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Nirvanix, Intel Partner on SMB Cloud Storage
Cloud storage services specialist Nirvanix announced that its cloud-based storage offering will be available in the Intel AppUp SMB Service, a subscription-based service built...
Google Glass Taken for New York Subway Ride by Sergey Brin
Google co-founder Sergey Brin took a pair of Google Glasses for a ride on a New York subway train Jan. 21, and the appearance...
Microsoft Joins Efforts to Take Dell Private: Reports
Microsoft reportedly is joining the effort to buy Dell and take the company private, a move designed to help jump-start the struggling PC maker's...
BYOD Rapidly Going Global, Good Technology Study Finds
Many organizations are expanding their support for the bring-your-own device (BYOD) phenomenon beyond the United States to their operations overseas, according to an annual...
AMD Still Battered by PC Biz, But Confident in Turnaround Plan
Advanced Micro Devices officials reported another difficult financial quarter for the chip maker, which again was battered by slowing sales of PCs worldwide.AMD officials...
DDoS Attackers, Network Defense Firms Record Banner Year
In the last quarter of 2012, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks increased in quantity, bandwidth and duration, with seven attacks topping bandwidths of 50G bps,...
IBM Q4 2012 Profits Up 6 Percent on Software, Hardware
IBM announced fourth-quarter 2012 net income of $5.8 billion compared with $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 6 percent.Big...
Amazon’s In-App Purchasing Available to PC, Mac, Web-Based Customers
Amazon is making it easier for software developers to sell extra features and services to consumers through their software apps by tying the transactions...
Google Surpasses $50 Billion Fiscal Year Revenue Level
It was surely a matter of time, but Google reported Jan. 22 that it has surpassed the $50 billion-per-year mark in its 17th year...
Microsoft’s Surface Pro Windows 8 Tablet Goes on Sale Feb. 9
Surface Pro, Microsoft's Intel Core i5-powered slate that runs Windows 8 Pro, will go on sale on Saturday, Feb. 9, in the United States...