Archives: 2008 October

Live Search cuts to the chase with answers to various questions, not just links to other sites with the answers. Microsoft is expanding this 'instant answer' feature.

A high-profile chip designer is leaving IBM for Apple, causing IBM to file a non-compete lawsuit and creating much speculation over Apple's possible renewed interest in the server market. Why does IBM cares so much and what does this hiring could mean for Apple, a company best known for consumer products?

IBM is not letting go without a fight. The computer maker has filed a lawsuit against one of its former top-level executives who left the company to work at Apple.

Mark Papermaster, a server expert and vice president of IBM’s blade development unit, is slated to start at Apple in just a few weeks but […]

In a wake of Gmail outages and buggy Apps that drew the ire of its loyal user base, Google on Thursday announced a service level agreement (SLA) for the Premier Edition of Google Apps.

Google’s premium online productivity and collaboration suite now comes with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Sites and Google […]

Wednesday’s announcement that Tivo will begin offering streaming video from DVD-rental company Netflix is one more indication that technology companies increasingly see an on-demand future.

Under the terms of the agreement, the owners of recent Tivo machines (TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL) who also have an unlimited Netflix subscription will be able to […]

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference set the scene for a slew of major announcements and releases from the software giant, but one piece of news–although significant–did not get the attention it deserved.

Microsofoft’s announced its Live Framework platform which is a uniform way for programming Live Services from a host of platforms, programming languages, devices and applications, […]

Sony and three major PC makers are recalling 100,000 laptop batteries in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Lithium-Ion batteries used in about 35,000 Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell notebook computers — as well as an additional 65,000 units sold worldwide — are defective. Specifically, these Lithium-Ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn […]

A new study reports that the strongest growth in purchases of Apple’s iPhones comes from those earning less than the median household income.

According to the digital-media research firm comScore, iPhone adoption since June soared 48 percent among those earning $25,000 to $50,000 annually, and by 46 percent among those earning between $25,000 to $75,000. Under […]

Not all iPhone owners are among the most well-to-do Americans, according to a new report. While 43 percent of iPhone owners earn more than $100,000 a year, the strongest growth in users is now coming from those who earn less than country’s the median household income. iPhone adoption since June 2008 rose 48 percent among […]

About 30 years ago, we Earthlings sent a probe to check out Mercury, the tiny planet closest to the sun, and concluded that it was just a big hot rock. But after poking around on the moon and Mars for a few decades, we decided to take another look at Mercury. Messenger, the probe that […]