Mayo Vs. Citi, M&A Madness – Week in Review
Mayo Vs. Citi, M&A Madness – Week in Review
This week in business news: The drama between CLSA analyst Mike Mayo and Citigroup continued. Meanwhile, HP won the bidding war for 3Par. [More...]
Cheaper than buying: Online sites offer textbook rentals
Cheaper than buying: Online sites offer textbook rentals
Save money by renting cheap used textbooks online for college from trusted online textbook renters with this handy guide from DigitalTrends. [More...]
Over 145 Million People Use Twitter
Over 145 Million People Use Twitter
According to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, the micro-blogging service has over 145 million registered users and more people are using mobile devices to access the site. Williams wrote on the Twitter blog Thursday that nearly 300,000 third-party applications have been developed around the service, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less. "These … [More...]
iMogul: Plano wunderkind creates iPhone app
iMogul: Plano wunderkind creates iPhone app
Ronnie Baker / staff photo – Twelve-year-old Freddie Ann Hodges demonstrates MeasureMe, the iPhone application she created with her father, Clark. The app uses the iPhone’s camera function to measure its user. [More...]
Apple’s A4 processor takes center stage
Apple’s A4 processor takes center stage
Apple has deployed its indigenously designed ARM-based A4 processor in a number of new devices, including the iPad, iPhone 4 and upgraded iPod touch. read more [More...]
Apple TV swings but misses
Apple TV swings but misses
The previous version of Apple TV was dubbed “take two.” Will the new model be known as “strike three”? [More...]
HP’s Wallet-Busting Win
HP’s Wallet-Busting Win
The insane tug-of-war between Dell and HP for enterprise storage company 3Par has finally drawn to a close. We have a winner, if you want to call it that — the final sale price is more than double the figure Dell initially put forward when it announced its intentions to buy 3Par a couple weeks ago, so who knows how much of that is real value and how much is just financial one-upsmanship. [More...]
The fading iPod Classic
The fading iPod Classic
The iPod helped Apple rise from the dead in the last decade. But the iPod Classic, the device that jump-started that resurrection, didn’t get so much as a mention from Steve Jobs at Apple’s iPod event on Wednesday. [More...]
ACT Could Become Graduation Requirement For HS Students
ACT Could Become Graduation Requirement For HS Students
A new proposal could make it a requirement for North Carolina students to take the ACT in order to graduate from high school. Chairman of the State Board of Education Dr. William Harrison says the ACT test would help the state achieve its goal of making all high school students ready for college. It would also help the state assess how schools are doing and which students are performing poorly … [More...]
Why IT Must Embrace Facebook, Twitter, iPhone
Why IT Must Embrace Facebook, Twitter, iPhone
Consumer technologies are infiltrating the corporate world. Learn to leverage them. [More...]
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