IDG News Service-Boundary has added analytics features to its cloud monitoring service to give enterprises a better idea of how applications running on public clouds are performing and warn them when something starts to go wrong. Boundary ...
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Computerworld-Apple today said it sold 3 million iPad tablets during the opening three-day weekend of sales of the Mini,the same number it boasted it had dealt out in March for the then-new full-sized iPad. "We set a new launch weekend ...
Tags: iPad Mini, iPad Sales
Computerworld-Apple today unveiled the iPad Mini,a smaller tablet starting at$329 that features a 7.9-in.1024-x-768-pixel display and can run all existing iPad software without modification. The company also revamped the 9.7-in ...
Computerworld-Apple's new 7.9-in.iPad mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers,several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Why? It starts with the$329 price tag for a Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version,making it ...
IDG News Service-The PaaS(platform as a service)market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year,up from last year's$900 million take,as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones,according ...
Tags: platform as a service, analyst firm Gartner, sharp growth
Computerworld-The new iPad Mini costs Apple just under$200 in materials and manufacturing,an analyst said today,putting an exclamation point on the company's devotion to high profit margins. IHS iSuppli,which regularly tears apart ...
Tags: iPad Mini, margins, investment
The first teardown of an iPad Mini showed few surprises, but the team that took apart Apple's new smaller tablet said it was "extremely difficult" for do-it-yourselfers to repair. iFixit.com, which regularly rips apart devices sold by ...
Dell on Thursday said it will offer dedicated servers in its data centers and off-premises application and storage services for companies looking to establish private clouds. Dell's Cloud Dedicated program intends to reduce the stress of ...
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Computerworld - Tablets seem to be heading in two directions: There are those primarily designed for consumption of books, movies and other content, and those intended for content creation as well as consumption. That distinction is ...
Tags: Nook Tablets, Camera, 7-in.Nook HD, processing power, display resolution
IDG News Service - Brightcove's native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft's launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platform development tools for mobile apps are becoming increasingly ...
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Expanding beyond the delivery of software for its own cloud platform,VMware is acquiring DynamicOps for its heterogenous cloud management offerings. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.DynamicOps provides software for running virtualized ...
Texas Instruments has partnered with AllGo Embedded Systems to announce a reference design that will allow Android 4.0 tablets to be built for under US$70, the companies announced Wednesday. The Etab reference design is for a basic tablet ...
Tags: US, Android 4.0 tablet, cooperation, reference design
PC World - Amazon has scheduled a press conference for Sept. 6, suggesting that new Kindle e-readers and tablets are nearly here. The event is set for 10:30 a.m. Pacific time in Santa Monica, Calif., but no other information was given. ...
Tags: tablets, Kindle Ereaders, Apple's iPad, tablet market
Asustek has delayed U.S. shipments for its dual-screen Taichi ultrabooks, which were available for order from retail sites like Amazon, Newegg and TigerDirect. The Taichi tablet-laptop hybrid has an innovative design with two screens, one ...
Tags: Asustek, Taichi ultrabooks, electronical product, US
IDG News Service - Google's Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data centers based in either the U.S. or Europe. The performance upgrade allows ...
Tags: Cloud SQL, Google, Amazon Web Services, Relational Database Service