Business iPhone apps finder adds new category, products
InfoWorld.com has expanded its iPhone business apps catalog -- an interactive listing of Phone apps of use to professionals, businesses, and IT staff -- to include communications-oriented apps. This brings the number of categories to 24 categories. InfoWorld's editors also added nearly 20 new apps to the finder across several categories, bringing the total number of selected apps to more than 230.
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Skype closes its Extras program for developers
Skype is shutting down Extras, the most important part of its program for outside developers, saying that demand for these third-party plug-ins has been weak.
"Despite the incredible breadth of Extras developed for Skype, simply not enough people were using them to justify our continued support of the Extras programme," Skype official Antoine Bertout wrote Friday in an official blog.
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Finally, the IEEE stamps "approved" on 802.11n Wi-Fi standard
The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard.
There’s been no public announcement yet by IEEE. But Bruce Kraemer, the long-time chairman of the 802.11n Task Group (part of the 802.11 Working Group, which oversees the WLAN standards), has sent out a notification to a listserv for task group members, which includes a wide range of Wi-Fi chip makers, software developers, and equipment vendors.
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InfoWorld releases new cloud computing 'deep dive' report
InfoWorld released today the fourth entry in its "Deep Dive" series of special PDF reports, covering the emerging area of cloud computing.
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AMD to start sampling Fusion chips next year
Next year, AMD will begin providing PC makers with samples of the much-hyped Fusion chips that incorporate graphics processing into the CPU.
Sampling is the precursor to the final release of the Fusion family of chips, which is on track for 2011, said Nigel Dessau, chief marketing officer at AMD, in an interview this week.
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Google helps users jump ship to rival Web services
In a move that flouts common business logic, Google is making it as easy as possible for people to migrate away from its services -- including Google Docs, Gmail, and Blogger -- and by doing so is positioning itself to be users' first port of call within the so-called cloud that many software companies see as the future for computing.
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Court overturns Microsoft's $358 million payment to Alcatel
Microsoft has won an appeal to overturn a $358 million award it had been ordered to pay to Alcatel-Lucent in the latest ruling on an ongoing patent-infringement dispute that began in 2003.
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Microsoft, Yahoo search deal faces DOJ scrutiny
A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft has confirmed.
The DOJ requested additional information about the deal earlier this week, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said. Microsoft expected the DOJ to look into the agreement and conduct a "thorough review," he added.
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Analyst: AT&T likely to keep iPhone exclusive deal
Despite widespread speculation that Apple will open the iPhone exclusive arrangement with AT&T to include Verizon Wireless after 2010, one analyst firm is predicting AT&T's exclusive deal as the wireless carrier will be extended beyond then.
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Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated
A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.
The application, called FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives), will download all documents that have been posted on a Web site and extract the metadata, or the information generated about the document itself. It often reveals who created the document, e-mail address, internal IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and much more.
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