Accusations of monopolistic practices have been lobbed at Google for years, but now they are reaching a fever pitch, and investigations may be coming Google may soon face allegations of anti-competitive behavior in the United States similar to the way […]
8 radical ways to reduce data center power costs II
Radical energy savings method 7: Bury heat in the earth In warmer regions, free cooling may not be practical all year long. Iowa, for example, has moderate winters but blistering summers, with air temperatures in the 90- and 100-degree range, […]
8 radical ways to reduce data center power costs I
Radical energy savings method 5: Use SSDs for highly active read-only data sets SSDs have been popular in netbooks, tablets, and laptops due to their speedy access times, low power consumption, and very low heat emissions. They’re used in servers, […]
IBM’s New Software Platform To Help Create Intelligent Products
IBM’s new software platform and related services will help manufacturers create more intelligent products at low cost. To help manufacturers and designers create products that enable people to live and work in a smarter manner, IBM has launched a new […]
Facebook Launches Contest For UK Developers
Facebook would become the first social networking site to showcase apps in Hindi as it calls for entries in English and Hindi to showcase Web development skills in two categories of Facebook apps and Facebook Connect Integrations. Best Microsoft MCTS […]
Google +1 Is Not a Social Network
Social networking services and features like Google +1 can be lonely places when they first launch. Google’s latest experiment presents easy-to-use features that let you tell the world you like something, but so few people are actually using the service […]
Flickr Adds Individual Photo Sharing
Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service said Wednesday that users can now share individual photos, a capability that surprisingly the service had never introduced. Previously, users could only share photostreams, sets and groups to friends and family via email. Now, users can […]
Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 for Android Maemo
One week after the launch of Firefox 4, Mozilla on Tuesday released the mobile version for Android devices. Firefox for Android and Maemo includes many of the features available in the desktop version of Firefox 4, and is available in […]
iPad 2 ship date improves now only 3 to 4 weeks
Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Training at Certkingdom.com Sales of the iPad 2 were through the roof, leaving many stores iPad-less, and many iPad-2-hungry customers willing to pay exorbitant amounts on eBay. Online sales were backed up […]
10 IT positions ranked by prestige
People often judge you by your job title — as unfair as that may be. Alan Norton ranks 10 IT job roles based on the degree of respect they command. Humans have an innate desire to categorize everything from animals […]