Late last week, news broke that Microsoft has ended Windows 7 sales on October 30 and PCs with Window 7 would have an end of sales on Microsoft confirms Windows 7 sales ended on October 30 in 2014. Microsoft today confirmed the former date ...
On any given day cybercriminals and nation states are in possession of as many as 100 zero-day software exploits known only to them, NSS Labs has calculated using the commercial vulnerability market as a baseline. NSS Labs research ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
Tags: PC sales, online commerce
IBM is developing software that will allow organisations to use multiple cloud storage services interchangeably, reducing dependence on any single cloud vendor and ensuring that data remains available even during service outages. Although ...
Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft said Monday ...
Oracle's copyright case against Google's Android OS appeared to gain new life this week after a federal appeals court judge poked holes in Google's defence. A U.S. District Court judge in California ruled last year that Oracle's Java APIs ...
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Analyst firm A-V Comparative has released its November 2013 list of the antimalware programmes that do the best job of removing malware from an already infected system. What does this mean? As A-V Comparative notes, most PC users ...
Once heavily reliant on the Chinese market, Lenovo is now looking to make acquisitions as it tries to expand its growing enterprise business to other countries. Lenovo, widely known as a PC company, started selling bare-bones servers in ...
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Windows tablets will gain market share in the coming years, but not fast enough to challenge the dominance of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, IDC said on Tuesday. IDC is projecting Windows tablets to occupy 10.2 percent of ...
Tags: Windows Tablet, Android, iOS
This year will go down as the PC industry’s largest contraction, research firm IDC said Monday, with global shipments dropping by double digits and little relief in sight. The dismal numbers will not be welcomed at Microsoft, which ...
Tags: PC Market, PC industry
Eighty per cent of employees are potentially putting their companies at risk through use of unauthorised Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications on corporate networks. The extent of so-called "shadow IT" is revealed in a study for ...
Microsoft is to invest €170m (£141m) to expand its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) data centre in Dublin, Ireland. The expansion is scheduled to be completed by spring 2014, and will create 380 construction jobs and 20 ...
Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals. Now, Tumblr is flaunting its hipster credentials with a first-ever breakdown of ...
Tags: Tumblr, Hipster Twist
Antitrust regulators in the US have approved Microsoft's $7bn (£4.6bn) acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. The deal, announced in September, sees Microsoft take ownership of Nokia's Devices and Services business, which ...
The Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools has been updated with support for Windows 8.1 device and application management and Office 2013 virtualisation. MDOP 2013 R2,released on Monday, lets IT ...