Microsoft’s next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed Windows 8, will debut in 2012, company CEO Steve Ballmer said …
Mammoet deploys Riverbed in data centres
Mammoet, a provider of heavy lifting and transport solutions, has successfully deployed 65 Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its three data …
Industry agrees on vulnerability reporting format
Three years after its founding, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is starting to bear …
Software glitch caused Exchange Online to trip up
A software bug caused e-mail queues of some Exchange Online customers in the Americas to clog up on Thursday, leading …
An app store future and what it means
Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and other iOS devices is an unqualified success, blowing through the 10 billion downloads …
Nokia kills Ovi brand for mobile services
Nokia will abandon its Ovi mobile services brand as it prepares to sell smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, …
Google launches Chrome OS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are “torturing users” at Google’s Chrome OS launch …
EMC’s Tucci sees hybrid cloud becoming de facto standard
As far as EMC CEO Joe Tucci is concerned, the future of his company is the hybrid cloud and big …
Apple topples Google as top brand, says report
Apple has topped Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released over the weekend …
Dell works towards faster virtualisation
Dell announced today a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualised environments. “The PowerEdge …
IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes
IBM says it will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this year. …
Iomega launches NAS storage line for SMEs
EMC subsidiary Iomega today unveiled a new series of simple disk storage arrays aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and remote …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Riding the cloud
The Jumeirah Group has built a private cloud in a hybrid environment to connect disparate offices and improve efficiency. Home …
Nokia outsources Symbian OS activities, transfers employees
Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, transferring 3,000 employees to the company in the process, as it …
Nokia’s profit drops
Nokia reported an increase in sales for the first quarter, but profit declined and the company expects a challenging second …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
Malaysia to offer free e-mail to all citizens by 2015
Malaysia plans to offer every adult in the country a free Web-based e-mail account to ensure that tax returns, court …
Mobile independence
Consumerisation of IT has created a desire in every employee to access corporate information using a array of personal mobile …
Windows XP still most popular, says research
Windows 7 has expanded its lead over Windows Vista with more than 350 million licences sold after 18 months on …