Hewlett-Packard and Samsung have inked agreement with Microsoft for copyright protection to assure installation of copyrighted Windows and Office software on PCs sold in China by the former two. Microsoft declared the news on June 19. The ...
Tags: HP, Samsung, Microsoft, Computer Products
Recently, Microsoft Bing initiated a global PK in Beijing, challenging Google that has been taking the lead in the US search engine market. Insiders analyzed that the global PK is in line with the development strategy for the Chinese ...
Capgemini is introducing a hybrid cloud orchestration service focused on Microsoft products, although enterprises will be able to manage any load with the offering, including applications running on Linux, the company said. The core of ...
Tags: Capgemini, Microsoft Cloud, Skysight Service
Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8.1, Bounty Program
Against a backdrop of market tumult, enterprise software companies this week reported mixed quarterly results. Though Red Hat reported a robust quarter, Oracle revenue flatlined and Tibco's sales and profit declined year over year. ...
Tags: Wall Street, Red Hat, Oracle, Software Vendors
Intel is now looking to the Android operating system as it breaks away from years of optimizing its top line of Core PC processors, including the recently launched Haswell processors, chiefly for Windows. Intel is looking to hire a ...
Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen, the company shepherding the open source ...
Tags: Rackspace, MongoDB Service, Data Store
PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the owner and organizer of Pack Expo, is making substantial changes to the education program at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2013 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 23–25). ...
Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
Tags: Foxconn, Firefox OS, Mozilla
Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (R) stands with Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, during the launch of a new Nokia Lumia phone. Source: AFP Microsoft was in talks to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying ...
Microsoft has posted bounties of up to $US100,000 ($106,000) for "truly novel" ways to hack the latest version of its Windows software for powering computers. "For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hacking Bountries
Windows 8 is a ‘disappointing' operating system and Microsoft has six months to convince doubters otherwise, or risk being frozen out of the enterprise IT environment. That is the view of Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO of Air France ...
Tags: Windows 8, Microsoft, Air France
Microsoft has reversed the DRM [digital rights management] policy for its upcoming new console, the Xbox One, only a week after it was announced. The policy, made public on 10 June 2013 at the Electronics Entertainment Expo [E3] in LA, ...
Tags: Microsoft, DRM Policy, Xbox One
Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday. ...