Despite its longstanding partnership with Symantec and CommVault, Dell says that products from recently acquired AppAssure will become the company’s primary backup …
HTC Q1 profit sinks by 70 percent
High Tech Computer reported a 70 percent year-on-year fall in net profit for the first quarter on Friday, as the …
Gartner slashes IT spending forecast
Analyst Gartner has slashed its forecast for worldwide IT spending growth for 2012. Gartner now estimates worldwide IT spending will …
Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card
Samsung Electronics has started mass producing a microSD card that uses an Ultra High Speed-1 (UHS-1) interface to improve data …
A quarter of the world’s households now have Wi-Fi: survey
A total of 439 million households around the world had installed a Wi-Fi-based home network at the end of 2011, …
Google deprecates old App Engine datastore in favour of High-Replication version
Google is deprecating the Master/Slave Datastore used by its cloud platform App Engine in favor of the High-Replication Datastore (HRD), …
Open-source data mapping tool CartoDB provides customisable views
Vizzuality this week launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB, promising an easy and customisable way for users to display their …
ITU: Broadband key to achieving 2020 carbon reduction commitments
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, has propelled broadband to the front of the world’s …
Oracle frees Ops Center for existing customers
The newest version of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, released yesterday, is now available free for any organisation with …
Microsoft boosts virtualisation capabilities in desktop management suite
Microsoft is boosting the virtualisation components of its Desktop Optimization Pack suite of IT management tools. The suite, known as MDOP, is …
Former Intel CFO Bryant to become chairman next month
Intel’s former chief financial officer and current director Andy Bryant will take over as the company’s board chairman next month …
Sony’s new head of consumer products to lead unit formed from Sony Ericsson
Sony said today that the newly installed head of its consumer electronics business will also lead the mobile unit formed …
McAfee brings antivirus support to VMware’s vShield
McAfee yesterday announced a version of its antivirus software for VMware’s vShield security technology. The McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) …
Cloud to create 14 million jobs globally, 9.62 million in Asia-Pac: Microsoft research
Cloud computing will create 14 million jobs globally by 2015 and 9.62 million in Asia Pacific alone, according to IDC …