More than three years after its original filing, Apple has finally been granted an iPhone patent that could potentially see …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
CFOs lack faith in CIOs, survey shows
Increasingly, it’s the chief financial officer (CFO) who has direct oversight of the IT department and IT-related spending, but it …
Windows OS going strong, Windows IE on the decline: Forrester
A new study of corporate operating system and browser trends by Forrester Research reveals both good news and bad news …
Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance
IBM’s Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyse up to 10 petabytes of data “in …
HP integrates VMware API, offers PC backup service
HP today announced it has qualified its entry-level P2000 disk storage array with VMware’s API for Array Integration, which will …
Oracle to buy FatWire Software
Oracle said yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire FatWire Software, a privately-held company that specialises in …
Microsoft launching Kinect enabled adverts
In their constant bid to try and earn more advertising dollars for Xbox Live, Microsoft is introducing Kinect-enabled advertisements. According …
Epson expands photo printing app for iOS devices
Epson has expanded its photo-printing app for iOS devices, making it possible to publish documents and web pages directly from …
Long path ahead
In an interview, Brocade CEO Michael Klayko said Fibre Channel is here to stay but the company has no “religion” …
Huawei unveils latest tablet running Android 3.2
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei unveiled a 7-inch tablet, called the MediaPad, running version 3.2 of Google’s Android mobile OS …
Eight Skype executives depart post Microsoft buy out
Eight Skype executives have departed the company following Microsoft’s $8.5 billion buyout in May, a Skype spokeswoman confirmed on Monday. …
Adobe launches tools for creating mobile apps
Adobe has released an update to its Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software to enable developers to build applications …
SGI to speed-up supercomputers by 500 times using Intel chips
Silicon Graphics International hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed …