In a bid to strengthen its enterprise marketing and management division, IBM plans to acquire customer analytics software company Tealeaf …
RIM CEO vows to wow with BlackBerry 10
In brief remarks to reporters Wednesday, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins revealed little of RIM’s specific plans for the future but …
The future of security
Last month, I’d the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion at our Security Strategist event. The panel comprised chief security …
Hacked websites deliver Android malware for first time
Analysts with Lookout Mobile Security have found websites that have been hacked to deliver malicious software to devices running Android, …
Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
Microsoft to retire Windows Live brand ahead of Windows 8 launch
Microsoft will retire the Windows Live brand as it gets ready to release what it describes as a more connected …
Salesforce.com acquires collaboration tool company Stypi
Salesforce.com has acquired real-time online collaboration platform company Stypi, it announced yesterday. The financial terms of the deal were not …
Botnet shutdowns cause big 2011 spam drop, Symantec finds
Botnet shutdowns have stemmed the Internet spam flood, taking daily message volumes back to levels last seen as long ago …
Facebook begins organ donor initiative
Facebook yesterday announced an initiative to inspire members of the social network to post their organ donor status, offering a …
Cisco creates 115 new IT jobs
Cisco has announced plans to create 115 new jobs in its research and development (R&D) facility in Galway, Ireland. The …
Google makes BigQuery available to all
BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analysing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period …
SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA
SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of …
HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centres
Western Digital company HGST yesterday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive …
Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone market, both continue to dominate
Samsung and Apple again traded places at the top of the smartphone market as Samsung came out on top in …
Microsoft, Barnes & Noble deal could lead to Windows-based tablet, analysts say
Microsoft’s new partnership with Barnes & Noble could lead to development of a Windows-based tablet or e-reader, not just a Nook e-reader application for …
VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service offering …
Symantec: Small-company security problems can threaten large corporate nets
Attackers used smaller businesses with less stringent security as gateways to their ultimate targets – large corporations or governments that hold valuable …
Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform
Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner …
Small businesses are the vast majority of Google Apps early adopters
While Google is pitching Google Apps as an ideal productivity solution for enterprises, a large majority of its early adopters …
Gain with intelligence
Storing data is one thing, but how does a company actively gain intelligence from analysing the data and then pump …