Nowadays, remote control is one of the main subjects in the field of IT. Especially when it comes down to cut the costs spent on maintenance of devices or the support of customers and users, remote maintenance has become a key technique in which most enterprises, but also individuals, are looking into.
In this post, first you will be provided with a brief description of this technology, what the current standards are and what the future will bring. Read more...
Adobe Systems, the maker of Flash, Acrobat and Photoshop, plans to acquire Utah-based Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share, the companies announced late Tuesday. The deal would combine Adobe’s Web design tools with Omniture’s Web analytics tools. Read more...
WiMAX provider Clearwire has expanded its Silicon Valley network to cover the Google and Intel campuses. This development is a long time coming as the two tech behemoths are principal investors in Clearwire. Cisco is another partner and expects to have Clearwire coverage soon. Everyone else in the San Francisco Bay Area can expect the 4G service at some point in 2010.
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You know those Atari controllers that let you play Atari games without actually having an Atari? That, it seems, is the future of the Guitar Hero franchise, with Activision CEO Bobby Kotick indicating that new titles from the company will be playable “independent of a console.” It’s perhaps a natural step, as the franchise’s developers must surely spend half their time frantically porting games from PS3 to Xbox 360 to Nintendo DS to graphic calculator to… well, you get the picture. Kotick also said some wondrous things that will make those Activision coders slouch even further into their chairs, developers who already were surely fearing for their jobs, indicating that they live within a corporate environment of “skepticism, pessimism, and fear” with the hope of “keeping people focused on the deep depression,” and that he wants to take “all the fun out of making video games.” So, then, that My Chemical Romance edition of the series should be announced any time now. Read more...
Time Inc. considering its own e-reader, according to internal presentation [