Monthly Archives: July 2013
HTC One Mini Follows Samsung’s Lead
HTC introduced the HTC One Mini July 18, borrowing from the playbook of market leader Samsung, which in May introduced a tinier version of...
AMD Optimistic About Future Despite Tough Q2
Advanced Micro Devices executives, despite a second quarter that saw revenues fall and a net loss of $74 million, are upbeat about the second...
Google Improves App Engine for Large-Scale App Creation
Google has again updated its Google App Engine development environment, adding several new features that improve the creation and maturation of large-scale applications.The new...
Obsolete Java a Security Threat on Corporate Desktops, Says Bit9
Java is the application development language of the Internet. It is everywhere on the Web. Although it is regularly updated, it has always contained...
Microsoft Misses Q4 Estimates, Takes $900M Charge on Surface RTs
Citing a decline in the PC market, Microsoft missed analyst estimates of its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 earnings, announced July 18.Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of...
Quality Data Takes More Than a Quick Technology Fix
You are embarrassed to discover your company is sending mail to a former customer now deceased. You have to hire a swivel chair data...
Bill Gates Says We’re Living in a ‘Golden Age of Computer Science’
New advances in software and increasingly more powerful hardware are paving the way for a computing renaissance, of sorts, according to Microsoft's influential co-founder...
Google Makes $3B Profit, but It’s Not Enough for the Street
Logic would dictate that Google, which posted a quarterly profit of $3.23 billion July 18 in its second-quarter 2013 earnings report, ought to be...
Egnyte Adds Google Drive to Its Storage Package
Egnyte, which specializes in optimizing cloud storage to work with local storage, on July 17 announced that the newest version of its software package...
Apigee Launches API Monetization Platform
Apigee, which refers to itself as the API company, has launched a new platform to help enterprises monetize their APIs, the Apigee Enterprise -...