design an amusement park, Disney has developed a new ride in where customers are able to customize a ride to their specifications. The new ride [...]
Dec 16, 2009
This article highlight the Motorola Droid, a new phone offered exclusively By Verizon wireless. It was designed for people seeking an alternative to the iPhone and shows that while the iPhone has standard it is not immune to threat or rather “not untouchable” as stated by Straton (www.cnn.com). The Droid offers many similar features and [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The articles is about IBM has improved the Informix Dynamic Server. According to Kevin Brown, IBM’s Lead Architect for Informix Database, “the new tools allow [customers] to transform their data into Star Schema for efficient warehouse workloads, With this offering, we are providing the necessary tools to make their jobs that much easier” (www.eweek.com). Prior [...]
Dec 16, 2009
This article described discussed and compared new technology that was offer in a few vehicles (the VW Touran, the Toyota Prius Spirit, and the Lexus LS460 to be specific). This technology is called the intelligent parking assistant, and it does what it implies (Parks your vehicle). This feature was put to the blind fold test [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Ina Fried basically says that complains made by customers regarding Windows Vista lead Microsoft to a new product designing approach. Where they sought the input of PC manufactures like HP, Dell, and Acer etc. Morbello, an Acer Vice president, said, “Until Vista, Microsoft was fully thinking on there own and implanting their own ideas and [...]
