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The past couple of years have seen rising interest in and considerable promotion of servers and appliances based on the ARM microprocessor architecture At first glance, the narrative makes some sense. ARM's native performance and energy efficiency, when multiplied across hundreds or thousands of systems, looks impressive for supporting certain kind...

The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2013, Part 1: Greenberg Through Rampen It's no easy feat keeping a good CRM blog going, but I've been keeping track since 2007 of those that succeed....

Linux Mint 16, also known as "Petra," is a very solid release that fixes a lot of annoying traits left behind in previous versions.The operating system is based on Ubuntu 13.10, and that solid underpinning is made even better with the upgrade to Cinnamon 2.0 and new functionality in the Nemo file manager....

NoSQL, Part 1: Coming of Age Back in 2009, SQL databases began emerging, mainly to handle modern Web-scale databases. They could handle massive amounts of data; tackle the exponential growth of newly created digital content from social media sites and websites; and help build value around data by connecting the dots -- no small task when a plethor...

The raft of problems connected to the launch of HealthCare.gov appears to have sunk the fortunes of the private contractor paid for running the site The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, charged with overseeing the health insurance marketplace, announced Saturday that it had awarded Accenture Federal Services a one-year contract for US$45...

Chevrolet pulled off the cover on its 2015 Corvette Z06 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Its new supercharged LT4 6.2L engine gets at least 625 horsepower and 635 pound-foot of torque. Though the engine is only around 1 inch taller than the Corvette Stingray's LT1 engine, it delivers nearly 37 percent more horsepower and 40 ...

Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows at its Build developer conference, to be held in San Francisco April 2-4, according to Paul Thurrot's Supersite for Windows The company also will talk about the next version of its operating system, code-named "Threshold," which will be officially named "Windows 9," Thurrot speculated. It ...

Further proof that the NSA surveillance scandal is impacting the United States IT industry came on Friday with the publication of a study conducted for Canadian Web hosting and cloud services provider Peer1 Hosting Fully 64 percent of the 300 UK- and Canada-based respondents to the survey hoped to move data from U.S.-based cloud service providers t...

Google has had its share of headaches in Germany, but this one is new Google apologized after Google Maps briefly changed the name of a Berlin intersection, "Theodor-Heuss-Platz," to its Nazi-era moniker, "Adolf-Hitler-Platz."

Up to now, the malware program CryptoLocker has been king of the ransomware roost, but PowerLocker (formerly PrisonLocker) may present a new challenge. "It has some interesting countermeasures to thwart researchers," Harry Sverdlove, CTO of Bit9, told TechNewsWorld....

When you write regularly about CRM, you realize what a challenge it can be to keep a blog going. The same themes come up again and again, and the technology does not radically change from release to release. So being a great CRM blogger requires something else -- the ability to understand the always-fascinating human behaviors that CRM is supposed to document, analyze and influence...

After my Belize retirement update appeared last week, a number of things happened. Most initially were rather painful, but eventually I was placed on the phone with Rod Kazazi, the project CFO who is based in the United States. Since we both had a financial background, he was able to address most of my concerns by informing me of solid programs that ensure the project will be completed. Had I met him sooner, I doubt I would have had to raise the alarms in my column, as there have been a number of recent improvements that put my mind more at ease about the project. ...

With all the headlines about Internet cybersecurity breaches, there seem to be few headlines about the consequences for cybercriminals That is because not all cybercriminals are caught, and when they are it often takes months, if not years, before trials. Even when the cybercriminals plead guilty, the sentencing phase often occurs months after the...

The Internet of Things, wearables, mobile devices and the next generation of automobiles were the standouts at CES 2014 "The Internet of Things will probably have the broadest impact, since it includes quickly evolving, increasingly intelligent and highly mobile technologies of every kind," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsW...

The security breach that initially appeared to affect as many as 40 million customers may put many more at risk, Target revealed Friday In addition to accessing those customers' payment card data, hackers stole the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers or email addresses for up to 70 million people, according to the retailer.

Google on Thursday started rolling out changes designed to further integrate its Gmail and Google+ platforms. The updates make it easier for Google+ users to contact other users without knowing their email addresses Going forward, when users with both a Gmail and a Google+ account begin typing a contact's name into an email draft, a list of Google+...

Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications outfit best known for its mobile phones and its propensity to spook U.S. lawmakers, announced that it has created China's first videogame console The timing of Huawei's announcement, coming at this week's CES extravaganza in Las Vegas, is interesting: Just this week, Beijing announced that it would for the fir...

Apple and Samsung have set a date on which they'll attempt to iron out their differences in a patent dispute that's headed to trial in March The companies have agreed to meet before a mediator on Feb. 19, according to a document filed with a federal district court in California, to discuss a settlement of their differences over some smartphone pate...

Rumors of a super-duper, amped-up, big-screen "iPad Pro" have been floating around at least as early as this summer, and that's before Apple surprised the tech community with its 64-bit A7 processors in September Overall, most of the rumors seem to surround speculative predictions, where a financial analyst predicts a class of new product in an att...

CES may have begun as the Consumer Electronics Show back in the late 1960s, but since then its producer, the Consumer Electronics Association, has changed the show's official name to International CES, in part to reflect its expansion beyond TVs, stereos and appliances At 2014 International CES, now under way in Las Vegas, that shift couldn't be mo...