Monthly Archives: March 2014
Microsoft Office 2003 Support Ends Along With Windows XP
In two short weeks, Microsoft will end support for Windows XP, effectively marking the end of the popular desktop PC operating system. Although XP...
Windows Azure Will Be Renamed Microsoft Azure in April
Windows Azure, Microsoft's suite of cloud computing services, will soon float on without being bogged down by its sometimes divisive PC-era brand.The software giant...
Intel Buys Wearable Device Maker Basis
Intel is taking a significant step in its efforts to expand its presence in the nascent wearable device market with the acquisition of Basis...
Google Platform Live to Boost Price Pressure on All Big Cloud Players
Cloud computing is no longer all about a bunch of competitors trying to catch up with Amazon Web Services. Google—the one company most mentioned...
Facebook Pivots, Buys Virtual-Reality Headset Maker Oculus for $2B
Facebook on March 25 made a surprise pivot, moving into the virtual reality headset business by buying Oculus VR for about $1.9 billion in...
Daily Tech Briefing: March 25, 2014
Beta users have been testing Google Glass devices since April 2013, but public opinion regarding these new products remains mixed. In an effort to...
Why Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem Is Invested in Security
Enrique Salem served as the CEO of Symantec from 2002 until 2012, and in that decade, he learned a lot about what's important in...
Open-Source Apache CloudStack 4.3 Supports Microsoft Hyper-V
The Apache Software Foundation today announced the release of CloudStack 4.3, providing new features to users of the open-source cloud platform.The CloudStack 4.3 release...
Google Glass to Become More Fashionable With Luxottica Partnership
Google Glass could someday offer trendy frames from famous makers such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Vogue-Eyewear and Alain Mikli under a partnership unveiled with eyeglass...
HTC Introduces One M8 Smartphone, Available Today
With the One M8 HTC has done it again: created a beautiful, feature-rich phone that pushes at several envelopes. It even pulled off the...