Apple's upcoming iPhone, Mac and television launches are just a few of things Piper Jaffray analysts have their eyes on, and are reasons they expect Apple stock to reach $1,000 in the next couple of years.
CEO Eugene Kaspersky says iOS-based devices, such as the iPhone and iPad, will need antivirus software, and he laments that Apple won't let his company develop it.
CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t actually say that 500 million Windows 8 devices would be sold by the end of next year; he was talking about Windows in general. But there are a number of factors to consider in evaluating the ultimate market impact of Windows 8.
Following its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google is working on a 7-inch Android tablet, according to a DigiTimes report.
The mayor of a northern New Jersey city has been charged with conspiring with his son to bring down a Website calling for the mayor's recall and intimidate anyone involved with it.
IBM has enhanced its Smarter Commerce strategy with a new cloud-based offering aimed at chief marketing officers (CMOs), and marketing departments in general, that focus on the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.
The FCC has approved a proposal allotting a dedicated spectrum for wireless medical sensors, advocated by GE Healthcare and Philips Healthcare.
Dell's Windows 8-based Latitude 10 tablet seems to have received a premature introduction, due to a leaked document. Here, several experts weigh in on a remaining mystery—its price.
OpenLogic said it saw a 730 percent increase in the number of open-source scans in Q1 2012 as opposed to Q1 2011.
The rebranding effort, which includes a new logo, is part of a larger shift by the UC company away from hardware to software.
The networking and collaboration vendor instead will focus on growing its software efforts, such as the Jabber UC platform and WebEx online meeting solution.
Google is letting its users know what copyrighted materials are being infringed upon through its search service.
AT&T's survey found mobile technology and cloud computing have helped businesses augment their disaster recovery plans.
This time, it's French regulators who are saying that the search giant is being uncooperative with investigators probing the company's new privacy policies.
With its new Axis browser plug-in, Yahoo is making a move into the browser space and showing the struggling company still has some fight in it.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft and Google have been waging an endless war for wealth, power and influence in the IT industry. The stakes have never been higher for the two companies, and it’s about time everyone understands where this conflict is heading.
Will the iPhone 5, with the Samsung Galaxy S III, usher us into a weird world where we hang out chatting with our phones instead of our friends or family? New John Malkovich ad with Siri suggests: yes.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is making the shift from paper to digital records for the 2012 London Summer Games by using GE's Centricity EHR platform.
Microsoft joined forces with IBM, Citrix, Progress Software, SAP and WSO2 to move the Microsoft Open Data Protocol (OData) specification to the OASIS standards body.
Two researchers have submitted a draft proposal to the Internet Engineering Taskforce about a way to catch forged SSL certificates and address challenges to the level of trust in certificate authorities.
Apple’s third-generation iPad, two months after going on sale, has matched the user numbers of the original iPad, according to data from Localytics.
NEWS ANALYSIS: As HP changes emphasis, will it relinquish some of its global services business to IBM so it can focus on research and development and building new Converged Cloud systems?
The qualification of Nvidia’s Icera 410 LTE chipset on AT&T’s 4G network means Nvidia-based 4G devices will be hitting the market later this year, the company said.
Nvidia's Tegra 3-based Kai platform will enable OEMs to make quad-core Android-running tablets that are priced at $199, according to company officials.
SaaS-based application performance management (APM) provider New Relic has teamed with Web app testing specialist SOASTA to deliver a combined solution that provides testing and APM support from development through operations.
IBM's predictive analytics software enabled North Carolina to detect $6.2 million in potentially fraudulent Medicaid payments.
iPhones and smartphones running Android—most of them from Samsung—heavily dominate a mobile ecosystem in which the third-largest player has only a 6.8 percent share, according to IDC.
IBM finalizes its acquisition of Varicent Software, a provider of analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. IBM initially announced its plans to acquire Varicent in April.
The company is looking to leverage its SIP expertise with larger businesses that are beginning to grapple with such trends as BYOD, UC, multimedia and video.
Cloud storage provider Box takes a step closer to the enterprise with a slew of admin tools for enterprise content sharing and management.
Elpida displaced Micron Technology from third place in DRAMs. Ironically, Micron is the company most likely to acquire Elpida.
The R320 and R620 backup appliances, 2U in height, will now support up to a whopping 48TB maximum raw capacity.
Small-business owners are turning to mobile technology to cope with longer, more intense work schedules, a Sage survey suggests.
Consumers are more likely to use Bluetooth and Ant+ to track their health themselves than doctors that monitor patient vital signs remotely, according to a report by IMS Research.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Judge William Alsup has become The Decider in what could become a landmark case in software intellectual property.
Google's doodles take a step forward in complexity as the company honors the man who created the analog Moog synthesizer.
A closer look at SAP’s $4.3 billion acquisition of procurement application and transaction network vendor Ariba reveals that the value is in Ariba’s transaction network that its customers and partners use to complete purchases, not because Ariba’s applications are cloud-delivered. But Oracle still has reason to worry about this deal.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Beset by legal challenges at home and abroad, Google on May 23 had plenty of reasons to celebrate after a federal court jury voted unanimously that it hadn’t infringed any of Oracle’s Patents on the Java language. The decision came a day after Google closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility after a prolonged regulatory review of the deal.
A new report from McAfee said the amount of Android malware detected during the first quarter of 2012 shot up 1,200 percent. Malware targeting Windows PCs jumped as well, the firm reported.
AT&T gave some New Yorkers a boost recently, upgrading 2G bandwidth to 3G and 4G, in support of higher-speed users, which the spectrum wars are all about.
"We continue to face a weak overall demand environment," CEO Meg Whitman said on the quarterly results call to analysts.
Oracle announced plans to acquire Vitrue, a cloud-based social marketing company that helps customers create, publish, moderate, manage, measure and report on their social marketing campaigns.
The jury in the Oracle vs. Google case came back with a unanimous verdict that Google did not infringe any of Oracle’s patents. The judge in the case dismissed the jury, but still has to decide on leftover issues from the copyright phase of the trial.
Google is alerting users infected with DNSChanger malware that they should clean their computers or face possibly losing Internet access in July. The FBI issued a warning of its own about the malware in April.
The networking vendor is looking to add video conferencing capabilities as it competes with Cisco, Polycom and Avaya.
IBM has banned Apple's Siri digital assistant--along with other apps and services--from its networks out of concern for security and privacy. Big Blue realizes the move to enable workers to bring their own devices to work offers both benefits and challenges.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Dell's latest earnings highlighted the company's need for its own tablet to answer the iPad. While Dell has a "full complement" of devices planned, the company, like many other PC vendors, is waiting on Microsoft to launch Windows 8 later this year.
Lenovo will soon overtake longtime PC sales leader HP, according to several analyst reports released this week. Experts are pointing to its diverse product strategy, success in China and lower-margin PCs.
Awareness of products and services in the market remains a major hurdle to harnessing the power of big data.
Now's the time to upgrade your Windows Phone operating system to version 7.5 if you want to access Marketplace for applications.
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