Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Cisco has apparently declared war on Microsoft’s unified communications platform, having chosen the eve of the first Lync conference to describe it as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s ...
Together they consumed $45.3bn of semiconductors during the year Samsung has overtaken Apple by becoming the top global semiconductor consumer in 2012, according to a new report from Gartner. Gartner's design total available market ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, Semiconductor Consumption
Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of good news, but not enough to dispel the pall that hangs over the technology market. Apple, ...
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IDG News Service - Well, the Secure Boot saga keeps going on and on as Linux distributions far and wide decide how they're going to work around Windows 8's planned restrictions, and this week we heard from yet another project. It was SUSE ...
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It's obvious that cloud computing imposes vast change within IT organizations. I've written repeatedly on this topic, addressing issues such as cost allocation, job opportunities, automation requirements, security and the relationship ...
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Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a serious software flaw that allowed criminals to gain complete control of all web traffic running through them. First ...
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IDG News Service-Hewlett-Packard will allow enterprises to pay for managed LAN offerings based on usage,in much the same way they pay for cloud services,through a partnership with telecom service providers. HP's FlexNetwork Utility ...
Tags: IT career growth, HP, cloud services, Swisscom
IDG News Service - There's been a lot of talk from about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way. Red ...
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Acer,one of the big-five PC vendors,has put back the launch of its own Windows RT tablets following the launch of the Microsoft Surface and the mixed reviews that it has received. The company is unlikely to release a similar product ...
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Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
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