Despite concerns about increasing competition from Android devices, Apple managed to exceed expectations for iPhone sales for its second fiscal …
LogMeIn takes on Dropbox with ‘Cubby’ cloud storage
Cloud storage leader Dropbox might have serious competition at last. LogMeIn has announced the beta of its rival ‘Cubby’ service, …
BlackBerry still trumps Android for security: analysis
RIM’s BlackBerry remains the clear leader in mobile security with market share leader Android lagging badly, a ‘strengths and weakness’ …
Do insecure open source components threaten your apps?
Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in …
More on the air
With the advent of 4G, operators are being forced to revamp their backhaul strategies, or risk being left behind. Mobile …
At home in the cloud: The emerging opportunity for telecom operators
Residential consumers are demanding more and more cloud computing services and storage, and the volume of data they want to store in the cloud is substantial.
Akamai to launch IPv6 service
Akamai will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base in April – a long-awaited move that will be a major boon to …
Cloud economics improving for users in wake of price cuts
Cloud computing price cuts by Google, Amazon and now Microsoft may indicate that businesses are discovering that moving to the …
Security service automatically removes malicious code from Web pages
Startup vendor StopTheHacker has added a feature to its subscription security service that automatically removes malicious code placed on Web …
Personal clouds will be on 90% of devices by ’15: Research
Within three years the personal cloud will be ubiquitous on consumer devices, Gartner predicts in a research report released Tuesday. …
Price versus brand takes focus in the battle for smartphone supremacy
Established vendors such as HTC, Sony and LG Electronics want to set their smartphones apart from less expensive devices from …
Siemens launches new version of OpenSpace UC suite
Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced Version 7.0 of its OpenScape UC suite that enables the VoIP platform to support up to 500,000 …
Intel starts distributing open source LibreOffice
Intel has begun distributing the open source LibreOffice suite for Windows from SUSE via its AppUp Store – an online …
AppSense DataLocker app makes Dropbox suitable for the enterprise
Virtualisation provider AppSense is making its first move into cloud-based data storage with the launch of a new product called …
Computers may control intersections for self-driving cars
While scientists have been busy with making more accurate self-driving cars, at least one set of researchers has thought even …
Cisco to unify collaboration products
Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Android market tops 400,000 apps
Google’s Android Market now hosts more than 400,000 active applications from about 100,000 publishers, with the majority of apps available …
Technology for a new year
Gartner has revealed its top predictions for IT organisations and users for 2012 and beyond, and they herald changes in …
NFC-enabled phone sales top 35mn in 2011
35 million Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled phones were shipped in 2011, in what has been described as a “breakthrough year” …