Monthly Archives: August 2014
Bing Maps Makes It Harder to Get Lost in Japan
Bing Maps users who visit the island nation of Japan now have a new navigational aid.The company has bulked up its mass transit features...
Cray Packs CS-Storm Supercomputer with GPU Accelerators
Cray is unveiling a powerful new cluster supercomputer packed with GPU accelerators and offering a peak performance of more than 11 teraflops per node...
Red Hat Improves Hybrid Cloud Management, OpenStack Platforms
While much of the virtualization market's attention this week is focused on the VMworld event taking place in San Francisco, Linux vendor Red Hat...
Microsoft Enhances Security of Azure-Based SQL Databases
Enterprises have one less reason to be concerned about running their SQL databases on the Azure cloud computing platform, according to Microsoft.The Redmond, Wash.-based...
Daily Tech Briefing: August 26, 2014
Apple has announced that iPhone 5 owners who have been experiencing problems with the battery life on their devices could now be eligible for...
Windows 9 Will Gain From Microsoft’s Windows 7 Experience
Windows 9 Will Gain from Microsoft's Windows 7 Experience
by Don Reisinger
Back to the Future Is Always the Best Course of Action
Microsoft learned a valuable...
HP, Avaya Partner on Cloud-Based UC
Avaya and Hewlett-Packard are partnering to deliver a portfolio of services around unified communications, contact centers and infrastructure modernization to enterprises.Officials with Avaya and...
LinuxCon Showcases Advances in Linux, Open Source
LinuxCon Showcases Advances in Linux, Open Source
By Sean Michael Kerner
Chicago Hosts LinuxCon
LinuxCon North America was hosted in Chicago for the first time. The 2013...
Notebook Market Improves After Seven Quarters of Decline
The global notebook PC market improved in the second quarter of 2014 after seven consecutive quarters of shipment declines, according to results from the...
Banks, Health Care Companies at Risk for Email Hacking
Online retailers, or e-tailers, are excelling in email security, with online-only pioneers such as Netflix and Newegg leading the pack, whereas the majority of...