Monthly Archives: January 2014
Chrome Browser 33, Now in Beta, Includes Many New Developer Features
Google's Chrome Web browser stable Version 32 was just released to users last week, which means that the Chrome beta Version 33 is now...
DNS Poisoning Suspected Cause of Huge Internet Outage in China
Internet users in China were affected by a large-scale outage over an eight-hour period on Jan. 21 that has been linked to an unspecified...
Microsoft to Switch On Zero-Carbon Data Center in Wyoming
Microsoft is finishing up its Data Plant research project in Cheyenne, Wyo. Part data center and part power plant, the pilot program will leverage...
IBM Faces Risky Shift to Cloud Computing as Hardware Business Declines
IBM is the most recent example of a company trying shift to the cloud while watching its hardware revenues fall off the cliff.In the...
Google Reminds Online Tax Return Filers to Protect Their Identities
Just in time for tax time, Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have some important hints for online identity safety as tax...
Kinect Gamifies Medical Recoveries
Soon after its release, intrepid hackers expanded on Kinect's capabilities beyond the realm of video games. Now, health care technologists are using Microsoft's sensor...
T-Mobile’s Latest Brilliant Wireless Move Is in Banking
AT&T has shrugged off the subscribers it has lost to T-Mobile, and presumably others, as mostly "low-revenue" 2G accounts, whose departure has conveniently freed...
Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
Just a little more than two months after shipping Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft this week released the final version of Visual Studio 2013 Update...
AMD Launches 16-, 12-Core Opteron Server Chips
Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out two new Opteron server chips that offer 12 and 16 cores and are aimed at virtualized workloads in...
VMware Makes $1.54B Bet on AirWatch for Mobile Management
Virtualization software market leader VMware became a bona fide data mobility company Jan. 22 by acquiring enterprise mobile management and security provider AirWatch for...