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IBM's Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and Linux, announced this morning that Big Blue is "moving to Firefox as its default browser" because the open-source browser is "stunningly standards compliant", "not beholden to one commercial entity" and "extensible" among other reasons.
The decision puts IBM's nearly 400,000 employees solidly in Mozilla's court, adding yet another vote of confidence for the worlds number two browser.
When Steve Jobs announced that the new iPhone 4 would have HD video capabilities, and that Apple would be releasing iMovie on in the App Store, everyone’s first impression was that the Flip was dead. What was not expected was that within the first few days of the product being available to the public, such a well put together movie short would be comprised entirely on the iPhone using the new iMovie App.
If you have not already seen this, you have to check it out for yourself. “Apple of My Eye” is a movie short shot and edited entirely on an iPhone 4. That’s right, full production on the iPhone.
Read more...Net Applications and AdMob have released their latest reports, and both suggest the protracted struggle for the future of mobile computing is far from over.
Net Applications, which derives web browsing market share from some 160 million visitors to
Read more...The biggest speculative conundrum for Mac laptop watchers currently is, “Whither the MacBook Air?” It’s been more than a year since the Air received its last (very modest) refresh, and the operative puzzler is whether it will be getting another or just be allowed to fade away from relevance through neglect.
In what can only be touted as "better late than never" news, Internet giant Yahoo! is today, at long last, launching its first ever applications designed for Android-based smartphones. There are now a trio of new apps available in the Android Market: a Yahoo! Mail app, Yahoo! Messenger app and a Yahoo! Search widget. Each of these applications have been built "from the ground up" for the Android platform, a company blog post proclaims, and they work on any Android phone running OS version 2.0 or higher.
Alongside the launch of these new Android apps, the company is also announcing the arrival of revamped Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News mobile Web apps, designed with iPhone and iPhone Touch users in mind.
Yesterday the Oregon state treasurer's office announced that it has seen power consumption in its data center drop 25% in the first month since it adopted a virtualized infrastructure.
That kind of example makes it seem like cloud computing and virtualization are viable options for leaders at the state and federal levels of government. It's a correct assumption. But the reality is all together different.
This week the Obama administration ordered a stop in upgrades to 30 major information technology projects, a decision that, according to The Washington Post, impacts about $20 billion in government spending. The projects were designed to upgrade computer systems that manage financial information and transactions for federal agencies.
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You may feel like all the tech press has talked about this week is Apple's new iPhone 4. If you thought that was literally the case, though, you'd be wrong. We did some counting and dividing and looked at the number of headlines containing the words Apple or iPhone across a number of online news outlets this week: Techmeme, Google News, Digg and the finest tech blog in the land, ReadWriteWeb.
This week in San Diego is Qualcomm's Uplinq 2010 conference, which is focused on the business and technology behind mobile development. During the opening keynote, company CEO Paul Jacobs announced that Qualcomm would be releasing a free vison-based augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) - potentially enabling developers to build the next generation of mobile AR apps.
