By Mike Elgan
December 24, 2009 — Computerworld —
Some old-and-busted technologies die gracefully of natural causes. Pagers, PDAs, floppy disks — they’re gone, and good riddance.But other obsolete tech lingers on, even though better alternatives abound that are easier, cheaper, higher quality and much more efficient.
Ellen Messmer, Network World
The rise of the Conficker worm and Heartland Payment Systems’ enormous data breach were two defining security events in 2009. What’s in store for 2010?
“It’s going to get worse,” says Patrik Runald, senior manager of security and research at Websense, who argues there has not yet been a year when things got [...]
By: Jeffrey Burt
As part of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the systems, HP is upgrade its Itanium-based Integrity NonStop servers to enable users to increase capacity, improve performance and integrate with such open-source software as Spring and Apache Axis2. The NonStop systems were first developed by Tandem, which was bought by Compaq. HP [...]
By Martin Zimmerman
LOS ANGELES — The 2010 Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car of the Year at the L.A. Auto Show on Thursday, giving the Germans and clean diesel technology back-to-back wins.
By Brooke Donald
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.
By Erica Ogg
MTV doesn’t show much more than reality TV programming these days, so video-sharing site Vevo is looking to fill that void. Already armed with the video libraries of record labels Universal and Sony, word comes today that EMI is on the verge of signing with Vevo as well.
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON - Northrop Grumman Corp unveiled Tuesday an industry-academic research group to tackle growing cyber threats to U.S. computer networks and to networked infrastructure. Joining the Pentagon’s No. 3 supplier by sales are cyber research arms of Carnegie Mellon, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Purdue University.
By Stephen Shankland
Word from the LA Times is that Google plans to phase out its Gears plug-in in favor of HTML5 when it comes to augmenting browser abilities. The precise details of its enthusiasm for the plug-in aren’t clear yet, but the general trajectory is no surprise.
By Nicholas Bonsack
Mon, November 30, 2009 — Macworld — It seems that Apple has big plans for the next iPhone Maps app, or so we might glean from a job posted for an iPhone Software Engineer on Apple’s website.
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
South Korea’s LG Electronics will sign a five-year deal this week to buy silicon wafers for solar panels from Norway’s REC Wafer, it said Sunday.The contract, which will be signed on Thursday in Seoul, is worth at least US$340 million and supply will begin in limited quantities next year. Supply [...]