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FathomDB launches cloud database

FathomDB unveiled on Friday its database as a service platform for the cloud.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Amazon modifies Kindle text-to-speech feature

Amazon.com will let copyright holders opt out of having their books read aloud on the company’s Kindle 2 book reader, in an apparent concession to concerns raised about the device’s text-to-speech feature.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Attorneys aim to reinstate ‘class’ in Vista Capable suit

Due to an editing error, a sentence in the story “Attorneys aim to reinstate ‘class’ in Vista Capable suit,” posted to the wire on Friday, was truncated. The full sentence should read: “Plaintiffs in the suit, filed in April 2007 in a U.S. District Court in Seattle, claim that Microsoft’s sticker program was an example [...]

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

WiMax cuts through highway fog

There are deadly hazards in the fog that blankets California’s rural Central Valley every winter, but a WiMax network may now help warn motorists of what looms ahead of them and prevent accidents.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Obama’s broadband stimulus: Will wireless fit the bill?

When President Obama said during his address to Congress this week that “laying broadband” was going to one of the main priorities of his recently-passed stimulus package, the first question that comes to mind is, “What sort of broadband?”

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Open source PBXs make corporate gains; how much is a debate

The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Economic downturn not taking the fight out of Microsoft

Microsoft this week outlined its intent to stand and fight against a difficult economy with a plan to go after competitors and seize market share in areas like netbooks, mobile devices/services, browsers, databases and even search/advertising.

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WLAN product blitz shows 802.11n more affordable, useable

A slew of new WLAN hardware and software suggests that 802.11n high-throughput WLANs are fast becoming more affordable and manageable across all industry segments.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

DEMO 09 presenters unveiled

DEMO 09 organizers have announced the latest crop of hand-picked emerging technologies, including a portable device that works as a netbook and touch-screen tablet, a voice-to-text SMS application for the iPhone and a network of small, battery powered wireless cameras that stream video directly to the Internet.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Alaska becomes latest airline with Wi-Fi

Alaska Airlines is the latest carrier to launch in-flight Wi-Fi, offering passengers on a specially equipped Boeing 737 a service that uses satellites instead of cellular towers to connect the plane to the Internet.

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Microsoft converging programming languages

Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week.

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Obama proposes spectrum license fee

Buried in U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget blueprint for 2009 is a new-but-undefined spectrum license user fee that would increase from US$50 million in 2009 to $550 million four years later.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

Oracle to release major Enterprise Manager upgrade

Oracle is set to unveil Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5 on Tuesday, framing the upgrade as a major step forward for the company’s wide-ranging application management platform.

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RIM: Battery not source of BlackBerry Bold overheating

Research In Motion on Friday confirmed that NTT DoCoMo has halted sales of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone in Japan due to overheating, but said that the battery wasn’t the source of the problem.

February 28, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

It’s the Land of the Lost this week here at quiz central. Among other things, a major U.S. corporation lost track of its severance payments, Congress suffered a Twitter-induced loss of attention during this week’s presidential address, and several Yahoo execs lost their jobs (voluntarily or otherwise). Try not to lose any brain cells; you’ll [...]

February 27, 2009 | Posted in News | Read More »