The computer market has been through a very tough year with consumers and businesses simply not buying due to the poor economy. This has led to some heavy losses for some in the computer industry. The economy is slowing starting to come back and the launch of Windows 7 is expected to drive some upgrades in the 2010.
Category: Computing
Dell Profits Decline in Q3 2009
Sony’s Online Service Tries to Build Brand Loyalty
Sony’s new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.
Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai said the service, set for launch next year, highlights an advantage that Sony has over rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. and other manufacturers that don’t produce their own content. Sony’s business empire spans gaming, electronics, movies and music.
Dell’s Black Friday Ads and Pre-Black Friday Deals Released
Dell.com often offers deals on shipping, seasonal sales, or even merchandise specific discount codes and this holiday season is no exception. Dell Home is busting out some great pre-Black Friday deals on laptops and more. Here are three holiday deals we thought you should know about. Check out Dell’s Black Friday and pre-Black Friday ad sales.
China Defense Ministry Targeted by Mass Cyber Attacks
Despite being constantly targeted due to its apparent organized cyber attacks against western countries, China has had to deal with its own repeated cyber attacks against government computer networks, a new report indicates.
It’s unknown if the attacks were launched from within China, but government officials have deflected cyber espionage concerns, while also noting it has been attacked on numerous occasions.
“From the first day the national defense ministry Web site went online, it received a large volume of uninterrupted attacks,” Web site designer Ji Guilin told Chinese media. “In the first month of operations there were more than 2.3 million hack attacks.”
Microsoft Fights Back with Internet Explorer 9
In our series on browsers, we looked extensively at the latest versions (including test versions) of the top 5 mainstream browsers — Opera 10.0, Firefox 3.6 (a1 at the time), Safari 4, Internet Explorer 8, and Google Chrome 4 (this series had four entries which you can find here 1, 2, 3, and 4). We found that Microsoft Internet Explorer had some compelling strengths, such as its security, but overall used too much memory, CPU, and was too slow.
Microsoft is aware of these concerns and it has been racing to develop a successor to IE 8 — Internet Explorer 9. IE 9 looks to be everything IE 8 wasn’t — fast and lean. With the forthcoming release, Microsoft looks to give Internet Explorer a makeover akin to the Windows Vista to Windows 7 transition.
EBay Finally Sells Skype
EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.
Yahoo Turns to Twitter to Help Improve Search Status
Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.
Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics.
Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had earlier announced plans to incorporate Twitter messages into search results, but Yahoo said it will be the first among them to include such “tweets” on its main search results.
3 Charged for Diverting Comcast Traffic
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of Philadelphia-based telecommunications provider Comcast Corp.
Authorities on Thursday charged a 19-year-old from Newark, Del., a 20-year-old from Tumwater, Wash., and a 27-year-old from Kalamazoo, Mich. The men are accused of conspiring to disrupt service of Comcast’s consumer site, comcast.net.
The site features news, sports and entertainment stories and has sections for shopping, games and dating. It also has links to Comcast’s customer support for its cable television, Internet and telephone services.
Investigators say the men on May 28, 2008, redirected traffic to a site they controlled, costing Comcast $128,000.
Dell’s Studio 17 Touch with Multitouch Display is Available
Today, Dell’s Studio 17 Touch laptop with its new multitouch display became available, and the news of the release was barely spoken in a whisper. No need to be bashful, Dell, we know you’ve been going a little touchscreen crazy recently and we commend you on your fervent multitouch mission. Dell’s new 17-inch system adds multi-touch input and carries the company’s own suite of touch apps.
Google’s Chrome OS and Chromium OS Intro Videos
If you didn’t hear about the Google Chrome OS (operating system) preview today, don’t feel out of touch, the event was rather low key. The Chrome OS, an open source operating system based on Linux and Google’s Chrome browser, is still in its early stages of development and apparently won’t launch until the end of 2010. The big news today was that
