News Analysis: The long-awaited Verizon announcement will expand Apple’s market share and bring relief to beleaguered iPhone users who want access to a 4G wireless network. – With Apple’s iPhone market share threatened by Android’s
growing popularity and by the steadily deteriorating service of AT amp;T’s
overburdened 3G system, Verizon Wireless will finally get a chance to show what
the iPhone can do on its network.
The iPhone that the carrier is expected to intro…
Gordano offers the full Gordano Messaging Suite as a hosted version to give customers secure e-mail, calendar, tasks, contacts, instant messaging and collaboration as part of GMS Cloud. – Gordano is jumping onto the cloud bandwagon by launching GMS Cloud, a hosted
version of its Gordano messaging platform on Nov. 16.
GMS Cloud has the Gordano Messaging Suite in the back end, according to John
Stanners, Gordano senior vice president. All the features of GMS are available
in GMS C…
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Opposition DSS leader Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica said on Wednesday that the Serb Progressive Party (SNS) has obviously accepted the ruling coalition’s policy. That policy relates to the “no alternative to EU membership” approach, he explained.
Opposition SNS and DSS leaders Tomislav Nikolić and Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica today agreed that the policy of “no alternative” to EU membership should be abandoned. “Both SNS and DSS concluded that the policy according to which the European Union has no alternative, which the Democratic Party had obviously started pursuing again a couple of days ago strongly and openly, should be abandoned,” Nikolić said after a meeting held at the party headquarters.
A small delegation from Seattle knocks VMware’s view of the cloud world and talks up Azure as the better way to go. – SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft
as alternative. This is certainly not a typical notion, but in the context of
VMworld 2010, it absolutely fit.
The world’s largest application and operating system software maker is not
nearly in as familiar waters when it comes to data center middleware, although
it has…
Seattle Times reviewer Jeff Carlson calls Magic Trackpad “an excellent mouse alternative†and “a fascinating addition to the Apple hardware lineup.†He also mentions the new Apple Battery Charger, noting that it “pulls much less power (30 milliwatts) once the batteries are charged compared to other battery chargers.†About Magic Trackpad Carlson concludes: “…if you want to take advantage of Multi-Touch gestures on a desktop computer, it’s a stylish and solid implementation.â€
Linux is a robust, solid, virus-free operating system. It can do just about anything a Windows computer can do, and usually more. Here’s a few reasons to consider a switch.
Thinking of making the jump to Linux, but still on the fence? Here’s a few good reasons to make the switch to Linux.
News Analysis: The Mac Mini has been updated with a new design and some impressive new features. Thanks to those updates, Apple’s budget Mac just became a worthwhile alternative to the company’s iPad. – Earlier this week, Apple
released a new Mac Mini. The device comes in two versions, including a $700
model that includes better graphics functionality and a new design. While the
device is undoubtedly well-built, it comes without a keyboard, monitor or
mouse.
In order to use a Mac Mini, consum…
Many people assume that alternative energy is simply too expensive, and not competitive with oil and other conventional means of energy.While some alternative writers allege that the big oil companies have artificially increased alternative energy pric…
As Robert Redford writes this week:Thursday, May 20, 2010, marks one month since BP’s oil rig exploded in the Gulf Coast ….This is the clearest picture we could have of our failed national energy policy — which extends over many decades and a…
Yahoo at CTIA Wireless debuts two search applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The Sketch-a-Search app lets users search for information without typing in keywords. Instead, users can search by drawing a boundary on the iPhone’s map to find local restaurants within that area. The Yahoo Search for iPhone app is a standard search app for the popular smartphone. Yahoo could use a bit of traction with these applications, as the company’s search engine market share has been sliding.
– Yahoo, determined not to be an also-ran in the search engine market, has released
two new search applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, one of which lets
users search for information without typing in keywords.
Released at the CTIA Wireless trade show March 23, the Sketch-a-Search
appli…
DSS leader Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica said that the “EU has not alternative†policy should be replaced with normal policies that will keep the country together. “Life and the example of the conference in Slovenia confirms that it would have be good for Serbia to implement these thought-out state-preserving policies over the last two years instead of empty and superficial policies such as the current government’s ‘EU has no alternative’,†the former prime minister stated.
Recent announcements from Twitter and Digg.com underscore the growing awareness of NoSQL databases as an alternative to relational database management systems. But just what the future holds for NoSQL is an open question.
– The buzz around the NoSQL movement in the past year has grown
considerably, to the point where advocates organized a one-day conference in
Boston
just last week
to discuss its future.
Recent announcements
from Twitter and Digg.com supporting a NoSQL approach added fuel to this
buzz, and wh…
Begun in February with the space shuttle Endeavour’s arrival, NASA scientists are studying the effects of microgravity on jatropha cells in hopes of accelerating the commercial use of biofuels. This is the first study to assess the effects of microgravity on cells of a biofuel plant.
– NASA scientists have launched a new experiment on the ISS
(International Space Station) in hopes of producing alternative energy
crops on Earth. Cell cultures of the jatropha curcas plant were sent to the space station in February in special flasks containing nutrients and vitamins.
The
cells …
Against the backdrop of real-time collaboration platforms such as Google Wave and IBM’s Project Vulcan, SAP plans to launch 12Sprints, a platform that includes instant messaging and document sharing, into public beta Feb. 2. The enterprise applications provider intends 12Sprints as a Web-based meeting room where corporate employees can virtually congregate for strategy sessions on projects. 12Sprints streamlines workflow by letting anywhere from 5 to 30 users analyze data from enterprise applications, such as a pipeline analysis in a business intelligence tool or a purchase order approval in an ERP system, and discuss the app using chat tools.
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Google may have been the first to launch a widely
publicized real-time collaboration platform in Google Wave, but rivals with a more laser-like focus on the enterprise are
coming to the fore.
SAP plans to launch 12Sprints,
a platform that includes instant messaging and document sha…
The Kosovo election commission will set up “alternative polling stations for areas where Serbs make up a majority of the population”. The decision came after local elementary schools in these towns decided not to allow polling stations to be set up at their premises, according to Albanian language media in PriÅ¡tina.
VoxOx from TelCentris lets users make calls from PC to PC, as well as from PCs to landlines and mobile phones. The Web application, geared to compete with Skype and Google Voice, also enables video, instant messaging and two-way text messaging, file sharing and social networking into one platform. Unlike Skype or Google Voice, VoxOx lets users send instant messages to other social networks, including Skype, Facebook and MySpace. Users may also reply to Twitter tweets and surface friends with a hover effect, which lets them mouse over any contact to see their Facebook status updates and learn how to contact them.
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Skype and Google Voice users who want more bells and
whistles for their phone communications services have a another option from TelCentris.
The startup makes VoxOx
that lets users make calls from PC to PC, as well as from PCs to
landlines and mobile phones, and much more. Windows…
Serbs should vote at the upcoming local elections in Kosovo as there is no alternative, says Independent Liberal Party leader Slobodan Petrović. In an interview with Voice of America, he said that the conditions were not up to scratch, but that a boycott would not improve matters.
