came to dominate the industry, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wowed crowds with peeks at cool new products in back-to-back appearances at the Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld.
But this year, the economy's taken a hit, gadget sales are flat and Gates and Jobs are no-shows for the first time at technology's biggest trade shows. Both shows are trying to remain relevant as companies drastically cut back on travel, entertainment Read the rest of this entry »

TechCrunch: EMC Acquires SourceLabs, And With It Open Source Documentation Project SWiK
, provider of a set of tools and services used to support open source software like Linux, at least according to
.
The company sells subscriptions for enterprise support, maintenance, and upgrades for open source software, including SASH, offers a proprietary Open Source Management System and is also behind the wiki website
, a community project that Read the rest of this entry »

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -
Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of mobile and embedded software solutions, today announced the signing of a Soleus® license agreement with one of the world's largest Original Design Manufacturers (ODM) of computers and consumer electronics devices. The ODM is using the Soleus software platform to create two distinctly different wireless devices - a handheld barcode-reading payment Read the rest of this entry »

People who bought the SPF-85H 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame from Samsung for either personal use, or to give it away as a Christmas present, were unpleasantly surprised to have their anti-virus software complain about a worm in the bundled software. Samsung confirmed the incident and issued an update to the affected application.
to all of its customers that purchased the said devices between October and December 2008. "The alert involves the SPF-85H Read the rest of this entry »

RALEIGH, N.C. — During the summer Olympics, PC maker Lenovo used social media marketing to enhance its corporate sponsorship of the Games.
It gave laptops and digital cameras to 100 athletes and asked them to document their experiences. The athletes published more than 1,500 posts. Fans responded with 8,000-plus comments.
That was a big breakthrough for us, said David Churbuck, vice president of global Web marketing, who noted that the effort Read the rest of this entry »

In the midst of a holiday shopping season in which online retail sales might fall for the first time, the general manager of Microsoft's online store said sales and traffic are "really good."
Then again, Larry Engel said the point of his site,
, is not just to post robust sales figures. And Engel does not have much to compare this year's results with: There was no online Microsoft store last year.
In mid-November, Microsoft quietly announced Read the rest of this entry »

BURBANK, CA -
How many hours have you spent searching the
Recycle Bin for a file that you lost, deleted accidentally, or saved over
just to find out that it was gone forever -- that priceless holiday photo
of your child or a whole section of songs you deleted while you were trying
to organize your new music gifts? What about that novel you've been working
on for years that you saved over with a to-do list, or an important project
for work you spent Read the rest of this entry »

The problem with all the latest 3G mobile broadband stuff is that it’s selfish. Only the device with the 3G connection can take advantage of it. That’s why mobile hot spot devices are so generous — they take one 3G connection and create a cloud of broadband that any Wi-Fi-enabled device can share.
The latest of this magnanimous bunch is MiFi from Novatel, a portable wireless router that packs more than just altruism in its two Read the rest of this entry »

Nearly two years after introducing Vista, Microsoft
is grappling with an unanticipated phenomenon: The latest version of its flagship Windows computer operating system remains a rarity in corporate settings. As a result, the software giant finds itself under acute pressure to stay on track with plans to replace Vista with the next version of Windows, code-named Windows 7, perhaps as soon as late 2009.
With the global economy stalling out — Read the rest of this entry »

Alltel Mobile E-mail is also compatible with Microsoft Outlook Web
Access (OWA), allowing customers to easily sync their work calendars and
contacts without IT support or the need to run any software inside the
firewall. Small and medium size businesses can deploy and support Alltel
Mobile E-mail using Workgroup Connector, powered by SEVEN(R), a
desktop software solution that allows one computer to centrally Read the rest of this entry »