While Google’s acquistion of Motorola Mobility is huge news, it draws the bigger question as to what it means for …
Amazon steps up service security for government agencies
Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services in an effort to attract more government …
HTC vs. Apple, the dispute continues
HTC has filed a lawsuit against Apple for allegedly infringing on three patents, the latest in the legal battle raging …
HP updates dependency mapping software
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has updated its dependency mapping software to help customers figure out which departments are using which systems and …
IE9 best at protecting against drive-by downloads: NSS Labs
Internet Explorer is better at defending against drive-by downloads than competitors’ browsers and the contest isn’t even close, according to …
Google buys Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion
Google has entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, …
New breed of champions
During the Reseller conference in June 2011, two presentations got me thinking. The first was from HP’s Hemayun on vendor-partner …
IBM declares the end of the PC era
Are we living in a “post-PC” world? Steve Jobs thinks so, and he often refers to the iPad as a …
Smartphones boom while mobile phone sales drops: Gartner
Mobile phone sales floundered during the second quarter, in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. But smartphone sales continued …
ESET announces special offer for business users
ESET Middle East, IT Security vendor, announced a special offer for organisations looking to secure their networks in the Middle …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …
Cloud use greatly outpaces understanding: NPD
Despite huge investments in advertising on TV and on billboards– particularly in airports– survey after survey shows that when it …
Intel gives Ultrabooks a $300M investment boost
Intel said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and …
Gartner evaluates maturity of 1900 technologies in special report
Gartner’s 2011 Hype Cycle Special Report provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future …
Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software
Symantec has announced its next-generation email and content archiving software, Enterprise Vault 10 , which now purports to automatically classify email …
NetApp upgrades management software for cloud systems
NetApp has announced a new version of its OnCommand management software, which now allows its storage arrays to plug into …
VMware backpedals on price changes after customer criticism
After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, …
Lloyds Banking Group lines up huge HBOS system migration
Lloyds Banking Group is testing systems ahead of a major migration of Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) accounts onto …
IBM rivals drop EC mainframe complaint
Three rivals of IBM have dropped a major European Commission antitrust complaint against the supplier, around mainframe technology, the company …
Google accuses Apple and others of “hostile” patent campaign
Google’s chief legal officer today accused rivals Microsoft, Oracle and Apple of “a hostile, organised campaign against Android,waged through bogus …