IDG News Service-Two of Apple's top executives are leaving the company:Scott Forstall,who has overseen the iOS platform that runs the iPhone and iPad,will leave Apple next year,and John Browett,senior vice president of retail,is leaving ...
Valve,the company behind the popular games platform Steam,has opened its Linux-based Steam portal for beta registration. The private external beta–which the company is requesting that only experienced Linux developers ...
Tags: Valve, Steam, Linux, popular games platform Steam
IDG News Service-Modifying Apple's iPhone software to install applications not approved by Apple will still be legal under new exemptions to take effect on Sunday in the U.S.,but illegal for an iPad and other tablets. The seemingly ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPad, applications
Enterprise IT on the go with Windows 8 Windows 8 and the XP legacy What next for Windows 8 With the launch of Windows 8,Microsoft is taking a step into the unknown.In a bid to stop its lucrative PC operating system(OS)business losing ...
Tags: Windows 8 OS, Enterprise IT, Geoff Connell, Newham
IDG News Service-Facebook,under pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors,posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent on Tuesday,beating Wall Street expectations,but it also recorded a loss. Facebook's revenue for the third ...
Tags: Facebook, revenue, investors, Facebook's stock
IDG News Service-The famed iPhone hacker"Comex,"who engineered ways to hack Apple's mobile operating system,is no longer doing work for the company,according to Twitter postings. "So...no point in delaying.As of last week,after about a ...
Tags: iPhone, Apple, operating system
IDG News Service-Come Oct.26,when Microsoft is set to stage a release party in New York City,consumers may have to choose between a tablet with Windows 8 or Windows RT.The operating systems look and feel the same,but devices will differ on ...
Tags: Windows Tablet, Microsoft, performance, price, battery life, usage
Windows as a service Citrix helps SMEs cope with proliferation and remote support Citrix's position in an evolving and competitive market Virtual Microsoft Widows: A hostage to fortune? Budgets remain tight at enterprise end of market ...
Tags: Windows, Citrix, SMEs, growth of cloud
Computerworld-The Isis mobile wallet network will launch Monday in Salt Lake City and Austin,Texas,the Isis consortium announced Wednesday after an earlier delay in the launch. In an emailed statement,Isis marketing head Jaymee Johnson ...
Tags: mobile wallet, Isis, NFC-ready
IDG News Service - Citrix Systems has released an enhanced GoToMyPC app for Android devices allowing anyone with an Android phone or tablet, including Amazon's Kindle Fire family, to access their Internet-connected Mac or PC over a mobile ...
IDG News Service - Almost half of IT managers in a survey last month said that they plan to standardize their company's mobile platform on devices running Microsoft operating systems, including smartphone OSes Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows ...
Tags: mobile platform, IT managers, investment
Reader Adam Spelbring is unsure of exactly what limitations the Lightning connector places on iOS devices,particularly in their relationship to iTunes.He writes: I've heard that the Lightning connector doesn't carry a video signal to ...
The iPhone 5 is producing a higher volume of web traffic than the Samsung Galaxy S III,after less than three weeks on the market. That's according to research by Chitika Insights which monitored web impressions of the two devices and ...
Tags: Iphone 5, Samsung Galaxy S III, Chitika Insights, touchscreen
Network World-There has been much debate about the preferred wireless platform for application developers.Every platform has its own advantages and challenges,and there are key points developers need to keep in mind when choosing the most ...
Tags: wireless platform, interaction flow, ecosystem level, Windows 8
Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
Tags: VMworld Europe 2012 conference, Software, Cloud, cloud computing