Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Riding the cloud
The Jumeirah Group has built a private cloud in a hybrid environment to connect disparate offices and improve efficiency. Home …
Nokia outsources Symbian OS activities, transfers employees
Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, transferring 3,000 employees to the company in the process, as it …
Nokia’s profit drops
Nokia reported an increase in sales for the first quarter, but profit declined and the company expects a challenging second …
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 …
Malaysia to offer free e-mail to all citizens by 2015
Malaysia plans to offer every adult in the country a free Web-based e-mail account to ensure that tax returns, court …
Mobile independence
Consumerisation of IT has created a desire in every employee to access corporate information using a array of personal mobile …
Windows XP still most popular, says research
Windows 7 has expanded its lead over Windows Vista with more than 350 million licences sold after 18 months on …
Securing the virtualisation journey
This week, CPI and leading security vendor Trend Micro brought together CIOs and IT managers across two verticals – oil …
Intel smartphone ambitions stunted by Nokia withdrawal
Nokia’s move to the Windows Phone OS took the “wind” out of possible volume sales of Intel smartphone chips this …
IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes
IBM says it will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this …
Yahoo optimistic despite Q1 revenue drop
Yahoo’s revenue and profit slid significantly in the first quarter, but the company’s performance was in line with Wall Street’s …
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 …
Certifications that matter
As companies look bridge talent holes in their IT organisations, there is an increased emphasis on vendor-and technology-specific training. Here …
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 …
Web pages compromised in mass injection attack
More than 50,000 webpages have been compromised in an SQL injection attack that has been dubbed Lizamoon. Security firm Websense …
Salesforce.com to acquire Radian6
Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter …
Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit
Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
Firefox 4 sets unofficial download record
Mozilla set an unofficial record for software downloads on the second day of Firefox 4’s launch, the company said Friday. …