Major Usenet Provider Ordered to Remove All Infringing Content
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has won its landmark court case against News-Service.com, one of the leading Usenet providers. The Amsterdam court ruled that the Usenet provider, which offers its network to Binverse and Usenext among others, has to delete all infringing content from its servers. This decision is similar to the one that effectively shut down the BitTorrent site Mininova, and it could mean the end of one of the leading providers of Usenet access.
Motorola Xoom Owners to Finally Get Their LTE Love
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Only a few months late, Verizon is now offering its promised 4G LTE upgrades to Motorola Xoom users. The Xoom, the first Honeycomb (Android 3.x) tablet, shipped in March, while promising an LTE upgrade, which kept getting pushed out, and out, and out. eanwhile, Verizon has shipped other tablets that came with 4G LTE support built-in, such…
5 themes for 2012 technology planning | ZDNet
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Consolidation and process discipline are just two ways SMBs can squeeze operational costs out of their IT budget, leaving more room for innovation.
Amazon Debuts its $199 Kindle Fire Tablet To Confront Apple’s Ipad Market Dominance
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Apple’s Ipad now has a strong competitor in the form of Amazon’s color tablet computer named Kindle Fire. With the high brand value of the Kindle brand which was rigorously built over three generations of its e-book readers.
Intel’s Market Share Further Ahead of the Pack after Crossing Sandy Bridge
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Intel’s obscene share of the microprocessor market has grown even more grotesque, at least if you’re AMD or any other chip maker fighting for scraps. If you’re Intel, well, life just keeps getting better. New numbers are in, and according to data from market research firm IHS iSuppli, Intel now dominates the competition by accounting for 81.8…
T-Mobile lines up against Apple in Samsung lawsuit
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
T-Mobile USA has become the latest mobile provider opposing Apple’s bid to stop Samsung Electronics Co from selling some Galaxy products in the United States, according to a court filing.
Google Analytics Finally Goes Real Time (Plus New Premium Accounts)
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Google Analytics, the super dominant free web analytics platform, has to date offered analytics that were roughly 24 hours behind. The wait to stop waiting has come to an end and today the company announced that Google Analytics is now rolling out real-time reporting to its users. Update: Just when you thought that was a big deal, Google Analytics also rolled out a premium offering today. Details below. This is something that many people are going to be very happy about. Real-time analytics startups like Chartbeat and Woopra (whom we use here) may not be among that group of happy…
If HP’s Spun Off, Could Compaq Respawn?
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Hewlett-Packard, which bought Compaq in 2002, is considering spinning off its $40 billion personal computer business into a separate company. Most of HP’s Personal Systems Group is based here, and if a spinoff happens, it might make sense to base the new operation at the old Compaq campus.
China cracks down on makers of fake iPhones, report says
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
Chinese police in Shanghai have five people in custody for allegedly building and selling near-perfect copies of Apple’s iPhone in China.
OCZ’s New Z-Drive R4 – Ridiculously Fast PCI Express SSD Hits 2.8GB/Sec
Sep 30, 2011 Technology
The Z-Drive line is about no holds barred performance for the enterprise. The Z-Drive R4 with its “SuperScale Storage Accelerator” and now an octet of SandForce SF-2200 series controllers, has landed on our testbeds for a few cycles of the benchmark gauntlet. And oh yeah, it’s packing a full 1.6TB (yes, that’s Terabytes) of usable capacity on board.