Apple Puts iPad On Pre-Order, Ahead of April 3 Release

Apple made its iPad tablet PC available for pre-order through its Apple Website on the morning of March 12, three weeks ahead of its April 3 release.

Twitter Turns on Its Geolocation Feature and It’s Opt-in

Twitter March 11 switched on its long-awaited location-sharing feature and made the service opt-in. Twitter’s geolocation feature, which works for Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome on Windows, tags users’ tweets based on where they are tweeting from

OCZ Launches New Onyx SSDs for Small Offices

OCZ Technology Group has a new SSD, the Onyx Vertex, that at $100 for 32GB of capacity can serve as an entry point for someone curious about trying SSDs. – Home and small-office laptop or deskop users and those who run servers and/or a RAID array at some point might be interested in swapping out a disk drive for a solid-state one for performance purposes. If that’s the case, San Jose, Calif.-based disk-drive maker OCZ Technology Group has a new SSD,…

Vycon Demos Clean Energy Storage Systems for Hospitals

Old-fashioned flywheel power systems are providing hospital data centers with clean, green backup power using a centuries-old technology. – NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Not too many power-supply companies are offering old-fashioned kinetic-energy, flywheel-based UPS [uninterruptible power supply] options in their product lines

Vycon Demos Clean Energy Storage Systems for Hospitals

Old-fashioned flywheel power systems are providing hospital data centers with clean, green backup power using a centuries-old technology. – NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Not too many power-supply companies are offering old-fashioned kinetic-energy, flywheel-based UPS [uninterruptible power supply] options in their product lines

Coyote Point E650GX Balances Virtual Machine Loads

Coyote Point Systems aims to help administrators increase ROI by delivering load balancing appliances that work with virtualization technologies, in particular, VMware’s vSphere. What’s more, Coyote Point offers a new approach to load balancing by shifting traffic shaping from basic Layer 4 algorithms to Layer 7 application-aware calculations.

Opera Mini 5 Beta Available for Google Android

The release of Opera Mini 5 Beta for Google Android follows the March 4 release of Opera Mini 5 Beta for Windows Mobile 5.x and 6.x devices. Opera Software says Opera Mini 5 Beta for Google Android includes such features as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and boosted speed.

Microsoft Will Be Asked to Alter EU Browser Choice Screen Yet Again

Microsoft will be asked by representatives from seven smaller Web browser-makers to alter its Web browser choice screen, which was designed to sidestep European antitrust concerns over bundling Internet Explorer with Windows by offering users an automatically downloaded window with several browser options. A report from a March 8 meeting suggests that the European Commission, the EU’s antitrust body, encouraged the smaller browsers to engage with Microsoft over the issue. While Microsoft has already introduced more randomization into the placement of the larger browsers on the ballot screen, these smaller companies want changes that will give their products a better chance at front-and-center positioning

10 Reasons Why Microsoft Bing is Gaining on Google

News Analysis: Although Google still controls a significant portion of the search space, evidence suggests Bing is gradually gaining ground on the search giant. It still has a long way to go. But if things keep up as they are, Bing may prove to be a formidable competitor to Google in a few short years

Google Bike Directions Point to Google Maps as Key Search Tool

Google’s addition of biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps March 9 is one more example of the search engine giant’s increased emphasis on connecting users to information.