Yahoo reported yesterday that its first-quarter profit came to US$286 million, up 28 percent from the same quarter last year, …
Appcelerator’s development tool Titanium now comes with cloud services
Appcelerator has announced version 2.0 of its cross-platform mobile development platform Titanium, which includes integrated cloud services that will make …
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say
More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, …
Toshiba to buy IBM’s retail point-of-sale business for US$850 million
Toshiba said yesterday it will purchase IBM’s retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over …
Microsoft pares Windows 8 to three editions for Intel
Microsoft on Monday said it will sell just three Windows 8 editions for Intel PCs, half as many as the …
Google CEO ‘worried’ about the future of the internet
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed his concern that the freedom of the internet is under constant threat by governments, …
HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake
Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun’s Sparc servers had been in …
Website vulnerabilities fall, but hackers become more skilled
The number of coding mistakes on websites continues to fall but companies are slow to fix issues that could be …
SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses
Cloud storage service provider SpiderOak is taking on Dropbox, Box and other more established services with what it calls the …
CIOs still dismissed as mere techies by CEOs: research
CEOs still often dismiss CIOs as too techie and not aligned business activities, according to Gartner research. The survey of …
Openwave, Synchronica sell out mobile messaging businesses
Two mobile messaging software businesses – Openwave’s Mediation and Messaging units and Synchronica – were sold yesterday in a sign …
Microsoft offers cloud-based video delivery
Microsoft has unveiled a cloud capability, Windows Azure Media Services, for delivering video to clients, including devices. Windows Azure Media Services …
New software bares iOS, Android app performance problems
New software lets IT groups deconstruct mobile apps running live on iOS and Android devices and uncover bottlenecks, glitches, and a whole …
Intel ships new SSD 330 series, but limits it to 180GB storage
Intel’s streak of solid-state drive announcements continued yesterday, when the company announced a new line of SSD 330 drives for …