Skype Restores Service, Offers Customers Credits
After the longest, most widespread outage in Skype history, the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) company is offering credits to clients. The move comes amid a strong backlash from faithful clients. More...
How is Porting Applications to the Intel AppUp Center Like Two Famous Starship Captains?
Bob Duffy takes a look at how two different iPhone developers ported their games to AppUp for netbooks running Windows. Duffy notes that during the two methods are very different, both follow some common practices. More...
Here are 2010 S&P 500 gainers
Akamai Technologies Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. , helps to deliver content and monitor traffic on the Internet. This is a stock in which fortunes have been made, and lost. More...
Skype to compensate customers affected by recent service outage
In an attempt to apologize to its users for the Wednesday outage of its VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, Skype has decided to offer compensation to its paying clients who could not make calls while the notably long shutdown of the service. More...
Study
Bangalore, Dec 25 Indian enterprises face challenges in protecting and recovering data as they increasingly adopt virtualisation and cloud computing, a study by global security solutions provider Symantec Corporation revealed. More...
Brunei is 'well-positioned' to be data centre hub
"Brunei is very so then-positioned to develop data centres due to its highly stable political climate and good infrastructure and that the country is safe from a natural disaster perspective," said Idris Vasi, CEO of DST Group, in a just-released report on the Sultanate published by the Oxford Business Group. More...
Using cost effective channels protects services
Warwickshire county council's head of ICT talks about why research is so important in a time of cuts, and how councils can learn from each other. More...
Amazon Responds with Export Capability for Virtual Machines
Exporting data should be a common place capability for cloud computing clients. Those that do provide the capability will be rewarded. Clients want the ability to export data. More...
High-tech gadgets dressed up to look old
Clockwise from top left, the U. S. B typewriter, the Yeti THX-certified microphone, the BookBook MacBook Pro case, the Crosley portable U. S. B. turntable, the ThinkGeek Bluetooth handset and the Surround-sound X-Tube. More...
Why Wouldn't You Want Applications?
How come? It’s simple, in effect: Chrome OS both giveth and taketh away. What it giveth is simplicity and security–since it’s pretty much just a Web browser that’s sprouted stubby little legs that let it function as an operating system, there’s very little that can go wrong. More...