Posted by Chris Preimesberger on January 27, 2012 6:10 PM in General

No, it's not pronounced "bummy." "Boo-mi" would probably be a phonetically more desirable description of the company that calls itself BUMI (Backup My Info!), a managed online backup and recovery service for mid-range and SMBs that's gaining momentum in the...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 27, 2012 12:01 AM in Google Music

Google Music now allows users to download music and let users pair YouTube videos with songs they purchased and chose to share on Google+.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 26, 2012 12:01 AM in Hello, Android

Android phones and tablets are coming out fast and furious, too many for consumers to get a handle on, which could impede purchasing decisions.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 25, 2012 12:56 PM in Google+

Google is keeping quiet about Facebook's Don't Be Evil bookmarklet because it's not going to change a thing about its Google+ and Search, plus your world approach.
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 25, 2012 11:14 AM in Culture, Mobile & Wireless

By Samuel Greengard Apple sent ripples through the education and publishing worlds when it announced that it was looking to redefine the modern textbook. iBook Author could revolutionize the way schools and students use books. It could modernize learning and,...
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Posted by Fahmida Rashid on January 24, 2012 10:36 PM in Data Security, Enterprise security strategy, Ethical hacking

Pwn2Own hacking contest has been modified to drop mobile devices and to make it a fairer competition than the previous winner-takes-all model.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 24, 2012 12:01 AM in Google Search

Google's Hotel Finder feature is expanding to include a travel time feature that helps users filter hotels by how close they want to be to a place when looking for a place to stay.
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Posted by Fahmida Rashid on January 23, 2012 10:24 PM in Apple, Mobile malware, iPhone

Download apps only from trusted sources and official application stores, but also scrutinize the developer name to verify the app's legitimacy.
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 23, 2012 10:16 AM in Enterprise Applications

By Samuel Greengard It's not difficult to spot minor glitches and shortcomings at almost any e-commerce site. But it's shocking to visit a major retailer's site and experience functionality that works more like 1996 than 2012. Welcome to Home Depot...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 23, 2012 12:01 AM in Google+

Google+ user engagement numbers are confounding some people, but Google should just be quiet until it has something important to say.
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on January 20, 2012 5:06 PM in General

A European cloud service is jumping headlong into the online storage wars here in the States. And it's put together an offer that will be tempting to a number of potential users -- in both consumer and small-business markets.HiDrive Free,...
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 20, 2012 11:37 AM in Culture, Social Media, The Web

While waxing nostalgic and looking for the roots of the rebellion against SOPA and PIPA I found a relevant bit of paleoblog navel-gazing come true. From 2003, as the power of social tools -- preached by pioneers like Dave Winer...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 20, 2012 12:01 AM in Google Apps

Google Apps lands Spain's BBVA as its largest customer deployment to date, serving Gmail, Google Docs and other collaboration apps to more than 110,000 employees.
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Posted by Susan Nunziata on January 19, 2012 5:52 PM in Cloud, IT Careers, IT Vendors, Obama and IT, Politics

By Tony Kontzer So, in other words, having declared that the federal government must turn to the cloud in order to shed its wasteful IT past and adopt more cost-effective and user-friendly IT platforms--admittedly sound thinking--the nation's first CIO Vivek Kundra, at the ripe old age of 37, has managed to maneuver himself into a position where he'll be one of the notable financial beneficiaries of that strategy.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 19, 2012 12:01 AM in Google+

Google adds a handful of nifty new features to Google+, including the ability to trigger conversations from search results and record and share videos of yourself.
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on January 18, 2012 8:51 PM in General

Upstart Atlantis Computing, which specializes in virtual desktop infrastructure storage and performance optimization, this week proclaimed that it has done away with storage for VDI systems. Um, say that again, please? We won't trouble you with a repeat -- you...
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 18, 2012 10:51 AM in Culture, Government IT, Social Media, The Web

SOPA and PIPA may be bad news, but they aren't really fresh news. Back in 2002, the equation already had been worked out: Hollywood money + Congressional cluelessness = flawed legislation The issue at that time was a bill aimed...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 18, 2012 12:01 AM in Google+

Google+ gets two cool new features early in 2012: cool photo text additions and auto-complete for hashtags. Check them out.
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 17, 2012 10:34 AM in Culture, Enterprise Applications

by Tim Moran Hard on the heels of college bowl season comes the International Collegiate Programming Finals, a competition that promises "All the excitement of March Madness, without the sweat!" Sponsored by Windward, which started as a gaming company (Enemy...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 17, 2012 12:01 AM in Hello, Android

Google could replace Microsoft as the steward of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show next year. Why not? It's got the Windows of mobile in Android.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 16, 2012 5:57 AM in Off Topic

News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch sounds off on the White House's SOPA stance, singling out Google as a piracy leader. The Web, and Google, respond.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 13, 2012 12:01 AM in Google vs. Facebook

Is Google using Facebook as a pawn in a game of chicken with federal regulators? Could be an evil genius move.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 12, 2012 12:01 AM in Google TV

Google TV is getting support from Marvell and several other partners. We checked out Marvell here at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 11, 2012 1:42 PM in Culture, Mobile & Wireless, Social Media

By Samuel Greengard I'm sitting in a Starbucks in my hometown of West Linn Oregon typing out this blog. There's nothing remarkable about that. These days, we're all wired in from everywhere. I've posted to Facebook from Galway, Ireland and...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 11, 2012 10:07 AM in Hello, Android

Google and Samsung are fast partners now, but an investor argues Samsung is gaining leverage over the search engine by leading the Android mobile market.
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Posted by Ed Cone on January 10, 2012 3:33 PM in Social Media

Big BJ Barnes, the longtime sheriff of Guilford County, NC, looks like a southern lawman out of a bad old movie, but he's really smart and effective and seems likely to get reelected in this urbanized patch of Piedmont for...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 10, 2012 12:01 AM in Google X

CES is a hotbed for new gadgets for augmented reality, including these SmartGoggles from Sensics.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 9, 2012 12:01 AM in Google Strategy

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon constitute the Internet Big Five, according to John Battelle. A chart shows how and why.
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Posted by Fahmida Rashid on January 7, 2012 2:47 PM in DDoS, Data Breach, Hactivism

McAfee addressed hacktivism in their 2012 security predictions.
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on January 6, 2012 8:23 PM in General

Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data, you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn't be simpler. Right. Well, the storage beat is a bit more than that. Storage is the...
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Posted by Fahmida Rashid on January 6, 2012 4:37 PM in Data Breach, Phishing and Fraud, Spam

Several Stratfor subscribers have received emails purporting to be from Stratfor but were clearly from Anonymous. Stratfor has issued a warning, but in this day of paranoia, there are doubts over the warning's legitimacy.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 6, 2012 12:01 AM in Android Tablets

The Google Nexus tablet rumors are boiling over after DigiTimes said Google is having a 7-inch slate built for it. I'd argue Google has to go to 10 inches of superior quality to challenge the iPad.
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Posted by Fahmida Rashid on January 5, 2012 8:52 PM in AV tools, Data Breach, Virus and Spyware

Hackers claiming to have Symantec's Norton Antivirus source code are threatening to publish it, but security researchers and Symantec don't seem all that concerned.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on January 5, 2012 12:01 AM in Google vs. Facebook

Facebook could launch FaceSense, the social network's version of Google's AdSense third-party ad platform.
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Posted by Fahmida Rashid on January 4, 2012 4:39 PM in Facebook

Scammers are tricking users who hate Facebook's Timeline into clicking on likejacking and other malicious scams.
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