Monthly Archives: October 2014
Why It’s Still Not a Great Idea for HP and EMC to Merge
So Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symantec are going the ways of Xerox, IBM and other large IT companies. They soon will be trying to becoming...
Microsoft’s Nadella Backtracks After Women’s Pay Remarks Spark Ire
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set off a firestorm of criticism Thursday at the Grace Hopper Conference, a Phoenix event focused on women in computing,...
Pica8, Big Switch Look to Drive SDN on Bare-Metal Switches
Pica8 kicked off a busy week in the increasingly competitive software-defined networking space, making moves that officials say will help fuel the adoption of...
Couchbase Launches v3.0 of Its NoSQL Database
NoQSL database provider Couchbase has unveiled a 3.0 version of its Couchbase Server, a release the CEO says is its most significant to date.Couchbase...
Add Kmart to the List of POS Data Breach Victims
National retailer Kmart, a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corp., publicly confirmed on Oct. 10 that it had been breached by a form of point-of-sale...
Snapchat Blames 3rd-Party Apps After Hack Exposes User Photos
Thousands of Snapchat images that users thought were erased have now been publicly posted in an attack that is being publicly referred to as...
Dynatrace Launches Synthetic Monitoring Engine
ORLANDO, Fla.—Dynatrace, formerly known as Compuware APM, a provider of application performance management (APM) solutions, this week announced a new release of Dynatrace Synthetic...
Microsoft Unifies the Skype Desktop Client Experience
Apart from some minor OS-specific differences, Skype users will be hard-pressed to tell the new Mac and Windows versions of the software apart, according...
Data Breach Fears, Unreliable WiFi Hold Back U.K. SMBs
By Michael MooreA strong and reliable WiFi connection has emerged as the most critical of all business factors for small and midsize companies, according...
Lenovo Unveils Three Feature-Filled Yoga Tablet Models
Lenovo has unveiled three new Yoga tablet models, adding improvements and new features while for the first time including Windows versions of one of...