Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake, but it’s easily topping the low …
Gartner: Platform as a service market to see sharp growth
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million …
On it’s 5th anniversary, Android solidifies its OS dominance
Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number …
Apple’s Tim Cook named most powerful person in wireless industry
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been named the most powerful person in wireless for 2012. FierceWireless has published its annual list of …
Cisco, Qualcomm collaborate to improve Wi-Fi services
Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are putting their considerable wireless weight behind a system to make it easier for retail stores …
Ballmer attacks Android, Apple, says Microsoft is best of both
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has branded Android ‘wild’ and Apple too ‘controlled’. During a recent conversation with LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid …
Google gives cloud database performance boost
Google’s Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running …
Microsoft Surface web benchmarks reveal poor performance
Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: …
iPad Mini
It’s been two and a half years since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s idea of what a tablet should be — the …
Apple loses tablet market share to Android
Apple has seen its tablet market share decline during the third quarter of the year to Google Android rivals. The iPad maker has seen …
Apple to sell 102m iPads, 194m iPhones in 2013: analyst
Apple will sell 101.6 million iPads and 193.9 million iPhones in 2013, according to an analyst. In contrast to Apple, …
Major vendors announce software support for 64-bit ARM
Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is …
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 …
Google debuts Nexus 10 tablet, Nexus 4 smartphone
Google on Monday announced a new 10-inch Nexus tablet and 4.7-inch Nexus smartphone with the latest Android 4.2 operating system, …
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 …
Microsoft begins Windows 8 upgrade sales
Microsoft has opened its virtual store and begun selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a …
Crowds flood new Microsoft Surface release
About 100 people waited outside Boston’s Microsoft Store Friday to buy the company’s new Surface tablet, which runs a new …
Samsung Chromebook
How much would you pay for a cloud-centric computer? With its new $249 Samsung Chromebook — a system based on the idea …
Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can …
Microsoft kicks off free Office 2013 upgrades
Microsoft on Friday launched an Office upgrade offer that gives customers who purchase the current Office 2010 a free copy …