Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some …
Industry agrees on vulnerability reporting format
Three years after its founding, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is starting to bear …
Apple topples Google as top brand, says report
Apple has topped Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released over the weekend …
VMware’s Cloud Foundry suffers second outage
VMware’s attempt to recover from an outage in its brand-new cloud computing service inadvertently caused a second outage the next …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Apple’s iTunes cloud music service might launch free
Apple has reportedly released pricing details of its planned iTunes music-streaming service. Reports state that the that music industry insiders …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
Red Hat becomes cloud service provider
Red Hat officials never seem to stop talking about cloud computing, but until recently all the company’s efforts were targeted at …
VMWare’s Cloud Foundry opens PaaS
VMware unveiled an open platform-as-a-service offering on Tuesday that supports multiple programming frameworks including Spring for Java, Ruby on Rails …
Google brings more to Android market
Google has added the ability for developers to sell digital content from inside applications on Android Market. The aim with …
EBay to acquire GSI Commerce
EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and …
Teradata trumpets business analytics at first regional conference
By Dave Reeder “We start this as a journey. This is our first conference in Dubai – it won’t be …
Stepping out of the shadow into the cloud
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took a step out of Mark Hurd’s shadow yesterday, unveiling a new cloud computing platform that …
VMware buys WaveMaker, aims to ease app development
VMware said yesterday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications. WaveMaker …
Intel plots ‘client-aware’ cloud services
Intel wants the cloud to be a bit smarter. The company is developing technologies that would allow applications and services …
Android tablets gain traction with developers
Although Apple’s iPad remains number one in the hearts of tablet application developers, Google Android tablets are increasingly piquing programmers’ …
BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation
BMC Software has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud …
Advice to an SP
He sums it up like this: “Content is important for people and people are important for service providers. Content excites …
Cloud Concept partners for Google Apps
Cloud Concept has announced that it has become an authorised reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration …
Unified Communications in the cloud
Unified communications (UC) as we know it today is flawed. The initial investment is simply too high for the return, …