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At a recent event, IBM executives unveiled “Elastic Storage,” new technology designed to address the needs of businesses and service providers that are overwhelmed by the growth of data being generated through both traditional means, and newer venues like social media, mobile and video. The goal of Elastic Storage is to create a way for […]

Microsoft has extended its cloud-based business intelligence platform for Office 365—Power BI—with a new update designed to bring forecasting capabilities to the software. Power BI is Microsoft’s self-service BI offering, which allows users to analyze data using Excel. The company announced that the new Power BI forecasting tools for the Power View component will enable […]

In the wake of recent news reports stating that the Federal Communications Commission may propose new rules that many Web users fear will allow ISPs to discriminate Internet companies, internet giants Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Ebay, Twitter and Microsoft, along with 143 other internet-based companies, have signed a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler expressing their […]

Facebook started the Open Compute Project in 2011, which now has Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, Mellanox Technologies and Rackspace as members. While the months-old Open Compute Lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio may not look like much now, Paul Rad, director of the lab and vice president of research at Rackspace, […]

An executive at Symantec, the largest seller of endpoint-antivirus software, recently told The Wall Street Journal that antivirus technology “is dead” as a reliable defense against malware. While some media outlets have claimed that this official was repudiating the company’s antivirus technology, the company later said that the statement was meant as an acknowledgment that […]

Juniper Networks and Nokia Solutions and Networks announced they are bundling network virtualization and cloud offerings to create a solution aimed at mobile operators. Nokia will be bringing its Liquid Core technology to the table, while Juniper will be leveraging its MetaFabric data center architecture. Combining these offerings will give mobile operators a cloud-based infrastructure […]

An Android smartphone owner filed a lawsuit filed on May 1 against Google in federal court in San Jose, California. The suit is over Google’s alleged policies that require smartphone makers to load less-popular Google apps on devices if they want to pre-load more popular Google apps like YouTube on devices that run Android. The […]

While Microsoft officials said that they would no longer support Windows XP, the company has released an emergency out-of-band update for a zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776, which has been affecting Internet Explorer. The flaw impacts versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Web browser with a remote code execution vulnerability. Dustin […]

Sprint took the wraps off an improved version of the just-released HTC One M8. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse—along with HTC CEO Peter Chou, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Harman Kardon CEO Dinesh Paliwal—discussed key features of the HTC One M8-Harman Kardon edition of the new smartphone at a press event in New York. Sprint will […]

Mozilla has officially launched Firefox 29, which is the first major overhaul of the open-source browser’s user interface since Firefox 4 came out in March 2011. The Firefox overhaul was developed under the code name “Australis” and has been in beta development since March 20. Jonathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox at Mozilla, told eWEEK […]