Salesforce.com will next month begin shipping its Communities application, designed to let companies build external-facing social sites for interacting with …
MediaTek to improve low-cost Android smartphone performance
Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost, Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 …
Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers
The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into …
Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won’t go
Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share …
Study: High growth companies are better at analysing data
The Economist Intelligence Unit has found a strong relationship between the growth of corporate earnings and companies’ use of data …
Amazon Web Services launches new certification programme
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Programme, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers …
Ageing networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks
Ageing networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal
In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering US$17 billion …
Blackberry CEO: Tablets are doomed
Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins has made a bold prediction: He says that tablets don’t have much of a future. “In …
Details expected soon on Intel’s $200 laptop and tablet chip architecture
Intel is expanding into low-cost laptops and tablets starting at US$200 with new low-power Atom chips based on an architecture …
Microsoft previews Skype for Outlook.com
Microsoft is rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com, allowing users to make calls and send instant messages …
Brocade unleashes a data centre barrage
Brocade this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical …
SAP launches ride-sharing app TwoGo
SAP has expanded its foray into corporate sustainability with the release of a carpooling application called TwoGo. The cloud-based software uses Nokia’s …
Coffee with Apple’s Tim Cook stands at $600,000 with 2 weeks left to bid
With more than two weeks still to go, the current winning bid on Charity Buzz’s auction for coffee with Apple CEO Tim …