Monthly Archives: June 2013
Intel Keeps Struggling in the Mobile Market: 10 Reasons Why
For decades Intel has been the main player in the computer processor market. The company's chips are widely viewed as the best in the...
Apple, Amazon, Walmart and the Art of the Killer Deal
Apple has been accused of price-fixing ebooks and working with major publishing houses to raise prices pushed down by Amazon.As the trial began in...
Google Glass Says ‘No’ to Adult Content
Google has banned adult-oriented, sexually explicit apps from being offered by developers for its Google Glass devices, just days before what appears to be...
NetTraveler Cyber-Spying Campaign Swiped Data for Years
A cyber-espionage operation has been linked to a hacking group based in China that may have been active for as long as a decade.The...
Dell, Oracle in New Partnership to Fill Product-Service Gaps
SAN JOSE, Calif.—A surprise "virtual visitor" showed up during the leadoff keynote at Dell's Enterprise Forum June 4: Mark Hurd, Oracle's co-president, appearing via...
TechEd 2013: Microsoft Backs Development Strategy Built Around Azure
NEW ORLEANS—"Do the work in the tools you know." That phrase from Eron Kelly, SQL general manager at Microsoft, summarized the company's TechEd conference...
Identity Theft Tops Security Concerns for Americans
The average American is less worried about threats to their physical security and livelihood than at any point during the last six years. But...
IBM Acquiring SoftLayer, Forming New Cloud Services Division
ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, a privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider, in a move aimed at making Big...
Google Making It Easier for Developers to Build Mobile Apps
Google is making it simpler for developers to build and sell their apps by essentially automating the back end of apps development so developers...
Salesforce Buys Marketing Toolmaker ExactTarget for $2.5B
Salesforce.com, continuing to add marketing and social networking tools for use by its Marketing Cloud and Social.com groups, revealed June 4 that it will...