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Microsoft: Azure Emerges as a Research as a Service Platform
Microsoft officials are seeing more researchers, who are trying to push the boundaries of scientific discovery but often come to the realization that there...
ISO Approves Ada 2012 Programming Language Standard
Though somewhat long-in-the-tooth and seemingly past its prime for some uses, the Ada programming language has reached a new milestone as the International Organization...
FCC Green Lights AT&T Request to Build LTE on WCS Spectrum
AT&T's efforts to grow out its 4G LTE network is getting a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which is giving the wireless carrier...
IBM to Buy StoredIQ for Big Data Portfolio
IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire StoredIQ, a provider of solutions for handling unstructured enterprise data.Financial terms of the deal to...
SDN Revenues to Hit $3.7 Billion by 2016: IDC
Software-defined networking is having an increasing impact in the networking industry, as enterprise interest grows and vendors big and small continue to roll out...
Windows 8 Launches Around the World
Windows 8 Launches Around the World
In October, the world met Windows 8. The vibrant, reimagined new version of Microsoft's Windows operating system is off...
Intermec, Ahead of Holiday Returns, Backs Hardware as a Service
A new Intermec-commissioned study focuses on what few of us require extra proof to believe: With the holidays come added stress and an increased...
The Shift to Touch-Centric Mobile Computing
The Shift to Touch-Centric Mobile Computing
Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to the Windows operating system in more than a decade, takes its user-interface...
Samsung Eclipses Apple, Nokia in Mobile Phone Shipments: IHS
Technology giant Samsung is set to seize the mobile handset market’s top rank this year, ending the 14-year reign of rival manufacturer Nokia, according...
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was the most-searched-for term both in the United States and worldwide. After making headlines for decades for her hit records, sold-out...