Dell affirms commitment to Windows RT
Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, said Neil Hand, vice president at Dell.
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US House to vote on CISPA cyber threat bill this week The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a controversial cyber threat information-sharing bill, will be debated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, despite continued opposition from some privacy and digital rights advocates. Read More ...
Report: Verizon wants to buy Clearwire spectrum Verizon Wireless reportedly has offered $1 billion to $1.5 billion for some of Clearwire's spectrum leases, possibly complicating Sprint Nextel's attempt to buy out the company in conjunction with its acquisition by Softbank. Read More ...
Women are making gains in booming tech-consulting market While the average unemployment rate for technology professionals is a mere 3.5 percent -- significantly lower than the national average of 7.7 percent -- the rates vary by job function. Among Web developers, it's just 1.0 percent, whereas programmers will see a rate of around 6.3 percent. Meanwhile, there's been a surge in technology-consulting positions, and women are grabbing a relatively high number of those new jobs. Read More ...
Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit, being held this week in San Francisco. Read More ...
Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software Dell says it's hoping to move closer to the forefront of data center technology with the release today of a suite of new products designed for software-defined networking. Read More ...
There's no way out of a bad Windows 8 Metro patch The debacle of two botched Windows 7 patches in the past six weeks raises all sorts Read More ...
AppliedMicro, Altera team to speed up ARM servers Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera. Applied Micro on Monday said it would combine its 64-bit X-Gene chips with Altera's FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in ARM servers. Applied Micro's X-Gene is expected to ship later this year or early next year, while Altera is a market leader in FPGAs. Read More ...
OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug Enterprise companies and startups alike continue to throw their support behind the open source cloud platform OpenStack, evidenced by the slew of announcements coming out of this week's OpenStack Grizzly Summit in Portland, Ore. Read More ...
EU's proposed Google antitrust settlement angers search rivals Google's proposed settlement of a European Union antitrust case amounts to continuing its discrimination against other search companies -- but putting a warning label on the practice, said an industry group. Read More ...
Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies. "We're getting into the business of helping large service providers become cloud providers," said Scott Sanchez, Rackspace's director of strategy. "We're taking all of our accumulated knowledge around how to be a successful cloud provider and we're delivering that to service providers around the world." Read More ...
Google's wearable computer faces bans even before Glass goes on sale Waltzing into a Las Vegas casino wearing Google Glass could be a risky proposition if staffers suspect you're using the wearable computer to surreptitiously shoot videos or photos. Read More ...
Report: Microsoft may also make smart watches Microsoft is working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, joining a number of other large competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple who are said to be working on similar devices, a newspaper reported. Executives at suppliers to Microsoft told The Wall Street Journal that the company was sourcing components for the prototype of what could potentially be a "watch-style device." Read More ...
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