As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it’s getting harder …
NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices
NetApp this week announced to customers that beginning Feb. 6, it will be raising the price of hard disk drives …
Intel bets big on ultrabooks
Intel will get a strong indication at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks …
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centres
Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical …
Extreme Networks prepares to ship ‘world’s fastest Ethernet switch’
Extreme Networks’ latest switch, the BlackDiamond X8, billed as the “fastest Ethernet switch in the world”, went on general release …
Google Chrome finally gets malware download protection
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently …
Symantec confirms source cod leak in enterprise security products
Symantec confirmed, just before the start of the Middle East weekend, that source code used in two of its older …
IBM to acquire Green Hat
IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, …
US lawmakers push for Huawei investigation
The U.S. Department of State should investigate Huawei Technologies’ reported sale of mobile phone tracking equipment to an Iranian mobile …
Google downgrades Chrome ranking after paid-links controversy
Google penalised its own browser’s search rankings Tuesday over a marketing campaign that went bad, the company confirmed. “We’ve investigated …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
Android market tops 400,000 apps
Google’s Android Market now hosts more than 400,000 active applications from about 100,000 publishers, with the majority of apps available …
China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns
After winning the approval of regulators in Europe, Australia, and Japan, Western Digital may have hit a snag in its …
Facebook brings back Hacker Cup
In an effort to challenge programmers worldwide, Facebook has brought back its Hacker Cup contest for a third round, the …