Quantum Cryptology: The Holy Grail of Data Encryption?
With stories of new cyberattacks hitting the headlines every other day, not too mention the fact that the NSA seems to have the ability to help itself to whatever data it wants, more advanced…
“Other” Server Makers Gain Ground As IBM, HP, Oracle All Struggle
The global server market continues to suffer in the face of threats from cloud computing and virtualization, forcing OEMs to look for an escape avenue in emerging new areas such as converged solutions and…
Building Big Data: How Data Centers are Going Green
Few people are likely to have heard of Yerington, Nevada. The town, with a population of just 3,048 according to Wikipedia, doesn’t often hit the headlines, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t caught the…
Twitter + New York Times Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
As the US cranks up its war machine ahead of a possible air strike against Syria, that country’s cyberterrorist defenders, the Syrian Electronic Army, hit back with a number of notable scalps yesterday. In…
NSA’s UN Hacking Raises Yet More Questions: Is Nothing Left Sacred?
Last weekend, German newspaper Der Spiegal revealed the rather unsurprising news that the NSA had successfully bugged both the UN and a number of European countries’ US embassies, and also hacked into the UN’s…
ARM Steps Up To Power The Internet Of Things
UK mobile chip maker ARM is refusing to stand still. In the coming months we’re expecting a slew of new ARM-based tablets to arrive, including Apple’s latest iPad and Nokia’s first Windows RT slate,…
VMware’s Focus on Existing Customers As It Drives Virtualization Deeper
One of the biggest challenges for Vmware over the next few years lies in sustaining its current leadership, and to do so the vendor is seizing the opportunity to go deeper with its existing…
Ballmer’s Successor Faces Unenviable Job Cleaning Up His Mess
Few people will say it, but under outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer’s leadership, Microsoft has been enormously successful, growing and expanding, innovating, raking in billions of dollars for its shareholders. The profits are clear for…
Why Yahoo’s ComScore Crown Doesn’t Mean Crap
Yahoo raised a few eyebrows yesterday when ComScore reported that its home page drew more hits than that of Google’s, leading some to speculate that it might finally be winning over new users after…
Lenovo Snubs Microsoft With Pokki’s “Real” Start Menu & App Store
Microsoft might be confident that its forthcoming Windows 8.1 updates will be enough to satisfy the legions of critics who’ve made a hobby out of bashing its latest OS, it seems that the world’s…