Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will launch on 26 October. President of Windows at Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky, made the announcement at …
Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule
Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule …
Windows revenue falls 13%, share of sales drops to 23%
Weak sales of Windows last quarter dropped the operating system division to its second-lowest share of Microsoft’s total revenue since …
Industry coding consortium issue guidelines for safer applications
An industry consortium dedicated to assuring the security of software has issued guidelines to lower the risk that vulnerabilities that …
Qualcomm sees smartphones pushing demand toward year end
Qualcomm has lowered its forecast of global cellular device shipments for 2012 due to a gloomy economic outlook, though it …
Bing and Google deepen social integration in search
Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal …
Mobile device policies need to be liberal but firm: Gartner
Companies that put in dedicated policies for trusted work systems are now faced with a deluge of mobile devices in …
Symantec cripples Windows XP with defective update
Symantec last week crippled a large number of Windows XP machines when it shipped customers a defective update to its …
Cyquent offers Gigatrust’s content protection solutions for BlackBerry, iOS and Android smartphones
Cyquent Technology Consultants and Gigatrust recently announced that it now provides email security and content protection software products and services …
Acer to offer free Windows 8 upgrades on some ultrabooks
Acer is offering a free upgrade to Windows 8 on some ultrabook models, saying it will refund the upgrade fee …
Huawei launches public cloud solution and innovation centre
Huawei, an information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has announced the global launch of its Telco Public Cloud solution …
PC makers rush to build Windows 8 tablets
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will be entirely released by the end of October, signalling when Windows 8 laptops, PCs and …
Amazon, Google, Apple among least transparent companies in the world
Apple, Amazon.com and Google are among the least transparent companies in the world, according to a survey of 105 publicly …
Tablets, smartphones dent PC shipments in second quarter
Tablets and smartphones continued to eat away at worldwide PC shipments, which remained flat during the second quarter, according to …
BYOD means soaring IT support costs for mobile devices
Annual IT costs for managing smartphones will soar by 48% next year compared to 2011, a new survey by Osterman …
BlackBerry App World tops 3bn, RIM says
After months of gloomy news to report, Research In Motion finally has something to brag about. Its app store, BlackBerry App World, …
Windows 8 goes to manufacturers in August, will ship in October
Windows 8, the next major upgrade of Microsoft’s operating system for PCs, tablets and laptops, will be released to manufacturers …
Hauwai launches public cloud solution and innovation centre
Huawei has announced the global launch of its Telco Public Cloud solution and Public Cloud Services Innovation Center, which are aimed …
Apple could overtake Windows in platform war within two years: analyst
Apple now sells one device for every two Windows devices, revealing that Microsoft’s huge advantage in the platform wars has …
Mozilla mobile OS outshines Android, says Telefonica head
Mozilla’s Firefox mobile OS for smartphones offers a better proposition than Android on affordable handsets, officials from one of Europe’s major mobile …