Organisations are struggling to manage the challenges of the mobile era,with less than a third formally testing their mobile applications,a survey has revealed. Where organisations are conducting mobile Quality Assurance(QA),they are ...
Tags: Mobile Apps, Security of Mobile Apps, software applications
Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
Tags: Tesco, Sentrum, IT Smartphones, in-store software
Advanced Micro Devices has launched the first new products from its SeaMicro acquisition earlier this year, including a server that can be linked to a massive, 5-petabyte storage cluster for running large-scale big data and cloud computing ...
Tags: AMD, USA, server, interconnect technology
Intel on Tuesday said it was on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year,brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for ...
Tags: Intel, Itanium processor, server chip, Poulson
Hewlett-Packard's layoff just got a little bigger. The company, in a U.S. Security and Exchange filing, said it will eliminate 29,000 positions, an increase of 2,000. In May, HP announced plans to cut 27,000 employees by 2014, or about ...
Tags: USA, HP, Layoff, computer industry
CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash. The rapid shift towards digital technologies,from big data to social ...
Tags: digital technologies, suppliers, Booz&Co, Solutions-orientated companies
Oracle said on Tuesday it will continue porting its database and other software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium server platform after a California judge ruled that it was obligated to do so. Oracle announced in March 2011 that it would stop ...
Tags: Oracle, HP lawsuit, Itanium, Intel processor architecture
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced an Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid device with the Windows 8 OS,signaling the company's re-entry into the consumer tablet market,which it abandoned after the highly publicized failure of its TouchPad ...
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
IBM and Hewlett-Packard tied for the top position in server factory revenue in the second quarter, with a 29.2% and 29.6% share respectively, IDC said on Tuesday. But Dell was the only vendor among the top five whose server revenue ...
Tags: IBM, HP, Dell, server revenue, US
A California judge's order that Oracle must keep porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium platform is now final,setting the stage for a jury trial over whether Oracle breached a contract with HP and what damages it may need to pay. ...
Lexmark International has exited the inkjet printer business and is laying off 1,700 people as part of a restructuring plan to improve profitability. Lexmark's restructuring will result in job cuts mainly tied to the inkjet ...
Tags: Layoff, Lexmark, inkjet printer
Samsung intends to fight Friday's landmark jury award of $1 billion to Apple over smartphone and tablet patent violations -- possibly for years. But while it fights on, Samsung and other cellphone makers are expected to make changes to ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, landmark jury, smartphone, tablet, patent violation
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
HP has confirmed it is writing off about$8bn after the drop in value of EDS,as the result of internal decisions combined with the global economic climate. Earlier this month Hewlett-Packard(HP)warned that it would write off$8bn after the ...
Tags: EDS, HP, reduction in its latest financial results, business damaged