Monthly Archives: June 2014
Price Wars: Parallels Between Airlines and the Public Cloud
In the last couple of months, the three largest cloud providers in terms of market share—Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft—each announced substantial price...
Russia to Replace Intel, AMD Server Chips With ARM SoCs
The Russian government reportedly is pushing a program that would rid government systems of x86 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, opting instead...
Microsoft Hails Supreme Court Cell Phone Warrant Ruling
Brad Smith, general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs for Microsoft, left little doubt on his company's stance regarding the...
After Exchange Online Outage, Microsoft Vows to Improve Procedures
More details are available about troubles with Exchange Online, Microsoft's cloud-based business email, calendar and contact management platform, which suffered an extended outage on...
Daily Tech Briefing: June 30, 2014
The new Skype app for Windows Phone 8.1 comes with Cortana, Microsoft's voice-enabled digital assistant. Lara Kingwell, a Skype product marketing manager, called Cortana...
ARM Server Chips Forcing Intel to Defend Market It’s Long Dominated
Intel executives in July 2013 announced that the giant chip maker planned to release a system-on-a-chip version of its upcoming 14-nanometer Xeon "Broadwell" server...
CE Week Highlights Show Consumer Is King of Everything
CE Week Highlights Show Consumer Is King of Everything
by Michelle Maisto
Hexoskin Wearable Body Metrics
At CE Week, Hexoskin announced that its Android app is now...
IBM Opening New SoftLayer Data Center in London
IBM announced that it will soon open a SoftLayer data center in London to serve European customers.The new data center will be the latest...
CoreOS Launches Managed Linux Operating System as a Service
The move toward a services-based approach for all IT is taking another step today with the launch of the CoreOS Managed Linux operating system...
Peppermint Five Linux Brings the Cloud to Linux Desktop
Peppermint Five Linux Brings the Cloud to Linux Desktop
By Sean Michael Kerner
Peppermint Five Provides a Lightweight Linux Desktop
The main Peppermint Five desktop leverages the...