HP equips WorkSite with file-sharing service
Hewlett-Packard has launched a file storage service for users of its Autonomy WorkSite document management software that it promises can be more helpful than consumer-focused hosted file services. "With consumer-grade services, you can't govern what's out there and often you are not sure about security," said Dan Carmel, who is the head of enterprise content management strategy and solutions for HP Autonomy.
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SAP takes the fight to Salesforce.com, Oracle with social intelligence app
Many companies have begun using specialized software to analyze what people are saying about their products and services on social media, and now SAP says it can help them match up individuals' social profiles with customer history data from CRM (customer relationship management) systems. Dubbed Social Contact Intelligence, the application can help sales and marketing staff find better leads for sales as well as gain more knowledge about their actual customers' likes and dislikes, according to SAP.
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Gartner: Amazon still public cloud leader by a long shot
Amazon Web Services remains the top IaaS public cloud computing provider, offering the widest breadth of services of any vendor in the market, Gartner concluded in its annual Magic Quadrant report.
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Rackspace hosts VMware management with new dedicated server
The introduction of Rackspace's hosted Dedicated VMware vCenter Server will allow IT staff to control their VMware environments from a data center run by the vendor.
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Dell Foglight vanquishes zombie VMs
With an update to its Foglight for Virtualization software package, Dell can now help organizations rid their systems of resource-sucking zombie virtual machines. "It's so easy to create VMs. We have customers creating thousands and thousands of them. But what are the lifecycles of these VMs? In these larger environments, [administrators] don't know if they are being used," said John Maxwell, Dell vice president of product management.
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Tech legal news site Groklaw shutting down, citing email privacy concerns
Technology legal news website Groklaw is shutting down due to concerns over the continued availability of secure email in the wake of revelations about U.S. government surveillance. "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too," site founder Pamela Jones said in a farewell post Tuesday. "There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum."
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Internet Explorer takes the lead -- as most error-prone browser
There is good news and bad news for Microsoft in a report by Sauce Labs about browser reliability. The bad news is that Microsoft Internet Explorer has fared the worst overall in recent years. The good news is, Internet Explorer keeps getting better and better with each release.
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In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times
We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. Unix co-developer Ken Thompson worked at Bell Labs from 1966 until he retired in December 2000. He recalls this prank:
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Microsoft updates Windows Phone App Studio after developer projects soar
Microsoft is updating the recently launched beta of Windows Phone App Studio to improve performance and scalability after the new app development tool crossed 55,000 active projects.
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Is Silicon Valley's youth movement really just age discrimination?
The alarming turn of events at one of Silicon Valley's stalwart, iconic companies leaves many older Silicon Valley techies with more evidence in support of a legitimate gripe: They're losing their jobs to younger people. Earlier this summer, Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of the collaboration technology group at Cisco Systems, told a crowd at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco that Cisco will hire 2,000 Millennials this year.
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Amazon website, mobile apps down in hourlong outage
Just as many people are doing their back-to-school shopping, Amazon.com's website crashed for the better part of an hour Monday. The downed site was first noted at 2:48 p.m. ET Monday on Twitter. It was online around 3:35 p.m. Amazon.com showed a sense of humor while its site and mobile apps were down briefly Monday afternoon. The website showed this page, including covers of children's books titled "I'm Sorry My Bad," "Oops!" and the video "Grave Mistake."
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Outlook.com and Skype integration starts to roll out
Microsoft has integrated Outlook.com with Skype in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, offering users the ability to tap Skype functions and contacts from within the interface of the webmail application.
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Apple, Samsung nearly neck-and-neck in smartphone customer retention
Apple and Samsung were almost equally able to keep customers in their respective smartphone folds over the last 12 months, an analyst said Monday. "Apple has built one of the world's most successful brands, and it's well known for the loyalty of its customers," said Michael Levin, co-founder of Chicago-based Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP). But Samsung's not that much different.
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