First Tablets from Lenovo

I hope that the Lenovo executives has done a very good job analyzing the enterprise tablet market based on pricing this at a range of $1,000. According to PCWorld (2011-01-03), Lenovo will show its first tablets this week as it moves to make a mark in the fast-growing market led by Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. The …

Facebook Gets a Half a Billion in Private Investment

NYTimes (2011-01-03) – Allegedly Facebook has rased $500 million from GodlmanSachs and a Russian investor (Digital Sky Technologies).  On Sunday night, a number of Goldman clients received an email from their Goldman broker, offering them the opportunity to invest in an unnamed “private company that is considering a transaction to raise additional capital.” The email sent …

65% online consumers buy digital content on the web

Internet Retailer (2010-12-30) – A new study from Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that 65% of web users have paid to download or access some kind of online content. The survey finds digital music and software are the most popular online digital buys, each with 33% of online consumers reporting purchasing those goods. …

1000-Core Processor by Scottish Researchers

PCWorld.com (2011-01-02) – Researchers at a Scottish university claim to have made a breakthrough in the drive towards more powerful processors while conserving energy too. The team, from Glasgow University, led by Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede, have succeeded in squeezing 1000 cores on a single chip. To demonstrate the chip’s effectiveness, the research team used it …

Putin to Order Russian Government to Switch to Free Software

Mashable.com (2010-12-29) -Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015. The 25-point document (available here) outlines specific steps the government must take in order to move off proprietary software and onto free and/or …

What Actually Happened to Skype

Skype has released a more detailed explanation today on what actually caused the service outage this month. According to the Skype Blog (2010-12-29), “On Wednesday, December 22, a cluster of support servers responsible for offline instant messaging became overloaded. As a result of this overload, some Skype clients received delayed responses from the overloaded servers. …

CIOs Big E-mail Security Problems

CIO (2010-12-17) – The Three Big E-mail Security Problems That Keep CIOs Up at Night: Data loss, Data Liability, and Reputation. Such losses, companies must implement effective controls to their messaging infrastructure, while at the same time working with their business owners to not break day-to-day operations. read more…