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As almost everyone has probably already noticed by now, there are some radical changes going on in the way that organizations purchase, manage and use technology. Since IT is (by its very nature) adaptive, this is not totally unexpected. However, even though we expect technology to change, there are periods when it changes faster than others. And right now, changes are coming quickly: between virtualization and cloud, mobile and BYOD, VDI, large-volume storage and the slow uphill push to Exascale computing, IT is in a period of transition. ...

Oracle reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter in 2013 last week, telling a tale of two product lines: Its software operations fared respectably, while its hardware slumped dramatically Revenue posted for the quarter totaled US$8.18 billion, a 2 percent reduction from the same period last year. GAAP net income was up 11 percent to $2 billion...

The Iranian government announced on Sunday that Gmail and Google would be filtered nationwide until further notice, and it also sent out the notice as a text message to citizens' mobile phones Google Search is accessible but isn't functioning properly, Google services which need a secure SSL connection can't be accessed, and Gmail is out of reach, ...

Facebook is making changes to its search function by adding a user's search history within the social network to the Activity Log, the company said The tweaks, while still relatively minor at this point, could be part of more large-scale efforts to strengthen Facebook's search presence and compete with Internet rival Google.

Foxconn Technology, the Taiwanese electronics maker typically linked with Apple products and workers' rights violations, said it closed a Chinese plant Monday following a fight between factory employees, according to The New York Times Foxconn said that several people from the Taiyuan plant, which employs nearly 80,000 people, were hospitalized an...

Bizo, an online marketing provider that focuses specifically on the business segment, has introduced two new apps that refine its marketing reach Bizo Company Targeting and Bizo CRM Retargeting, which can be deployed separately or together, are tightly integrated with Salesforce.com, although it is not necessary to be a Salesforce.com client to use...

Sometimes if you stand back a moment, which is what I have to do, you suddenly see broader trends, and what I'm seeing now is that the planets seem to be aligning for a Microsoft decade. However, I'm reminded that the difference between chance and luck is the difference between a hundred bucks landing in front of you unseen and your picking it up. ...

When Paul Steiner published his 1993 cartoon in The New Yorker with the caption, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog," little did he know it would become a mantra among security professionals, especially those concerned about authenticating identities on the Net The job of finding ways to identify dogs in cyberspace has been assigned to the...

The launch of smartphones with the capacity for e-commerce created a new channel for Internet merchants to address, mobile commerce. M-commerce revenues are expected to grow to US$31 billion by 2016, according to Forrester Research. The number of mobile devices available formaking purchases on the Web has drastically increased since the iPhone fir...

In the not too distant future, all data, whether it is data at rest or in transit on a network, sensitive or not, will be encrypted. However, the performance overhead associated with encryption and decryption is one of the few remaining roadblocks to enterprise-wide adoption of this technology Fortunately, new approaches such as on-chip acceleratio...

A company by the name of Rethink Robotics appears to be one step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of people in the robotics industry -- it has unveiled an apparently easy-to-use robot that can learn and adapt to new circumstances The robot, Baxter, has the usual oversized robot arms, but its "head" is a screen with a placid face. Think of a m...

The White House is close to completing an executive order on cybersecurity, Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano has reportedly stated This order aims to protect the United States' critical infrastructure -- our electric grid, water systems and transportation networks -- from cyberattacks....

Trulia, an online real estate listing company, hit it out of the park Thursday in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange The stock priced at US$17 per share and then opened at $22.10. It rose an eye-popping 48 percent to reach $25.20 per share at one point before settling in at $24 per share at the market's close....

Microsoft won another patent victory over Google's Motorola in Germany this week, after a European court ruled that several Motorola mobile products infringed on a Microsoft patent dealing with touchscreen data input. Microsoft has the option to pay a bond to enforce an injunction against several Motorola tablets and smartphones. Microsoft has not...

Walmart is reportedly giving Amazon the boot and will no longer allow the online retailer to sell its Kindle e-readers and tablets -- beyond the inventory it already holds in stock -- in the stores that make up its brick-and-mortar empire Target made a similar move earlier this year. Now, with Walmart following suit, Amazon's Kindle product line h...

Microsoft has asked China to crack down on pirated Office software used by four major state-run companies, according to Bloomberg Speaking to a government panel last month, Microsoft named China National Petroleum Corp., China Post Group, China Railway Construction Corp. and Travelsky Technology as serial users of pirated software. Microsoft allege...

Citing recent threats of cyberattacks, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry body set up by the financial services industry, has raised its cyberthreat level from "elevated" to "high." It points to credible intelligence indicating the potential for distributed denial of service and other cyberattacks against fi...

Mobile network operators are investing enormous sums into their next-generation LTE networks out of necessity, and with the release of the iPhone 5, with 4G/LTE capability, operators are under even greater pressure to offer LTE services in order to stay competitive. The success of these investments relies on carriers' ability to effectively moneti...

To grow a business, you need leads. So how do you fill the funnel, especially if you're a small business that no one has heard of yet? Ten years ago, the formula was pretty simple. It was all about driving traffic to your website, getting people to fill out a form, and then following up with them using sales reps or email marketing. Today, in the ...

Tasker, an app from Crafty Apps, is available for US$6.49 at Google Play....