May 10, 2011 – Microsoft announced Tuesday it’s intention to buy internet communication company Skype for $8.5 billion. Microsoft’s office suite and other enterprise offerings clearly will give Microsoft an edge it’s currently lacking in real time collaboration over Google’s Docs and Apple’s iWorks. Speculation also abounds around whether Microsoft will integrate Skype with Kinect [...]
May 6, 2011 - The U.S. military is reporting that facial recognition technology was used to identify Osama bin Laden after U.S. special forces killed him last Sunday in Pakistan. Officials with the U.S. said that facial recognition software had been one of the resources used to identify bin Laden. Biometric technology was used [...]
May 4, 2011 – Recent data from a study conducted by the Pew Research Center in conjunction with the Nielsen Company found that social networking giant Facebook is now a “critical player in the news.” Facebook is responsible for driving a growing amount of traffic to online new sites such as Google News. The study [...]
May 1, 2011 – Remember the name: BrightSource Energy. Not a household name, or one that a vast majority of Americans would recognize.. Yet. Large companies are investing in renewable power companies like BrightSource Energy. For instance, last week, Google invested $168 million in BrightSource, followed by an commitment of $100 million to build [...]
Apr 26, 2011 – The chief financial officer of Oracle Corp. has stepped down without an explanation. Jeff Epstein, CFO of one of the world’s largest software companies has resigned, effective immediately after 2.5 years. No reason has been given for the sudden departure. His boss, Oracle President Safra Catz will take over the position. [...]
Apr 23, 2011 -Smartphones like the Apple iPhone and Google’s Android regularly report information about your locations back to Apple and Google according to documents recently released. Google and Apple are gathering and storing information about your location via your cellphone in an effort to build databases of information. Experts believe Apple and Google will [...]
Apr 20 2011 – It’s earnings season and Tuesday’s after the closing bell announcements from Intel and Yahoo sent stocks soaring today. The Nasdaq composite, made up primarily of high tech stocks had it’s biggest one day jump in six months, up 57 points or 1.8%. Technology stocks pulled the Dow Jones Industrial Average along [...]
Apr 15, 2011 – Earnings season got off to a rocky start this week as Google came up short on it’s first quarter earnings. The stock took an immediate hit as it dropped 8.3% Friday after earnings were announced after the close of the bell Thursday. Google reported sales of $6.5 billion better than expectations, [...]
Apr 13, 2011 – General Electric Co. is looking to create over 200 jobs for Virgina as it plans to open an information technology center in Richmond. The new center plans to add over 200 jobs over the next couple of years that will focus on cyber security, data management, application development and architecture. That’s [...]
Apr 07, 2011 – According to a poll just released by Piper Jaffray teens in America can’t wait to get their hands on the latest and greatest Apple product. In a poll of 4,500 high school students, teens indicated interest in purchasing and iPhone or the iPad rose to an all time high, 37% indicating [...]
