Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent …
Apple, Microsoft spar over fees for SkyDrive iOS app
Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has …
Windows 8 tablets not expected to be major player until 2016
The worldwide tablet market is exploding with demand as people jettison laptops for smaller, touch-based devices. But even as tablets …
HP reveals new information optimisation solutions
HP today announced new and enhanced information optimisation solutions that help enterprises manage, understand and act upon the variety, velocity …
Google buys parcel storage service BufferBox
Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that …
Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …
Windows 8’s early uptake trumps Vista’s, not Win 7
Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake, but it’s easily topping the low …
Gartner: Platform as a service market to see sharp growth
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million …
On it’s 5th anniversary, Android solidifies its OS dominance
Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number …
Apple’s Tim Cook named most powerful person in wireless industry
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been named the most powerful person in wireless for 2012. FierceWireless has published its annual list of …
Cisco, Qualcomm collaborate to improve Wi-Fi services
Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are putting their considerable wireless weight behind a system to make it easier for retail stores …
Ballmer attacks Android, Apple, says Microsoft is best of both
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has branded Android ‘wild’ and Apple too ‘controlled’. During a recent conversation with LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid …
Google gives cloud database performance boost
Google’s Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running …
Microsoft Surface web benchmarks reveal poor performance
Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: …
iPad Mini
It’s been two and a half years since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s idea of what a tablet should be — the …
Apple loses tablet market share to Android
Apple has seen its tablet market share decline during the third quarter of the year to Google Android rivals. The iPad maker has seen …
Apple to sell 102m iPads, 194m iPhones in 2013: analyst
Apple will sell 101.6 million iPads and 193.9 million iPhones in 2013, according to an analyst. In contrast to Apple, …
Major vendors announce software support for 64-bit ARM
Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is …
Settling in with Windows 8
You’ve successfully installed Windows 8. You’re staring at the Start screen, in all its flat-tiled glory, and it all seems completely …
Google debuts Nexus 10 tablet, Nexus 4 smartphone
Google on Monday announced a new 10-inch Nexus tablet and 4.7-inch Nexus smartphone with the latest Android 4.2 operating system, …