Monthly Archives: September 2013
Smartphone Owners Spend Time With Social Networking, Email Apps
The combined total minutes spent on activities requiring data connectivity on smartphones now far outpaces talking on these devices, according to the Smartphones: Consumer...
NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Launched in 1977, Continues Explorations
When NASA's Voyager 1 space probe launched Sept. 5, 1977, its mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn and help scientists learn more about...
Why VMware Is Glad to See iOS 7–for Enterprise Reasons
Apple released version 7 of its iOS mobile operating system on Sept. 18, and while the first conversations in this case are naturally about...
BlackBerry Founder Lazaridis Considers Buying Back His Brand: Report
BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis, who gave up his co-CEO position in January 2012 and in March 2013 stepped down from the BlackBerry board, is...
Ellison Touts Pure Oracle Red Hardware, Software Stack at OpenWorld
Buoyed by wins in the America’s Cup, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison opened this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference by outlining an enterprise technology world full...
IBM to Invest $17M in Colombian Cloud Data Center
IBM plans to invest $17 million in a new cloud data center located in Bogota, Colombia. This is the 25th cloud center IBM has...
Fedora Linux Turns 10: What’s Next?
Ten years ago, Red Hat changed its business model, ending its Red Hat Linux product and launching the Fedora Core community Linux distribution in...
Cisco to Unveil Networking for Internet of Things Sept. 24
Cisco Systems executives on Sept. 24 will unveil a networking system they say will underpin the infrastructure for the upcoming wave of the Internet...
Mozilla Resets for Firefox 25 and 26
Providing a preview of what's to come, Mozilla developers are now out with development versions of the next two releases of the open-source Firefox...
BlackBerry Signs $4.7 Billion Letter of Intent With Watsa’s Fairfax
BlackBerry, which in August announced it was open to being purchased, among other options, has received a $4.7 billion offer.The smartphone maker announced Sept....