Despite rumors, the iPhone 4S has no NFC chip
Speculation for months suggested Apple would put a near-field communication chip in its next iPhone. But when the iPhone 4S was unveiled this week, the mobile payment technology was missing from the device. It wasn't that Apple doesn't like NFC technology, but they apparently decided to wait until mobile payment systems are more widely adopted, analysts said.
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HP's PC sharing solution gets Ethernet connectivity
Hewlett-Packard has launched the t200 Zero Client, a $99 device meant to be attached to a monitor, that when used with a host allows up to 15 users to share a PC, the company said on Wednesday. The t200 can connect to an HP Compaq ms6200 host via USB for close-proximity computing environments, or via Ethernet for more physically dispersed deployments. The operating system is Windows MultiPoint Server 2011.
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5 reasons to set up unified communications
There are so many different ways to communicate with partners, customers and co-workers--by phone, email, instant messaging, fax, video conferencing, and social media. Managing each system separately is not only inefficient, but can cause conflicts since they all use the same underlying technology--the Internet.
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Android malware downloads instructions from blog
Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a piece of malicious software for Android that receives instructions from an encrypted blog, a new method of communication for mobile malware, according to the company. The malware, which can steal information from an Android phone and send it to a remote server, purports to be an e-book application. It has been found on a third-party Chinese language application store.
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It's not the coding that's hard, it's the people
The data about software development is sobering. Many projects end up over budget and over schedule, and one study puts the failure rate at one-in-five. The path to better projects may be for software developers to become better people. A recent conference on agile development had new-age sounding sessions on such topics as "An Introduction to Non-Violent Communication for Agile Coaches," "Fear Driven Impediments" and "Collaborating with Non-Collaborators."
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Ellison unveils new cloud, trashes Salesforce.com
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled a public cloud service that will run its Fusion Applications and others, and while doing so delivered a withering broadside against competitors, with his harshest words for Salesforce.com.
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Making iPads enterprise-ready
Apple has unwittingly become an enterprise player, says Edward Marczak, author and executive editor of MacTech magazine. The company is leading the trend toward IT consumerization as users become attached to their iPads and iPhones and IT administrators try to incorporate the devices into existing corporate technology infrastructures.
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From friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in
As news of the death of Steve Jobs spread around the Internet, the tributes came pouring in today, crediting Apple's co-founder and chairman with -- more than once -- changing computing as we know it.
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Ignore the doomsayers; Apple will be just fine after Jobs
When Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO on Aug. 24 due to a terminal cancer that finally slowed him down too much to do the job he loved, the second-guessing had already started: Apple will be fine for two years, then drift into failure.
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Steve Jobs: A look back at his career
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who resigned from the company in the mid-1980s and returned a decade later to make Apple one of the most successful technology companies in the world, has died.
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died
Apple co-founder, former CEO, and chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple's board of directors has confirmed. He had been battling pancreatic cancer and had stepped down as Apple CEO in late August saying he was no longer able to do the job. He had remained as Apple's chairman after promoting then-COO Tim Cook to CEO.
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OpenStack spun out from Rackspace control
Responding to the rapid adoption of their software, the folks behind the OpenStack cloud software are planning to form a stand-alone nonprofit foundation to steward future development of the open-source software suite. They will formally announce the foundation Thursday at the OpenStack conference, being held this week in Boston.
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AMD's first eight-core desktop processors detailed
Details about Advanced Micro Devices' first eight-core desktop processors, based on its Bulldozer architecture, have appeared on some retail sites ahead of their official launch. The FX-8150 and FX-8120 processors are part of the re-launched FX family of chips, which are pitched as high-performance parts aimed at gaming machines and other high-end systems. The FX chips are based on AMD's new Bulldozer architecture, which provides a speed boost of 50 percent or more compared to its predecessor, according to AMD.
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