In the last two years, more and more services for ocation-sharing have been showing up, i.e., sharing one’s own palce with others. Not exactly surprising, but the question “Where are you?” is apparently the most commonly asked in mobile calls. Services such as Gowalla, Four Square,[...]
January 21st, 2011 - 12:00 am § in Virtualization
Apple’s record quarter
With the newest, unusually good quarterly results, the interim Apple CEO Tim Cook caught a good start. “We had a phenomenal holiday season with record sales for Mac, iPhone and iPad” said Steve Jobs. It was not only the classic Christmas sales with consumers of which Apple has benefited.[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 4:52 pm § in Computer Hardware
CeBIT 2011: New Acer Tablets
At CeBIT, Acer was promoting Tablet PCs, including a device with the Android operating system, a 10.1-inch touch screen with HD resolution, HDMI port, optional WLAN and UMTS. The housing is made of aluminum and is 13.3 millimeters high. A gyro sensor ensures that the Tablet works nicely as a mobile [...]
December 21st, 2010 - 8:13 pm § in Server Tech
CloudBerry Backup for Windows Aurora
After publication of the first public beta of cloudberry backup for the second generation of Windows Home Server, code name “Vail,” Cloudberry Labs has recently released the first beta of an Amazon S3 backup solution for the new Windows Small Business Server Essentials (code-named Aurora[...]
December 17th, 2010 - 7:54 pm § in Software
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is available
The final version of the Security Essetionals 2.0, Microsoft’s free anti-virus software for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 is now available. In addition to protection against Internet threats for users of Internet Explorer, the new version brings protection against attacks from the network, b[...]
December 15th, 2010 - 8:31 am § in Computer Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Tablets on Track for CES
The New York Times claims that, according to persons familiar with Microsoft plans, that Steve Ballmer will announce a number tablet PC partners at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. It sounds like as if Redmond is planning to pull some new tablet plans out of the dwaer, according to informan[...]