Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management …
HP ships $169 Slate 7 Android tablet
Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company’s reentry into the …
Apple, Microsoft spar over fees for SkyDrive iOS app
Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has …
Google buys parcel storage service BufferBox
Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that …
Settling in with Windows 8
You’ve successfully installed Windows 8. You’re staring at the Start screen, in all its flat-tiled glory, and it all seems completely …
AMD to sell ARM-based server chips in 2014
Advanced Micro Devices has announced it will sell ARM-based server processors in 2014, ending its exclusive commitment to the x86 …
Islamic hacktivists’ bank attack claims gain credibility
The ‘denial of service’ attack that disrupted the Wells Fargo & Co. electronic banking operations was the fourth since in …
10 free Android apps for everyday use
There are a ton of Android apps out there — 600,000 in the Google Play store alone, the company said at this …
Intel unleashes high-performance server chips for cloud computing
Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from …
Oracle collaborates with rivals on CAMP cloud standard
Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle, along with a number of other software and online services providers, have collaborated …
Compromising cloud security is necessary risk, experts say
Compromises in security are necessary to make cloud services easy to use for non-technical consumers, experts have said. The question …
3 steps to dodge the DDoS bullet
It is an all-too-common headline: Prominent website brought down by attackers. The backstory to this growing threat to business is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).
PayPal to pay security researchers for reported vulnerabilities
Payment services provider PayPal will reward security researchers who discover vulnerabilities in its website with money, if they report their …
Scary times ahead for smartphone vendors, says analyst
The rest of 2012 will be very challenging for smartphone makers as they struggle to find ways to differentiate their …
Google to sell Nexus smartphones, tablets direct, report says
Google is reportedly moving to more direct sales of its Android smartphones and tablets in an apparent move to wrest …
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 …
The faster new world of healthcare
The healthcare industry is on the brink of unprecedented change.
Apache embraces cloud with Deltacloud approval
Extending its range of open-source projects to cloud computing, the Apache Software Foundation has approved the Deltacloud as a top-level …
Mobile apps fail at security: viaForensics
A study from digital security company viaForensics paints a stark picture of the vulnerability of smartphone user data. viaForensics evaluated …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …