Latest From Mark McDonnell
Swiss Bank Drops Controversial Wikileaks Suit
March 6, 2008 12:36PM The dismissal of the Wikileaks.org suit by Swiss bank Julius Baer came after a warning about liability. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White had reversed his shutdown order ...
Applied Materials Will Cut Costs in 2008
In spite of the job cuts, Applied Materials may have one saving grace: its photovoltaic manufacturing gear. Analysts say high oil costs have made solar cells an affordable energy alternative. So, regardless ...
Verizon Wireless Readies 4G Network
November 30, 2007 8:45AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Following news that Verizon will use Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its 4G network, Chris Hazelton, an analyst with IDC, noted that the ...
Google’s Storage Plans Raise Plenty of Concerns
Google maps, Google search, Google mail, and next it seems will be Google storage, although the company has yet to announce official details. Increasingly, when Google sneezes, entire industries catch cold, and ...
Did China’s Great Firewall Cause Web Outage?
GreatFire.org, a group in opposition to China’s censorship that monitor’s the nation’s Internet goings on, has three theories about the Internet outage in China. Two of them are related to Falun Gong, ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — has failed to produce ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
September 25, 2007 10:06AM The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — ...
Patch Tuesday Highlights Web-Based Malware
By Jennifer LeClaire August 15, 2007 9:02AM The number of updates Microsoft issued on August’s Patch Tuesday dwarfs the number of patches released over the past several months and highlights the new ...
Video Site Veoh Sues To Stop Universal
August 10, 2007 10:48AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Faced with a lawsuit from Universal, Veoh has asked a court for declaratory relief, a preemptive defensive move in which the court, if ...
Apple Hit by iPhone Touch-Screen Suit
Apple’s iPhone put touch screens into the spotlight once again, and now the patent hounds have begun to bark, with SP Technologies claiming that the iPhone infringes on an SP Technologies patent, ...