Intel said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and …
Toshiba to sell glasses-free 3D laptop
Toshiba will start selling its first glasses-free 3D laptop later this month for US$1,699 to free viewers from the awkwardness …
Companies lose millions from missing memory sticks, states study
While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company’s bottom …
Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server
Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing …
Apple gets injunction barring Samsung Tab in Europe
Apple yesterday confirmed that a German court has granted a preliminary injunction blocking Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
IBM launches new services model for municipal planners
Based on a pilot project with the city of Portland, Oregon, IBM is offering a new services and software model …
African development hubs focus on mobile apps
Increased support of innovation hubs, availability of Web-based public data and increasing adoption of mobile phones have focused the attention …
VMware preparing DLP features for vShield
At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data-loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual …
Google accuses Oracle of delay tactics in Android suit
Google is accusing Oracle of dragging its feet in providing a large volume of documents related to the companies’ lawsuit …
AMD sitting out smartphone market
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is not immediately chasing the market for smartphones as it does not align with the company’s …
IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project
Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have abandoned …
SAP offers premium support option in China
SAP is now offering its high-end MaxAttention support service to customers in China in response to increasing demand there for …
Java 8 gears up for the cloud
Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) …
Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine to reach virtualised servers
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache …