eWEEK Staff

U.S. Government Wraps Up International Cyber-Exercises

Today’s topics include cyber-exercises at the U.S. Department of Defense, speculation over the future of Google Glass, the launch of the Wireless IoT Forum and a new minicomputer from the BBC. The U.S. Department of Defense wrapped up a 20-day series of cyber-exercises incorporating more than 100 federal and state organizations as well as private […]

SEC Filing Offers New Insight on Plans for HP After Split

Today’s topics include new details on the HP split, connections between separate Google and Cisco lawsuits, the recent availability of two new versions of Mozilla’s Web browsers and a major move from Alcatel-Lucent. Hewlett-Packard in its Form 10 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission early this month gives greater depth to what Hewlett-Packard Enterprise […]

California Law Expected to Deter Smartphone Thefts

Today’s topics include the early impact of California’s kill-switch law, facial recognition and fingerprint software testing from MasterCard, the launch of Oracle Commerce Cloud and Renee James stepping down at Intel. Smartphone thefts in California are expected to continue a downward trend now that the state’s new “kill-switch” law went into effect on July 1. […]

Apple Must Pay Ebook Buyers After Losing Antitrust Case Appeal

Today’s topics include Apple having to pay hundreds of millions in fines, a new add-on from Microsoft, bold claims from a new study on Google and Windows 10 finally integrating with Cortana. Apple must pay consumers a total of $450 million in damages after the company lost an appeal of a 2013 court decision, which […]

Microsoft Visual Studio RTM Ready for Download July 20

Today’s topics include the next major release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2015, new smartphone options for AT&T’s prepaid, no-contract GoPhone, details on how Ikea patched the recent Shellshock vulnerability and the debut of a new working group for defining an Open API for cloud security. Microsoft announced that developers can start downloading the next major […]

SAP Testing Apple Watch Apps for Enterprise Users

Today’s topics include an effort to create apps that that allow SAP applications to transfer data to the Apple Watch, word of a new project from NASA and Microsoft, an innovative health-tracking band from Google and two new storage systems from Lenovo. Enterprise workers who use SAP applications in their jobs could one day be […]

Microsoft Releases Office Apps for Android Mobile Devices

Today’s topics include the availability of Microsoft Office for Android, the removal of a Google audio listening component from Chromium, Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless join forces to challenge enterprise networking giants, and new applications from HP for its Sprout immersive computing system. Starting today, both Android tablet and mobile phone users can download the […]

Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Status Notifications Go Mobile

Today’s topics include push notifications for the Office 365 Admin app, the virtualization of Oracle Communications products, security issues with fitness monitors and why ARM executives went to this year’s Red Hat Summit. Service interruptions are unavoidable consequences of trusting enterprise applications to a third-party cloud provider. Microsoft is working on ways of giving IT […]

Oracle Sets Sights on Amazon With New PaaS Cloud Offerings

Today’s topics include Oracle’s latest effort to become the top platform-as-a-service provider, NetApp’s new high-end flash storage arrays, new IoT offerings from Freescale Semiconductor and how Taylor Swift helped change Apple’s plans for launching its new streaming music service. Oracle wants to be the undisputed leader in the platform-as-a-service business. To achieve that goal, the […]

Loopholes Appear in Microsoft’s Windows 10 Upgrade Policy

Today’s topics include the extent that Windows 10 will be free, the new Open Container Project, backed by the Linux foundation, an expansion from Pica8 and the airline industry’s thoughts on the Internet of things. Microsoft caused a stir earlier this year when it said it was breaking from tradition and making Windows 10 available […]