Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on …
Raspberry Pi sells out in US
The U.S. distributor of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer quickly exhausted its limited supply of the devices Monday. Allied Electronics, …
Windows 8 adoption slowly climbs
Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market, though it …
Dell plans all-flash arrays and unified software
As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build …
Big Switch hopes to drive OpenFlow adoption
In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for …
IT salaries see gender gap shrink
The field of IT is notorious for being persistently male-dominated, but that doesn’t mean women still suffer from a gender gap …
Acer beefs up Chromebook line with new C7
There appears to be no end to the Chromebook phenomenon, which has seen PC maker after PC maker jump onto Google‘s Chrome …
Tightening the ship
Topaz is a Dubai-based oil field services company that provides marine and engineering solutions to the global energy industry. After …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
Google updates IT controls for Chrome OS
Google has updated the IT controls for its Chrome operating system, meaning that IT administrators now have more control over …
ARM server maker offers cloud service to port x86 code
ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing …
Review: Chromebook Pixel
Anyone who thinks the Chromebook Pixel is a ludicrous idea hasn’t actually tried one – or at least that’s our …
Hortonworks ports Windows version of Hadoop
Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops, it was reported on Monday. The …
Disabling Java on your Mac
With the news that some Apple, Facebook, and Twitter employees’ Macs were hacked, as well as Apple and Oracle’s subsequent software …
Three alternatives to Adobe Reader
Another day, another critical security exploit discovered for Adobe Reader. The PDF software’s near-ubiquitous presence has made it a big, fat, …
Tizen 2.0 seeded to developers
Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung, on Monday released the software development kit and source code for …
Adobe patches Flash and Shockwave
Adobe on Tuesday released security patches for both Flash Player and Shockwave Player, addressing a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting …
M2M poses security risks – watchdogs
Security watchdogs are now worried about a new attack vendor that cybercriminals could take advantage of – the growing number …
Flash Player vulnerabilities trigger emergency update
Adobe updated Flash Player on Thursday in order to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have reportedly been …
Jailbreak for iOS 6.1 released
Monday saw the release of a program to jailbreak Apple devices running iOS 6, sparking over 100,000 downloads in the first 10 …