• Gaining Postini features is a boost for Google Apps

    Posted July 21, 2011 - 3:00 pm

    Google Apps will become a more secure and easier-to-manage collaboration and communication suite now that Google has started integrating e-mail security features into it from its Postini suite.

  • Dell fills data center technology stack with Force10

    Posted July 20, 2011 - 2:33 pm

    Dell's acquisition of Force10 Networks will fill a critical networking hole as the company buys its way into building an integrated technology stack for data centers, analysts said on Wednesday.

  • Apple's Lion could drive Mac OS X adoption

    Posted July 20, 2011 - 9:07 am

    Apple on Wednesday released its latest operating system, Mac OS X version 10.7, an upgrade that may be incremental, but nevertheless will likely contribute to the Mac's rising popularity especially among consumers.

  • Would analytics calm social network privacy fears?

    Posted July 14, 2011 - 12:35 pm

    With the unveiling of its Google+ social network, Google is again bringing to the spotlight the recurring question of whether social network privacy settings are too complex, confusing many users and causing them to share posts with more people than intended.

  • LightSquared faces more turbulence over GPS

    Posted June 29, 2011 - 9:37 pm

    There's little disagreement about what a test report expected this week will say about LightSquared's proposed LTE network: It knocks out GPS on many devices. There's far less consensus about what causes the problem and what to do about it.

  • BPOS customers face transition to Office 365

    Posted June 27, 2011 - 10:53 am

    When Microsoft launches Office 365 on Tuesday, the countdown will officially begin for current BPOS customers to upgrade to the new suite.

  • Is it time for RSA to open up about SecurID hack?

    Posted June 10, 2011 - 9:25 pm

    For any company that makes its living selling security, it's a nightmare come true. This week, RSA Security admitted that hackers who broke into its network three months ago had stolen information about its SecurID tokens and then used that information to attack a customer, Lockheed Martin.

  • 5 productivity boosters in OS X Lion

    Posted June 7, 2011 - 9:25 am

    While iOS 5 looks like a bit of a snooze, today's announcement of OS X Lion looks like a productivity geek's playland. Better navigation throughout the OS, improved file management, and cool sharing features should make Lion well worth its $30 price tag. Here are five ways it'll make Mac users more efficient.

  • Intel's new smartphone chip is key ARM battle

    Posted June 7, 2011 - 8:18 am

    Intel's upcoming Medfield chip will be an acid test of the chip maker's ability to enter the smartphone market and battle ARM, analysts said.

  • FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org?

    Posted June 2, 2011 - 3:10 pm

    Oracle suddenly announced Wednesday it was submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, ending speculation about the open-source productivity suite's fate following Oracle's recent announcement it would be transitioned to a "solely community-based project."

  • Google Wallet may be missing key partners

    Posted May 26, 2011 - 3:50 pm

    While Google had some notable partners at the launch of its mobile payment platform, the companies that weren't there could end up determining the success of the project.

  • Has Oracle stopped making big acquisitions?

    Posted May 23, 2011 - 5:33 pm

    As midyear approaches, Oracle has made only two small acquisitions. This is out of character for a vendor that has made buying other companies a core growth strategy, doing as many as 13 deals each year since 2005, for a total of roughly 70 since then.

  • Is Sony getting a bad rap on its data breach?

    Posted May 13, 2011 - 8:22 pm

    Sony didn't show up for last week's Capitol Hill hearing on its massive data breach, thought to have affected more than 100 million video gamers. But that didn't stop Representative Mary Bono Mack from laying into the company, along with Epsilon, a marketing company that experienced a similar breach just weeks before.

  • New Intel tablets could slow iPad enterprise appeal

    Posted May 13, 2011 - 4:34 am

    Tablets based on Intel's first dedicated tablet processor may not be a monster hit among consumers like Apple's iPad, but they could find adoption in enterprises, analysts said this week.

  • ARM not ready for Apple's MacBooks, analysts said

    Posted May 12, 2011 - 4:39 am

    Apple's possible move from Intel x86 chips to ARM processors for its MacBooks is feasible, but not practical over the next few years because of technical and performance issues, analysts said this week.

  • Webmasters face new site optimization challenges

    Posted May 11, 2011 - 10:02 am

    From the Web's early days, companies have struggled to make their sites faster, but the problem remains a thorny one, with new challenges emerging regularly as technology advances.

  • Microsoft goes on the defensive with Skype acquisition

    Posted May 10, 2011 - 8:33 am

    Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype is largely seen as a defensive move by analysts, as the company struggles to keep up with the likes of Google and Facebook on the Internet.

  • SAP has some explaining to do at Sapphire

    Posted May 9, 2011 - 8:00 am

    While SAP has spent the past year spinning a vision for on-premises, on-demand and on-device computing, its upcoming Sapphire conference is an opportunity for the vendor to lay out some important specifics on these plans for the thousands expected to attend.

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    Amazon cloud outage: The situation is catastrophic but not serious

    Posted April 22, 2011 - 4:37 pm

    While the failures have been catastrophic, perhaps embarrassing and will hopefully prompt a review of application deployment and recovery strategies, they are not serious enough to change the dynamics of cloud adoption in short or long term.

  • Amazon gets 'black eye' from cloud outage

    Posted April 21, 2011 - 8:45 pm

    For a company that's known as the dominant player in the cloud market, Amazon's troubles on Thursday means a black eye for the company and for the cloud in general.

  • Why Apple tracks you via iPhone: It's not why you think

    Posted April 21, 2011 - 9:34 am

    Wondering why your iPhone and 3G-enabled iPad are storing your general location in an easily accessible database on your PC? It's simple. Apple uses this information to build a cell tower and Wi-Fi access point location database, and the company admitted as much last year. At least that's my theory. Let's take a look.

  • Apple vs. Microsoft by the numbers

    Posted April 19, 2011 - 2:10 pm

    A little less than a year ago, Wall Street reached a Microsoft vs. Apple milestone: for the first time, Apple's corporate value surpassed Microsoft's.

  • Taiwan contract makers add to choices for end users

    Posted April 18, 2011 - 6:11 pm

    When it was founded in 1997, a Taiwanese firm with the drab, generic name High-Tech Computer did what almost everyone on the island does: It made its money doing contract manufacturing work for bigger-name brands.

  • How to get the best deal from Oracle

    Posted April 15, 2011 - 3:17 pm

    Oracle is now in its fourth quarter, meaning the vendor and its customers are locked in the annual ritual of trying to get new deals done before the fiscal year ends on May 31.

  • Intel goes all-out to compete with ARM in tablets

    Posted April 14, 2011 - 7:28 pm

    Intel is speeding up the release of tablet chips in an attempt to close the power and performance gap with ARM, which dominates the tablet market, analysts said this week.
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