IDG News Service - The recent move by Microsoft to compete against its computer-maker partners and launch its own tablet PC is a good thing for the market, a senior executive of Lenovo said Thursday at the IFA consumer electronics show in ...
Tags: Lenovo, Microsoft, Competition
IDG News Service-Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle,along with a number of other software and online services providers,have collaborated on a standard that they hope will ease the use of PaaS(platform as a service)among ...
Tags: Red Hat Team, Oracle, PaaS, Software AG, Huawei
IDG News Service-Applied Micro lifted the curtain on its 64-bit ARM-based server platform at the Hot Chips conference this week and ignited a debate about whether ARM is the right architecture for the data center. Pat Gelsinger,a former ...
Tags: 64-bit ARM, server chip, cloud-computing, integration
IDG News Service-Three book publishers will pay more than$69 million to U.S.states to settle charges they collaborated to fix prices of e-books. Hachette Book Group,HarperCollins Publishers and Simon&Schuster have agreed to an antitrust ...
Tags: E-Book Publishers, pricing-fixing, retail prices, Apple
Computerworld-Oracle today issued an emergency update to patch the critical vulnerabilities hackers have been using in increasing numbers to hijack Windows PCs. According to Rapid7,the security firm that maintains the Metasploit ...
Tags: Oracle, patch, hackers, hijack Windows PCs
IDG News Service-Google may be moving too slowly in building up Google Apps'enterprise social networking(ESN)features,at a time when this type of software has become a key component in workplace collaboration suites. On Wednesday,the ...
Tags: Google, enterprise social networking, Apps, ESN software
IDG News Service - SAP customers now have an additional tool to manage their technology landscapes in the form of SAP IT Infrastructure Management, which was announced as generally available on Wednesday. IT Infrastructure Management, ...
Tags: software, insight, environments
IDG News Service - Digital marketing firm Blue Calypso has filed a lawsuit against local deals company LivingSocial for patent infringement, less than a month after suing its competitor Groupon in a court in Texas. Blue Calypso said ...
Tags: LivingSocial, Blue Calypso, patent infringement, patents
IDG News Service - LG Electronics has launched an LTE smartphone with a quad-core processor, the Optimus G, which it hopes will set it apart from the competition as the smartphone market starts to ramp up for the holiday season. The next ...
Tags: LG, smartphone, processor, LTE
IDG News Service - Apple's top hardware engineer, Bob Mansfield, is not leaving the company after all and will stay to work on future products, Apple announced Monday. Apple said in June that Mansfield, its senior vice president of ...
Tags: Apple, hardware, software development, Riccio
IDG News Service-The source code of"We The People,"the online system that can be used by citizens to submit their petitions to the White House,is being offered as open source software,an official said on Thursday. "Now anybody,from other ...
Tags: petitions, open source software, SOPA, PIPA, API
IDG News Service-Growth in the PC market is expected to be slower than last year,after mid-year shipments slowed as consumers were hit by weak economic conditions,and also postponed purchases to evaluate Windows 8 and Ultrabook products ...
Tags: PC growth, shipments slowed, Windows 8, smartphones
IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a US$8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. ...
Tags: HP, weak sales, revenue, Personal Systems Group
IDG News Service - AT&T Wireless has partially disabled service at 16 cellphone towers in Oakland after the California city said they were interfering with its emergency communications system. Police and firefighters had complained of ...
Tags: Oakland, wireless, communications system, police radio system
IDG News Service-The Norwegian Tax Administration and the State Educational Loan Fund's use of Google Analytics violate the country's privacy laws,because the agencies have no control over how Google uses information about users,the ...
Tags: Google, Norwegian privacy laws, free service, Google Analytics