Monthly Archives: March 2013
Google Chrome Browser Now Faster on Android, iOS Tablets, Smartphones
Google's Chrome browser just got some new speed, search and sharing updates in the latest versions released for Android and iOS users, bringing improved...
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with Verizon LTE Coming March 7
Samsung introduced a 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) version of its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and on March...
BlackBerry 10 with Enhanced Security Wins Hefty Order from Germany
HANNOVER, Germany — The new BlackBerry 10 smartphone, which has already been released in Europe, is the only wireless platform secure enough to meet...
Google Gets User ID Criticism from Web Evangelist Vint Cerf: Report
Google's almost two-year push to require users of its online services to reveal their real names has an unlikely critic: Vint Cerf, Google's chief...
Verizon Reports Illicit Images Scanned in Maryland Man’s Cloud Storage
Police charged a Maryland man on March 1 for allegedly possessing illicit images of children, following a tip from his cloud storage provider Verizon,...
Terracotta Updates BigMemory Data Management Package
Competition is getting fierce in the in-memory database business, with companies such as SAP, Oracle, ScaleOut, Birst, SAS, Terracotta and Sweden's Starcounter all coming...
IBM Cooks Up OpenStack Cloud Platform With Chef
LAS VEGAS – IBM's new OpenStack-based SmartCloud Orchestrator is a big win for Chef, the open-source systems integration and management framework.As part of its...
CeBIT: Four U.S. Companies Among 50 Finalists in Innovation Contest
HANNOVER, Germany—One of the much-anticipated events at the CeBIT show in Hannover is the presentation of the Code _n awards. Unfortunately, I've never actually...
The Cloud Is Making Unified IT Management a DCIM Imperative
The Cloud Is Making Unified IT Management a DCIM Imperative
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is evolving facilities management to include the data center's IT...
Microsoft Acquires Cloud Monitoring Startup MetricsHub
Windows Azure customers and developers now have a free tool to help them better gauge the performance of their cloud apps. Microsoft announced March...