31 Jul 2010
Recent Enterprise Strategy Group research points to two evolving trends:
With these trends in mind, it is safe to assume that the market advantage goes to security vendors with integrated product portfolios that cover security, compliance, and IT operations. Firms like EMC’s RSA Security, McAfee, and Symantec are betting on this happening soon, but these [...]
30 Jul 2010
Samsung chart comparing SSDs to HDDs. Samsung also makes hard disk drives.
Dell’s Ultra drive has approximately 20 percent better read/write performance over more conventional SSDs, according to Avi Cohen, managing partner at Avian Securities. And Dell gets its SSDs from sources other than just Samsung, including STEC and Micron Technology, Cohen believes.
Dell Latitude E4200
Intel [...]
30 Jul 2010
“We will outsell the iPhone,” he told the newspaper.”We will outsell the BlackBerry.”
Bach also touched on entertainment issues, including Microsoft’s backing of the now-largely extinct HD DVD format, pointing out that many consumers say they can’t see a substantial picture quality improvement with next-generation discs.
And can we expect to see the company embrace Blu-ray [...]
30 Jul 2010
An Infineon spokesman declined to comment on anything iPhone related, but said he would check into whether the particular chipset used in the iPhone 3G had been used in other phones. Apple has refused to acknowledge any issues with the iPhone 3G.
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Richard Windsor of Nomura published a research note (spotted at GigaOm) [...]
30 Jul 2010
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The shop currently has three shirts that have gotten over the funding hump. Meanwhile, the upcoming pool is filled with a handful of really good-looking designs that can be sorted by date or what needs the most funding. Because of the slim selection I’ll still likely stick to places like Neighborhoodies which pumps out 200 [...]
30 Jul 2010
In the letter (PDF), the Democratic politico says he wants Comcast and other broadband providers to “volunteer” to take actions “surgically directed” only at child pornography and “not at any protected content.” (He’s targeting Usenet, the venerable pre-Web home of thousands of discussion groups that go by names like sci.math, rec.motorcycles, and comp.os.linux.admin.)
CNET News intern [...]
30 Jul 2010
“There is so much personal information on them: a mother’s maiden name, what they died from,” said Helen Purcell, recorder for Maricopa County, which covers the state capital, Phoenix.
Digital copies of death certificates have been removed from the Web site of Maricopa County in Arizona because they could be used for identity fraud, [...]
30 Jul 2010
But for all those followers, there just may be a few who don’t feel sufficiently networked with the candidate. For those who want to be in-the-know about all things Obama–like his VP choice–a millisecond before millions of others, the candidate reminds us to sign up for his text message alerts.
By Twitterholic’s last count, Obama [...]
30 Jul 2010
This isn’t a new idea by any means, but TripSay does have some good things going for it. For one there’s simple linking to media publishing services you’re already using like Flickr, YouTube and Blogger. I’ve seen some travel sites come through and attempt to steal away that conversation from popular blogging tools with their [...]
29 Jul 2010
Yes, I’ll be one of the first in line. Yes, but I’m going to avoid the launch rush. No, I’m not interested.
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Most of the other 25 percent plan to get the lower-end 8GB model, though a few people told me they still hadn’t made up [...]