Google Bets on Mobile Advertising with AdMob Purchase
Google is somewhat new to the mobile operating system and mobile device markets, but one market it understands, arguably better than any other entity, is online advertising. So, there is reason to raise an eyebrow when Google throws down $750 million to purchase a company like AdMob that is focused on mobile advertising.
Apple posts Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0
If you're using an Apple Wireless Keyboard with OS X 10.5.8 or later, you'll want to install the Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 from Apple. Released on Monday, the firmware update allows you, as Apple puts it in the release notes, to "take advantage of your 2009 aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard's special features." The release notes are less detailed about what those features might be, but a pretty good guess might be the keyboard's function keys, which offer one-touch access to OS X capabilities including Exposé and Dashboard.
Reliance Life Sciences Launches Info Database
Reliance Life Sciences (RLS) develops business opportunities in the domains of medical, plant and industrial biotechnology. But with new research happening every day it was getting hard for biologists to keep track of genome sequences like evolutionary history of organisms, their biological function, and their chemical structure, etcetera.
The Smithsonian's quest for IT's Ruby Slippers
The National Museum of American History continues its effort to determine what IT devices have played or will play an important role in the flow of history even as the facility still lacks a separate large IT exhibit.
Charles Cecil working on a Minesweeper adventure for charity
Broken Sword creator Charles Cecil has revealed his next project, a full-blown point-and-click adventure game based on the freeware game Minesweeper.
Firefox at 5: What We Love and Hate About You
Mozilla's Firefox Web browser turned five years old today, and as I took it for a celebratory spin (I'm a recent Chrome convert), it was easy to notice how similar all the major browsers have become in terms of basic functionality. For instance, it's harder to choose one browser over another for the way it treats tabs and windows, as Firefox now lets you drag tabs into separate windows. Nor will privacy nuts find that they can't go incognito in their browser of choice.
Motorola Droid: Updates Already On the Way?
Well, that didn't take long: Just three days after the Droid dropped, and we already have our first leaked-document-style rumor. What is this, the iPhone or something?
Server Consolidation Results in Savings for Rayon
The Indian Rayon unit of the Aditya Birla Nuvo group is the second largest producer of viscose filament yarn (VFY) in India, in terms of its market share. With the distinction of constituting 50 percent of VFY exports from India, the company has consistently raised the bar.
Microsoft Exchange set; SharePoint, OCS to follow
Microsoft Monday shipped the final release of Exchange 2010, ushering in not so much the latest version of its messaging server but the first updated piece of its unified communications and collaboration platform.
Veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal
With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.
Handhelds Helped Gati Deliver Real Time Reports
When Gati launched in 1989, it was a small cargo management company. But over the years it's evolved into a consumer 'superbrand.' But with this growth came challenges to the brand. It sought to be a trusted: if Gati said it would be delivered, it would be. The evidence? A scrap of paper called a POD (proof of delivery).
Advertising Made Easy with Media Management Portal
FMCG major Marico boasts of a wide array of products in the hair care, skin care and wellness space. To fight for mind space in such a highly competitive and fragmented market, the company, like all other companies in the sector, resorts to advertising.
Tethering to iPhone still coming, AT&T says; no date set
AT&T today reiterated its plans to offer tethering on the iPhone, but again gave no date when that might happen -- more than a year after the carrier first said tethering would be coming "soon."
Cisco crafting telepresence Rosetta Stone
At its big collaboration event this week, Cisco is wheeling out what it describes as the Rosetta Stone of high-def videoconferencing to address one of the biggest problems facing the technology – interoperability.
EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition
The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulatory filing Monday.