Monthly Archives: January 2014
Acer, Asus Eyeing Wearable Devices in 2014: Reports
Acer and Asus reportedly are getting ready to jump into the growing wearable computing market later this year.Acer officials have been talking about getting...
Satya Nadella to Be Named Microsoft CEO: Report
Satya Nadella will soon be the third CEO to lead Microsoft, Bloomberg reported Jan. 31, citing people with knowledge of a process that has...
FreeBSD Open-Source OS Comes to the PC-BSD Desktop
FreeBSD Open-Source OS Comes to the PC-BSD Desktop
By Sean Michael Kerner
KDE 4.10 Is the Default Desktop
PC-BSD's installation media includes the open-source KDE 4.10 desktop...
IBM Ships More Than 10,000 PureSystems Units
IBM announced that it has shipped more than 10,000 PureSystems units since Big Blue introduced the machines in 2012.As organizations look to consolidate their...
Servergy, Rex Show Off Power-Efficient Servers at Open Compute Summit
Much of the news coming out of the Open Compute Summit this week revolved around such high-profile names as Facebook, ARM, Advanced Micro Devices,...
IBM Teams With Universities On Big Data, Analytics Research
IBM and Texas A&M University System announced a broad research collaboration to drive computational sciences research through big data and analytics.Big Blue said the...
Dell Launches Pocket-Size Cloud Connect Device
Dell's much-anticipated Project Ophelia—the Android-based pocket-sized device that can turn any display into a cloud-based computer—is now on the market.The newly privatized company announced...
Target Hack Blamed on Stolen Credentials: Who’s at Fault?
Details continue to emerge about the root cause of the security breach at U.S. retailer Target that exposed the personal information of 70 million...
Google Rides Ads, Apps to $17 Billion Revenue Quarter
Google, with all of its acquisition moves, robot R&D, moonshot ideas and edgy Earthbound projects, above all knows how to run a successful business.This...
Google to Expand Chrome Apps for Mobile by Using Apache Cordova
Google is continuing to drive the development of its Chrome Apps concept by introducing the first beta preview tools to help developers build Chrome...