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Apple Rebrands Itself as iRenewable with Green Data Centers

ed — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:18:41 +0000

Some Apples will be green. Apple data centers, that is. The technology giant has announced that its new half-million-square-foot data center in Maiden, N.C., will only use electricity that has been generated by renewable energy. The company said that the Maiden facility will be “the most environmentally sound data center ever built.” This complements plans [...]

School Districts Adopt Brocade’s Stackable FCX Switches

ed — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:18:55 +0000

Brocade is helping school districts in California, Missouri and South Carolina upgrade their IT networks to achieve substantial cost-savings by taking advantage of the latest technologies built into the company’s entire range of FCX switches. The goal of Brocade’s new “effortless network” initiative is to help the IT departments at schools across the nation — [...]

Reports Abound About New Macs on Their Way

ed — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:19:03 +0000

Rumors about coming MacBook releases are swirling around the Web. Key predictions include a new Intel Ivy Bridge Core quad-core processor, a very thin 15-inch MacBook Pro, super-fast USB 3.0 and Retina displays. Some of the reports are based on the appearance on various sites of benchmarks that purport to be from a new MacBook [...]

Deutsche Telekom Reported Pursuing MetroPCS Deal for T-Mobile

ed — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:18:23 +0000

Change is in the air for the fourth-largest mobile carrier in the U.S. After T-Mobile USA’s merger deal with AT&T went down in flames last year, its parent organization, Deutsche Telekom AG, seems still hungry to unload the money-losing business, lagging behind Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel. So the German conglomerate may be [...]

Google, in Oracle Trial, Says It Made No Profit From Android in 2010

ed — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:19:05 +0000

What does the Android operating system and a can of half-price tuna at the supermarket have in common? Both, it seems, are loss-leaders, examples of big-picture thinking to gain a long-term profit from a short term loss. Just as the cheap tuna brings customers into a store to buy the overpriced items, Android seems to [...]

Facebook Timeline Adds Users’ Organ Donor Status

ed — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:19:09 +0000

Facebook users who like using social media for a higher purpose, take heart. Or at least a kidney. The networking giant’s founder this week announced that users will now be able to use a tool that announces whether they are organ donors and could perhaps match up donors and recipients. At the very least, CEO [...]

Reading Fine Print for Google Drive Raises Privacy Issue

ed — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:19:19 +0000

It’s the end of the week when Google Drive was unveiled, and potential users have now had a chance to look at the software giant’s Terms of Service. The result: questions about privacy for a company that has had more than its share of privacy issues. According to the TOS, Google retains the right to [...]

Apple’s CEO on Tablet-Laptop Hybrids — Really?

ed — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:19:37 +0000

Microsoft’s coming Windows 8 operating system is focusing attention on the possibility of tablet-laptop hybrids. This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to that idea in so many words, amounting to the equivalent of “Really?” Cook told a conference call of analysts that “anything can be forced to converge, but the problem is that the [...]

Samsung Expected To Unveil Cloud Service in May

ed — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:18:31 +0000

You almost can’t be a major technology company these days without having a cloud service. Now, new reports indicate that Samsung is getting ready to take that plunge. According to the South Korea-based Maeil Business publication, Samsung will launch its S-Cloud service on May 3 at a London press event. That date has already been [...]

Oracle-Google Case May Get Crazier

ed — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:18:41 +0000

The Oracle vs. Google trial is in its fourth day in a federal courtroom in San Francisco. Oracle is trying to prove that Google trespassed on its copyright and patents on the Java programming language, while Google maintains it has done no wrong. There’s plenty of speculation — and not just about the case itself. [...]