By: Nicholas Kolakowski
Microsoft experienced a cloud-centric week with Windows Azure, which is now generally available in 21 countries and no longer available for free. Microsoft hopes that the cloud-based platform and its application-building tools for developers will allow it to gain market share in the cloud computing arena, where it faces strong competition from the [...]
Scott Bradner, Network World
As the year winds down I’ve been trying to decide how to summarize it Internet-wise. But it seems to me that the continuing saga of the news business symbolizes yet another year of close-to-terminal, Internet-induced confusion for traditional businesses — or, maybe, panic.
by Jacqueline Emigh, PC World
Flash forward to about a year from now, if you will. Envision yourself walking into a consumer electronics store toward the end of 2010. What kinds of HDTV products and features is your retail salesperson likely to tout? LCD flat panel TVs will gain even more predominance by then, while [...]
SAN FRANCISCOÂ - Apple Inc shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet computer. Although Apple has never acknowledged that a device exists, anticipation is peaking as the company enters the new year.
By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld — The disclosure that Iraqi insurgents were able to intercept live video feeds from U.S. drones has focused the spotlight on a familiar IT security issue: data encryption.
Insurgents Intercept Video Feeds from U.S. Drones Using $26 Software, Report says
In a story that’s receiving widespread attention, the Wall Street [...]
Unless you’ve been in a cave or working or something like that, you know that famed golfer Tiger Woods was in a car accident recently. News outlets, respectable and otherwise, have been hard at work filling us in on every available detail, genuine and otherwise, about the incident.
By MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Amazon.com Inc. shares soared, confirming its status as the king of e-commerce, as the holiday shopping season began this weekend and Amazon topped the charts as the most visited Web site on Black Friday.
by Jackie Dove
Apogee has introduced GiO, an audio interface and foot controller for the Mac, designed to work with Apple’s new Logic Studio and GarageBand ’09.
By Ina Fried
PASADENA, Calif.–PayPal is just over a third of eBay’s revenue at the moment, but the online payment service will ultimately be bigger than the company’s flagship e-commerce site, its chief executive said Thursday. “PayPal is a business that will be bigger than eBay,” CEO John Donahoe said in a talk at the Fortune [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Atlantis is back home in Florida, more than a week later than originally planned. The shuttle finished its cross-country trip from California on Tuesday, anchored to the top of a specially modified Boeing 747.