Google Android threatened by fragmentation
Rapid growth in the Google-backed Android mobile phone OS Â puts the platform at risk of fragmentation, an analyst study said this week.
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Microsoft's cloud-enabled Office 2010 set to join battle with Google
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Next month, Microsoft will release Office 2010 into an IT world that Google has been reshaping as use of its Google Apps services spread to places like the City of Los Angeles and Genentech, Inc.
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iPad costs more to make than first thought, says iSuppli
Apple's iPad costs as little as $260 to build, but nearly half of that goes toward the 9.7-in. LCD touchscreen display, research firm iSuppli said today.
The new number is $31 higher than an earlier computer model-generated estimate by the company. The head of iSuppli's teardowns blamed the under-estimate -- iSuppli missed the mark by 12% -- on unexpected complexity and pricier parts.
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1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm
More than a year after doomsday reports hinted that the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows.
And 25 of every 1,000 systems are currently infected with the worm.
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Targeted cyber attacks test enterprise security controls
Targeted cyber attacks of the sort that hit Google and more than 30 other tech firms earlier this year are testing enterprise security models in new ways and pose a more immediate threat to sensitive data than a full-fledged cyber war.
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 beta leaked, screenshots surface
An early build of Windows 7's first service pack has been leaked, leading to thousands of downloads on a whole host of various torrent Web sites.
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Intel to ship samples of experimental 48-core processor
Intel will ship computers with an experimental 48-core processor to researchers by the end of the second quarter as the company tries to reshape its future chips.
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Virtualization: How to get your power company to pay
It might have been the rage in 2006, but interest in green IT drooped along with the economy during the last two years, analysts say. But virtualization and cloud computing initiatives also help to reduce energy and save money. Consequently, some utilities are offering financial incentives to companies that undertake energy-efficiency initiatives.
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Virtualization: How to get your power company to pay
It might have been the rage in 2006, but interest in green IT drooped along with the economy during the last two years, analysts say. But virtualization and cloud computing initiatives also help to reduce energy and save money. Consequently, some utilities are offering financial incentives to companies that undertake energy-efficiency initiatives.
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NetApp to purchase storage virtualization vendor Bycast
NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities.
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Microsoft tries to simplify supercomputing with Windows HPC Server beta
Microsoft's quest to make a name for itself in the high-performance computing world took a step forward this week with a new beta version of Windows HPC Server that Microsoft says will improve scalability and simplify supercomputing.
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IBM responds to Oracle's Exadata with new systems
IBM announced on Wednesday a new range of integrated systems for large-scale data analysis, mounting a fresh challenge to rival Oracle's Exadata platform.
The offerings include the pureScale Application System as well as Smart Analytics systems for System z mainframe computers and x86 machines.
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