Monthly Archives: February 2013
Hardware, Software Failures Leading Cause of SMB Downtime
Hardware failures alone comprise more than one-half of disasters for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), according to backup and recovery specialist Quorum’s Disaster Recovery...
Facebook Hit By Malware Exploit, But No User Data Affected
Facebook revealed Feb. 15 in a blog post that it was hit by a sophisticated hacker attack last month but that no user data...
QPID Launches NLP Intelligence Platform for EHRs
QPID, a health care IT software company spun off from Partners HealthCare in Boston, has launched with an intelligence engine of the same name...
iPad Office No Show a $2.5B Missed Opportunity for Microsoft: Analyst
How much is Microsoft passing up by not releasing a version of Office for Apple iOS?Forbes reported that according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam...
Intel Changes Direction on Next-Generation Itanium Platform
Intel officials are changing some of the goals they have for the next generation of their high-end Itanium platform, a move brought on by...
HTC Teasing M7 Smartphone’s Feb. 19 Release
HTC is doing what it can to build intrigue around the smartphone—popularly referred by all but HTC by its code name, M7—that it's scheduled...
Dealing With the Half Life of Data Value
Dealing With the Half Life of Data Value
Businesses need to move fast. As soon as data enters an organization, its half life begins. Data...
Samsung Intros Rex Feature Phones for ‘Fastest-Growing Markets’
Samsung has taken on Apple and come to dominate the high-end smartphone market. Now, it's more aggressively going after classic Nokia territory, with the...
Here’s SkyDrive’s Web Interface With a Windows 8 Look
Here's SkyDrive's Web Interface With a Windows 8 Look
SkyDrive can be accessed through a nice Web interface that, like many of Microsoft's online properties...
Curiosity Rover’s Self Portrait
Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait
This rectangular version of Curiosity combines dozens of exposures that the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) has taken at the...