Monthly Archives: August 2011
VMworld 2011 Won’t Lack for News
As has been the case for the last half-dozen years, VMworld-the 2011 version of which opens Aug. 29 and continues through Sept. 1 at...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Offered Stock Incentives to Stay Until 2021
Freshly minted Apple CEO Tim Cook now has added incentive to stay with the company for the next decade, according to a new filing...
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache
On Aug. 22, AWS announced the public beta launch of Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate...
Windows Phone Rumors, Windows 8, ITC Hearings Marked Microsoft Week
As with much of this crazy August, Microsoft's week was dominated less by the company's own news, and much more by seismic shifts among...
Jobs Resignation, Google’s Motorola Buy, HP Shift: Tech’s Crazy August
August is typically regarded as one of the slower months, at least when it comes to tech news.But this August? Not so much.It started...
Windows 8 on a Quad-Core Tablet for BUILD Attendees: Rumor
Microsoft could offer attendees of September's BUILD conference a quad-core tablet running Windows 8, speculate a number of reports emerging online.Those reports have their...
Zeus Malware, Web Privacy, Mobile Security Lead Week’s Security News
Security researchers identified new malware variants that had taken on features from Zeus to turn ordinary run-of-the-mill malware into sophisticated worms with back fraud...
Confident Technologies Adds Image-Based KillSwitch’ Log-Ins to Foil Hackers
Confident Technologies claimed its latest authentication technology can prevent hacking attempts while they are happening.The new product, Confident KillSwitch, identifies and protects against "brute...
Facebook Cedes Daily Deals to Groupon, LivingSocial
Facebook said it has shuttered its local daily deals service, a 4-month-old effort to challenge Groupon and LivingSocial in the burgeoning but markedly copycat-filled...
Cisco Systems to Launch New Virtual Networking at VMworld
Cisco Systems, slogging through a relatively tough time in its 20-year history, is putting its troubles aside and focusing on launching a flock of...