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Just one month after Microsoft made the surprising announcement of its Surface Pro 3, users all over the world can now look forward to the release of Intel Core i3 and Core i7 versions in August, according to the Head of Microsoft Surface Panos Panay. So far, only the mid-range Core i5 has been available […]

On June 22, the Reuters website was briefly impacted by an attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army. The SEA is a Syrian activist group that is known to be loosely associated with the government of Bashar al-Assad, and has attacked other media outlets in the past to get its messages out. The SEA utilized […]

Google and Microsoft will be joining Apple in adding a “kill switch” feature into their Mobile device software. The kill switch will erase all personal information on a phone and make it unusable in an effort to deter smartphone thefts. Mobile device makers have come under pressure to add a kill switch features because the […]

Amazon’s Fire smartphone, introduced on June, 18, will likely be most popular with Amazon customers who want to use the device’s features to make it easier to order products from online retail giant, according to mobile industry analysts. Jan Dawson, principal analyst with Jackdaw Research, explained that Amazon’s mobile market strategy isn’t to compete with […]

Amazon has introduced its first smartphone – the Fire. It features a 4.7-inch In-Plane Switching LCD HD display, a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with unlimited photo storage in the Amazon cloud, 2GB of RAM and many other features. One unexpected feature CEO Jeff Bezos debuted was FireFly, which uses sensors to enable users to identify things […]

Hewlett-Packard has entered into a partnership with Workday Human Capital Management applications, which is a mobile-enabled system delivered through a cloud service, to help organizations make faster decisions, get better operational visibility, prepare for future talent shifts and build effective teams. HP has now launched HP Enterprise Applications Services for Workday, with the goal of […]

AT&T has acknowledged that in April, three employees of one of its vendors hacked into the AT&T network and gained access to customer records, including call records and in some instances, Social Security numbers. This hack was part of a larger effort to unlock older phones for use on other networks. While the company hasn’t […]

Samsung is touting its newly introduced Galaxy Tab S tablet as a flagship product, featuring a new Super AMOLED screen with roughly 4 million pixels – which is more than the iPad Air. Samsung also says that the construction of the display makes it more vibrant than an LCD, in addition to cutting down on […]

IBM is opening new SoftLayer-based cloud data centers specifically for federal government workloads. They will feature IBM’s SoftLayer infrastructure, which has been designed to provide greater control and security of data, which is a high priority for federal government data centers. Also, IBM will be opening the market for the SoftLayer ecosystem, allowing business partners […]

Oracle has unveiled its new Oracle 12c Database In-Memory Option and in doing so has caught up with competitor SAP’s HANA 3-year-old in-memory database. The In-Memory Option is already optimized so it can be added directly into Oracle databases, saving IT managers from having to rewrite or re-install applications, retrain administrators or change any policies. […]