Monthly Archives: April 2014
Apple Reimbursing Customers for Unapproved In-App Purchases
Apple has begun the process of refunding customers for unapproved in-app purchases, following its $32.5 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).Apple sent...
Ineda Intros Dhanush CPU Family for Wearable Devices
Ineda Systems officials are unveiling the company's low-power chip architecture specifically designed for wearable devices and the Internet of things.The company, based in India...
Consumers Like Using Text Messages to Solve Customer Service Issues
The majority of U.S. consumers would be likely to text with a live customer support agent, and the same percentage would prefer texting instead...
Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Spending Falls in 2013
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled $33.8 billion in 2013, an 11.5 percent decline from 2012, according a report from IT research firm Gartner.Applied...
IBM Invigorates 50-Year-Old Mainframe With New Mobile, Hadoop Support
NEW YORK--IBM is offering new capabilities on its big iron platform that signal that the systems will be here for the foreseeable future and...
Business Technology Spending to Top $330 Billion by 2017
The business technology spending market will grow at 6.9 percent 5-year compound annual compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $236.6 billion in 2012 to...
IBM Brings New Cloud Offerings, Pricing to the Mainframe
NEW YORK–Celebrating 50 years of the mainframe, IBM on April 8 announced a series of new enterprise cloud offerings for its big iron platform...
Brendan Eich’s Departure Will Mar Mozilla but Not Stop Its Innovation
Brendan Eich was a key figure in the foundation of Mozilla, and his departure will be questioned and felt for a long time. Eich...
Windows XP Support Expiration Doesn’t Mean It’s Time to Panic
Last time we checked, nearly 30 percent of Windows users were still running XP. This was despite the dire warnings from Microsoft that security...
CryptoDefense Ransomware Flaw Leaves Behind Decryption Keys
Ransomware has become an increasingly popular way for cyber-criminals to turn infected computer systems into cash, and this year underground programmers are already churning...