News podcast: Network World 360 Cisco has been added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing GM. Travelers has also been added to the stock index, replacing Citigroup.Also, NeuStar is adding one- and two-character names to the .biz domain and making them available to the highest bidders. (5:17) The gadgets of SkyMall The products offered in the in-flight shopping catalog SkyMall range from novel to nifty to nonsensical. We love all things gadget, so we decided to take a few of the more interesting SkyMall products (think Poop-Freeze, Spy Pen Camera, and Feng Shui Compass) for a test drive. Acer announces the first Android netbook (others follow while Asus backpeddles) The Android netbook market is changing faster than gossip in a small town, with Chinese manufacturers leading the way. Acer has thrown down the gauntlet and is the first to announce plans to ship a product -- aiming to have it to market this year, no less. Do we Twitter? Why yes, we do Why the Recession Isn't Driving Outsourcing Prices Down There has been much discussion about the global economic recession's impact on the price of IT outsourcing services. The consensus has been that buyers keen to cut costs coupled with decreasing demand for IT services would drive prices down across the outsourcing market-welcome news for IT executives under pressure to slash their budgets while maintaining quality. 40,000-plus Web sites infected in 'Beladen' Web attacks More than 40,000 Web sites were compromised over the weekend via SQL-injection attacks with malware that attempts to push visitors to a site dishing out malicious software, according to a security firm. Microsoft's No-Controller 'Natal' Steals the Show "You are the controller," teased Microsoft at their E3 conference Monday, firing the shot heard round the blogosphere: a no-controls-whatsoever motion-sensing device. Apple Has Squandered the Gift That Was Vista While it's true that Apple has significantly grown its share of the desktop operating system market since the release of Windows Vista in November of 2006, the company's market share remains below 10 percent, and it actually dropped in Q1 2009, according to Gartner's Worldwide PC Shipment report. China blocks Twitter ahead of Tiananmen anniversary China appeared to block Twitter on Tuesday, following rising popularity for the service in China and just two days before the date when Beijing crushed pro-democracy protests in 1989. Ultra-low voltage laptops draw interest at show Laptops using Intel's low-power chips for machines bigger than a netbook checkered PC displays at Computex Taipei on Tuesday, revealing growing popularity for the chips and the class of laptop. CA plucks automation assets from struggling Cassatt CA has acquired for an undisclosed sum the assets of data center automation vendor Cassatt, perhaps salvaging the technological innovation developed earlier this decade at the financially struggling start-up. Less R&D can spur innovation, says MIT lecturer Apple is thriving and U.S. taxpayers now own General Motors because the former can count its laptop offerings on one hand while the latter seemingly has more car lines than buyers, says Michael Davies, a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management. It's not a novel theory -- for example, Booz Allen Hamilton put a slightly different spin on it several years back -- but it must be music to a bean-counter's ears these days. Why Fi? Reader asks Blass: Would you recommend spending the money for a cell service data card and plan or just relying on Wi-Fi hotspots? |
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