IBM has helped Greek television network AlphaTV to handle its Big Data issues with new IBM high performance tape storage solutions. IBM also celebrated 60 years of magnetic tape storage innovation.
A CDW survey suggests adoption of smartphones and tablets in the workplace is driving down costs and improving productivity.
Chief financial officers (CFOs) are optimistic about the future, but pragmatic when it comes to travel plans.
Disaster recovery is a major stumbling block for businesses, but cloud computing technology can help, a CA survey suggests.
NetSuite is taking the next big step to expand its cloud services with a Commerce-as-a-Service platform built on its flagship Enterprise Resource Planning backend to deliver online business applications that run on any device.
T-Mobile customers with Samsung smartphones join Verizon, AT&T and Sprint users in getting a planned Android Ice Cream Sandwich update.
Apple issued an update that will detect and remove the Flashback exploit, which at one time had infected more than 600,000 Macs worldwide.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook is set to go public at the end of this week. When it does, it might start down the road toward becoming the next Google in terms of wealth as well as the power and market influence that comes with a high market valuation and consistent business success.
NEWS ANALYSIS: LightSquared’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition will give it time to seek a solution for its failure to meet regulatory requirements, the company says.
Apple released two updates on May 14 to remove older versions of Adobe Flash Player and thwart the infamous Flashback Trojan.
Adobe Systems announced the availability of ColdFusion 10, a new version of the company’s server-side development platform that features support for HTML5 and REST.
A woman arrested by federal investigators in a takedown of a phishing scheme has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. The conviction stemmed from Operation Phish Phry, a massive operation that has led to nearly 50 convictions in Los Angeles.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Recent surveys show that businesses are feeling confident about cloud security. Anyone care for a grain of salt?
Nokia, eager to bring its mobile devices to the billion or so users who need phones and Internet access in places such as India and Pakistan, has introduced the Nokia 110 and 112 phones for emerging markets.
Enhancements to its RealPresence video content management platform enable Polycom users to bring live-stream and recorded video to smartphones and tablets.
At its Sapphire conference, SAP unveiled an accelerated cloud strategy for four business categories based in part on its acquisition of SuccessFactors in February.
VMware announced its vFabric 5.1, which provides new automated deployment, open-source support and the SQLFire database.
Healthline has launched a Consumer Engagement Platform, which allows health plan providers and businesses to offer contextual searching of medical data to their members and employees.
HP applauded a judge’s decision to not throw out a key part of the case, but an Oracle lawyer said it is HP that should be unhappy with the ruling.
An Adobe study indicates that Website traffic from tablets has grown 10 times faster that than of smartphones and will represent 10 percent of all Website traffic by 2014.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a sub-3-pound laptop in a carbon fiber chassis that Lenovo is calling the lightest 14-inch notebook that is available. The company is also showing off new ThinkPad X, T, W and L Series offerings.
The new capabilities are aimed at helping businesses deal with the BYOD trend and making intelligent system easier to manage and secure.
AMD officials expect lower-priced ultrathin notebooks will undercut more expensive Ultrabook systems based on Intel chips.
LightSquared, the 4G network that was built on recycled satellite spectrum and failed to gain FCC approval, has declared bankruptcy. Billionaire Philip Falcone said the company will quickly restructure and exit Chapter 11.
New York has pulled itself into the top tier of tech cities, but finding qualified IT workers remains a challenge.
The success of the iPhone and iPad, as well as Android smartphones, is boosting the mobile memory semiconductor market, iSuppli reports.
The appliances support file-sharing in mixed Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix environments, and private cloud storage.
InterSystems has launched a new version of its HealthSense platform that features data-modeling and enhanced analytics to allow doctors to search through unstructured data.
Apple is expected to introduce an iCloud updated with new photo and video features at its Worldwide Developers Conference, according to a report. New MacBooks are also likely.
A slew of information about Apple's upcoming ultrathin, 15-inch MacBook Pro notebook, sporting a Retina display and Ivy Bridge chips, has leaked online.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44 billion back in early 2008. But Yahoo, proudly determined to cling to independence, unwisely rejected the offer. Now a humbled and weaker Yahoo wracked by management turmoil could soon be back on the market at a fraction of its earlier value. It’s time for Microsoft to buy out Yahoo and be done with it.
A Microsoft study shows 35 percent of small and midsize businesses have experienced higher levels of security in cloud environments, dispelling the notion that security qualms make businesses reluctant to go to the cloud.
Cyber-security is considered by many Americans to be a “very important” issue for this year’s election candidates. In particular, a focus on defending utilities and transportation systems from cyber-attacks is important, according to a survey by Unisys.
Global Equities Research reports that Google Drive signups are off to a "very strong start, with probably about 35 million to 40 million signups in 15 days."
The staff of a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on antitrust issues is looking into the Mozilla Foundation’s allegations that Microsoft has made it difficult for competing browsers to run on Windows-powered mobile phones.
Sprint and T-Mobile are among the members of the newly formed Alliance for Broadband Competition, which is asking the FCC and DOJ to look very closely at the potential impacts of Verizon's deals with four cable companies.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Nokia, filing patent-infringement lawsuits against RIM, HTC and Viewsonic, is becoming more American and more emboldened, following its legal defeat of Apple, say analysts. Amazon.com, Huawei and ZTE could be its next targets.
Xamarin has delivered, Xamarin Designer for Android, a new tool for designing Android apps within Microsoft's Visual Studio or the Xamarin IDE.
The Xeon E3-1200 v2 chips are aimed at SMBs and microservers, a small but growing system category that could become a highly contested space between Intel and ARM.
Kaspersky CTO Grebennikov called the OS "really vulnerable" and pointed to the Flashback botnet as proof that the company's asleep at the wheel.
NEWS ANALYSIS: You can bet that over the weekend a lot of people, and not just high-level executives, went to LinkedIn and made sure their resumes are cleansed of even the slightest exaggerations or outright fictions.
Nvidia, which has promised to bring Tegra LTE chips to the United States later this year, has purchased, with Intellectual Ventures, 500 patents related to LTE and LTE-Advanced.
Lenovo, SGI and Appro are among other systems makers who are offering servers and workstations based on new processors from the giant chip maker.
At its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launches a new IDE for developing and building GPU-accelerated applications on Linux and Mac OS.
Small businesses are turning to mobile devices and technologies, virtualization and cloud computing to improve disaster preparedness.
The m-Suite platform provides end-to-end mobile security with data and device protection for a range of mobile platforms.
Yahoo's seemingly endless leadership struggles came to another crossroads when the executive board fired CEO Scott Thompson and replaced him with Executive Vice President Ross Levinsohn as interim CEO.
NEWS ANALYSIS: With regard to the IPO, time now becomes a major factor in how Facebook does its many jobs. With all that money in the bank comes more pressure to get products and services created and into production faster than Facebook might prefer.
Apple is giving Google Maps the boot in favor of a 3D mapping app developed in-house with C3 mapping technology, a report says.
The iPad Mini, sporting a 7-inch screen and a price point between $200-$250, is expected to launch in October, according to a report.
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