With Apple revealing iCloud price details along with the beta version of iCloud.com, now seems like a good time to explain …
Samsung buys MRAM maker Grandis
Samsung Electronics today said it has acquired Grandis, maker of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology known as spin transfer …
UAE leading telecom infrastructure practice in region: Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the research firm that provides in depth sector and country specific market analysis today held an analyst …
Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
Microsoft has launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits, …
Intel extends cloud research to consumer devices
Intel is opening up two research centres at Carnegie Mellon university that will develop technology around delivery of real-time information …
Clearwire plans LTE network, seeks $600M
Clearwire plans to deploy an LTE network in addition to its existing WiMax system but estimates it will need to …
APTs force IT to rethink security priorities:CISOs
The biggest business challenge today, in the minds of many information security officers, is the stealthy online infiltration by attackers …
eBay swaps hard-disk arrays with SSD storage to deploy more VMs
When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine …
Dice.com lists five IT skills hiring managers want now
Ever wonder which up-and-coming tech skills are catching the attention of IT hiring managers? Careers site Dice.com keeps track of …
Tesco rings up eight year Microsoft contract
Tesco has signed an eight year contract with Microsoft, covering desktop and data centre software to support its offices, stores …
Sprint to sell WiMax service wholesale
Sprint Nextel is a wholesale customer of Clearwire’s WiMax service but will itself become a wholesale provider of the service …
Game not over yet for IE: Net Applications
Worldwide, Internet Explorer’s market share among Windows 7 users rose from 54.6% in June to 54.8% in July, and in …
Android market share nears 50% worldwide: Canalys
It’s a new month, which means that another research firm has released data showing us that Android and the iPhone …
Kenya works with ISPs to bring rates down
At the direction of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, the government has engineered a deal with ISPs that has started to …
IBM announces innovation lab dedicated to tech services
IBM today announced the creation of the Services Innovation Lab (SIL), a new global lab that will initially comprise about …
Black Hat SEO and social media threats on the rise: Sophos
IT security and data protection firm Sophos has published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report. The report reveals that fake …
CIOs lack cloud computing knowledge: KPMG
Traditional IT outsourcing customers are struggling with cloud computing, according to IT service providers and outsourcing advisors surveyed by KPMG …
HP extends Cisco switch trade-in program
HP this week said it has expanded a trade-in program for customers looking to swap out Cisco switches for HP …
Mitek to extend MIC tech to insurance and health care
Mitek Systems’ Mobile Capture imaging software, a provider of mobile banking capabilities for bank customers is turning the technology toward …
IBM speeds storage retrieval
With an eye toward helping tomorrow’s data-deluged organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in …