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Intel Pushes Solid State Hard Drive Transfer Speeds with 500MBps 510 Series SSD
Looking to bring to market the fastest solid state drive, Intel is coming to town with the current fastest SATA SSD, but they’re still not the shiniest vendor in the bazaar. Bought in bulk, the 250GB SSD 510 will cost a bout $584, whereas the slightly slower and smaller version (450MBps read) 120GB model will ...
Google’s Cloud Crash Woes Likely Soothed by Virtualized Offline Tape Storage
This weekend some Google e-mail users woke up to discover most of their messages, contacts, and recorded chat sessions had gone up in smoke. An event that Google’s engineers have determined was caused by the introduction of a bug into their most recent backup software. While the bug only affected a total of .02% of ...
Boxee Lands $16.5M in Recent Round of Financing
The company who brought us the Boxee Box last year has entered a new round of funding and managed to come out with a pretty penny. After taking months to move through beta and other developmental hurdles, the Box has come through with some extremely positive developments. The announcement of their gains comes from Boxee ...
Nintendo 3DS Debuts in Japan, Sells Out Almost Immediately
The spiritual and direct successor to the handheld gaming throne of the Nintendo DS, the 3DS has certainly not failed to impress the crowds with its hype. Sporting a screen that displays 3D images without the need for special glasses, the device looks to be the pinnacle of handheld gaming graphics and might even transcend ...
Juniper Networks Plans $1 Billion Debut Offering While VMware Prepares Share Buyback
It’s interesting times for the cloud-based industry right now as two of the major players begin rounds of creative financing. Juniper Networks is planning a $1 billion for a debt sale as a debut offering and VMware is buying back shares, up to $550 million, until the end of 2012. Juniper’s plans are laid out ...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Speaks to the Power of Mobile in his Internet Advertising Bureau Keynote Speech
In his keynote speech at the Internet Advertising Bureau Annual Leadership meeting, Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered a message concerning the advertising power of mobile. In his speech, he makes heavy use of statistics gained from the recent Super Bowl and how the extremely expensive advertisements affected mobile search displaying a powerful impact. In fact, ...
Google Maneuvers to Further Horn in on Microsoft Office’s Turf with Cloud Connect
Google seems to have its eye on the unfettered office with the release of a new free tool that will ease the portability of Microsoft documents to the web for collaboration. The tool, Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, will integrate into Microsoft Office products and enable them to wed their files with the Google cloud ...
Open Xerox Puts Software Research and Development into the Eager Hands of the Public
I’m not old enough to remember Xerox PARC, but its contributions to modern software and GUI design haven’t passed me lightly. Now, Xerox is looking to do homage to that explosion of innovation in the 1970s with an open research site that will allow users hands-on access to developing R&D projects. The site, according to ...
Microsoft Demos Advancements in NUI (Natural User Interfaces) and Kinect is in the Picture
Researchers at Microsoft show that they’re really thinking hard about how humans interact with computers and how the Kinect has provided a surge of innovation in this direction. Natural User Interfaces should be the next-big-thing and include a lot of things science fiction has brought into our zeitgeist like the Minority Report user interface (provided ...
Apple’s FaceTime for Mac Arrives in Mac App Store for $0.99 a Pop
It’s become official, Apple just released FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store today. Now Mac OS X users can chat with other Apple customers on their iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. With the video-chat feature entering into an already growing ecology of apps that do the same thing, some media writers are scratching ...