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Ray Ozzie hangs up his Chief Software Architect hat Just days after he started blogging again, Ray Ozzie has announced plans to retire from Microsoft. Ozzie is stepping down as Chief Software Architect, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced in an e-mail to employees on October 18. Read more |
Microsoft reports 'unprecedented wave' of Java malware exploits According to data from Microsoft's malware protection center, there has been an "unprecedented wave" of exploits against vulnerabilities in Oracle Sun's Java software in 2010. Read more |
Apple: More revenue in one quarter than Google will do in a year To put Apple's $20 billion in quarterly revenue into perspective, consider that Wall Street is expecting $19 billion in revenue from Microsoft in the seasonally strong December quarter while Google is expecting revenue of $21.6 billion for all of 2010. Now Apple is projecting fiscal first quarter sales of $23 billion.... Read more |
Apple's record quarter: Who's buying in this economy? Apple reported another amazing quarter, thanks to record sales of premium luxury products? In this economy, the question is: Who is buying and how can they afford these products? Read more |
RIM unveils BlackBerry Style 9670; is this full QWERTY flip 'fresh' and 'approachable'? RIM's new BlackBerry Style 9670 is too much BlackBerry, not enough Style. And it's another handset that fails to offer something new to the consumer. Read more |
IBM ups 2010 outlook; New mainframes spur hardware sales IBM upped its 2010 earnings outlook after delivering a strong third quarter. The company showed strength in businesses ranging from mainframes to middleware to analytics. Read more |
VMware ups fourth quarter outlook amid strong results VMware delivered strong third quarter earnings and revenue as demand for virtualization continued unabated. The company also raised its outlook for the fourth quarter. Read more |
Intel cuts prices on select desktop, mobile processors It's that time again: Intel drops the price of some of its slightly older CPUs as they get replaced by newer ones. The results should trickle down to consumers in cheaper systems and upgrades -- as long as you don't mind the older parts. Sorry, power users: None of the... Read more |
Did DRM kill the "Desktop Linux" dream? So, what killed the dream? It's not that the OS is too geeky, or too obscure, it's DRM, or specifically, the lack of support for DRM. Read more |
Your network is so screwed Let's have a moment of silence for all those network admins and architects. You have a decade of hell ahead courtesy of telepresence, a lack of staff and models that are simply in flux. Read more |
MacBook Air might drop in two sizes with 50% larger battery Today's rumor installment seems to be focused on the MacBook Air, which will reportedly be available not in one but two sizes. Read more |
iPad gets an audio boost from PadDock 10 speaker system If you're serious about watching movies on your iPad, then you might want to consider getting a speaker accessory for it, such as the PadDock 10. Read more |
Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter makes pizza cutting geeky Boldy go where no pizza cutter has gone before Read more |
Nook firmware update set to roll out next month Good news, Nook owners. Barnes & Noble has announced that a firmware update for the e-book reader will be made available in November. Read more |
Nintendo Wii follows PS3's lead, drops Netflix disc Netflix discs for gaming consoles are certainly on their way out the door now that the Nintendo Wii has dropped the disc, one week following the same announcement for Sony's PlayStation 3. Read more |
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