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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, January 12, 2012
 

 

Computer Industry
  • "Steve Ballmer Reboots: Cooler tech, more energy, higher profit—the Microsoft CEO is out to prove Steve Jobs wrong and make Redmond relevant again" Bloomberg Businessweek 10:12 AM
  • "Bloomberg Bizweek: Steve Ballmer a Monkey Boy No More" AllThingsD 9:23 AM
  • "Microsoft's Ballmer: If I had it to do all over again..." ZDNet 12:30 PM
  • "Hon Hai Plant Dispute Is Resolved: Microsoft Corp. and its contract manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group said late Wednesday that worker unrest at a plant in central China this month has been resolved and most of the staff has returned to work." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:13 AM
  • "Foxconn Resolves Pay Dispute With Workers" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:43 AM
  • "Foxconn Settles Wage Dispute With Workers in China" PC Magazine 11:19 AM
  • "Microsoft speaks, market says 'So what?'/Analysis: Software giant's remarks on PCs meet impassive investors" MarketWatch 9:23 AM
  • "Microsoft execs jab at Google after signing Android patent-licensing deal" Silicon Valley 10:30 AM
  • "Following LG Patent Deal, Microsoft Execs Taunt Google On Twitter" TechCrunch 12:02 PM
  • "Microsoft, LG Strike Android Patent Deal: New agreement means Redmond now gets revenue from 70% of all Google-based smartphones sold in the U.S." InformationWeek 11:02 AM
  • "Microsoft In Patent License Deal With LG On Android, Chrome" Forbes 9:35 AM
  • "Microsoft, LG Enter Android, Chrome OS Agreement" eWeek 10:52 AM
  • "How Microsoft-Nokia could go from risk to success" CNET News 9:41 AM
  • "Windows Phone: Microsoft's Comeback Kid? Microsoft is all-in with Windows Phone and believes all the pieces are in place for a successful 2012." InformationWeek 9:46 AM
  • "Microsoft: 2012 Will Be Big For Windows Phone" PC Magazine 11:20 AM
  • "Why Windows Phones Are the Most Exciting Handsets at CES" Wired 12:27 PM
  • "Windows phone: Nokia makes big leap with Lumia 900 (video)/Windows phone from Nokia is its best in years. By replacing its own OS with the Windows Phone OS, the Nokia Lumia 900 has vastly improved feel." VentureBeat 10:22 AM
  • "Best phone of CES 2012: Nokia Lumia 900" ZDNet 12:30 PM
  • "Are there too many smartphones on the market? Microsoft manager at CES talks about iPhone's impact" Computerworld 10:27 AM
  • "Microsoft Beefing Up CeBit Presence Even as It Pulls Back on CES" AllThingsD 9:37 AM
  • "Microsoft the Sleeper Hit Of CES 2012?" PCWorld 11:35 AM
  • "Microsoft shelves Web TV plan after media partners balk at costs" Reuters [Free Registration Required] 11:01 AM
  • "Microsoft sharpening axe for marketing heads - report: Hundreds of jobs at stake in cultural revolution, say sources" The Register 12:12 PM
  • "IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms: Instead of just storing all your songs of a drive, breakthrough also will let you store all your Videos" Computerworld 1:17 PM
  • "IBM Expands Social Business Effort With New Services" eWeek 10:51 AM
  • "IBM software eases role-based security operations: IBM's 'Security Role and Policy Modeler' helps automate hard process of defining roles and policies" Network World 11:42 AM
  • "A closer look at Lenovo's enterprise and hybrid ultrabooks" Computerworld 10:27 AM
  • "Judge says Oracle-Google trial will take two months and hints it could slip into 2013" Foss Patents 10:53 AM
  • "Oracle proposes speedy path to injunction or settlement 'to bring Android back into the Java fold' and end 'Google's lawless conduct'" Foss Patents 10:53 AM
  • "Oracle Strikes At SAP Hana With TimesTen Database: Promising real-time performance for transactions and analytics, Oracle's in-memory database is ready for use in the Exalytics appliance." InformationWeek 9:46 AM
  • "Oracle punts carrier-grade Sparc T4 servers: Sun Microsystems used to be the dot in dot-com, and sold billions and billions of dollars of Sparc/Solaris gear during the first waves of the commercial Internet build out." The Register 3:07 PM
  • "Dell undecided on whether to put Android or Windows 8 on late-2012 consumer tablets" ZDNet 12:30 PM
  • "Dell to Start Second China Inning" Zacks 12:48 PM
  • "Re-energized Intel roars back at CES/Commentary: Feared a has-been, the chip maker kicks some sand" MarketWatch 9:25 AM
  • "Intel Teases Tasty Tizen Tablets/Intel is targeting three operating systems for tablets: Windows 8, Android ... and Tizen." PC Magazine 11:20 AM
  • "Up Close with Nikiski, Intel's Concept Laptop of Tomorrow" Techland 12:13 PM
  • "Intel's proprietary real-time social media tracking technology tackles CES" ZDNet 12:31 PM
  • "Intel smartphone chip No. 1 in some benchmarks, says Report" CNET 3:38 PM
  • "AMD hopes to take down Intel's Ultrabooks on price: Thin-and-light laptops based on the company's upcoming Trinity chips could start at $500" IDG News Service 11:05 AM
  • "U.S. CIO Unveils Mobile Strategy for Federal Government" CIO 11:41 AM
  • "Limping HP Retains Top PC Spot, With Muscular Lenovo Close Behind" eWeek 10:52 AM
  • "A miserable holiday for PC sales" CNNMoney 12:40 PM
  • "Gartner: Ultrabooks aren't tickling anyone's fancy/Just as world PC market shrinks 1.4% in Q4" Channel Register 12:11 PM
  • "U.S. PC Shipments Shrank in 2011 for First Time in a Decade: Hurt by sluggish consumer spending, supply shortages, and the popularity of smartphones and tablets, the PC market declined for the first time since 2001" Bloomberg 10:11 AM