Monthly Archives: September 2013
Google Chrome Browser to End Support for Old Netscape-Era Plug-Ins
Google Chrome will no longer work with a series of older, formerly popular Netscape-era Web browser plug-ins starting in January 2014, as the company...
Microsoft Surface 2 Tablets: Faster With Longer Battery Life
Microsoft Surface 2 Tablets: Faster With Longer Battery Life
by Michelle Maisto
Meet the Microsoft Surface 2
The Surface 2 is, in every regard, the lighter-weight of...
Oracle Refreshes Human Resources Cloud App Set
SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle, facing constant pressure from popular enterprise cloud-service application providers such as Workday and Salesforce, announced Sept. 24 that it has refreshed its...
SUSE Cloud 2.0 Improves OpenStack Deployments
Linux vendor SUSE is releasing its latest open-source OpenStack cloud platform-based product today, SUSE Cloud 2.0.The SUSE Cloud 2.0 release comes just over a...
Microsoft Intros 200GB SkyDrive Plan Ahead of Windows 8.1, Surface 2
Microsoft launched a new SkyDrive plan weeks ahead of the impending releases of Windows 8.1 and Surface 2 tablets.The cloud storage service now provides...
Apple Updates iMacs With Fourth-Generation Intel Haswell Processors
Apple, without fanfare, announced an update to its line of iMac desktop computers Sept. 24, 11 months and a day after introducing its last...
iPhone 5S Outselling the iPhone 5C: 10 Reasons Why
iPhone 5S Outselling the iPhone 5C: 10 Reasons Why
By Don Reisinger
Apple Customers Don’t Want to Buy a Second-Class Product
If Apple has learned anything over...
Zoom Raises $6.5 Million for Cloud Collaboration
Zoom Video Communications is the latest cloud-based collaboration company to raise more funding, announcing another $6.5 million that officials say will be used to...
Big Data Adoption, Investment Plans Grow: Gartner
Of the nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of organizations investing or planning to invest in big data technology in 2013, 30 percent have already invested...
BlackBerry’s Best Survival Plan Is as Private Business Phone Maker
It’s hard to believe that it was only six months ago when BlackBerry started selling the new Z10 touch-screen phone in the United States,...