China and India were the top two “victim” countries in the Asia Pacific, according to a recent Web threat report. …

Microsoft equips Visual Studio for Office app-building
Microsoft has released a collection of tools that will help Visual Studio 2012 users more easily write add-on applications for …

IBM: OpenStack will be central to future cloud strategy
Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be …

PC shipments will decrease in 2013, says IDC
Worldwide PC shipments dropped in 2012 on an annual basis for the first time in more than a decade and …

Oracle releases emergency fix for Java vulnerabilities
Oracle released emergency patches for Java on Monday to address two critical vulnerabilities, one of which is actively being exploited …

Microsoft pledges Europe Surface Pro by Q2
Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter, and it will be priced somewhere …

Windows 8 uptake slows again
Windows 8’s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net …

Experts slam ‘dangerously unprepared’ IT security managers
Companies with IT security strategies that focus mostly on complying with key standards are dangerously unprepared for emerging cyber threats, …

Customers see first BlackBerry Z10 software update
BlackBerry has started rolling out the first software update for its flagship Z10 smartphone. The Z10 running on the BlackBerry 10 operating system has …

Oracle ports DTrace to Oracle Linux
Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, …

HP halfway towards 27k layoff target, says Whitman
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left …

Malware-as-a-service market sees rise in services
Prices are falling and the number of services is increasing as developers in the online underground compete fiercely for criminals …

Samsung to launch Galaxy S4 in 6 models
Samsung’s imminent Galaxy S4 smartphone will launch in six different models. Samsung has announced that it will unveil the Galaxy S4 smartphone in less …

Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year, says Gartner
The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm …


