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There’s been another twist in the Dell buyout saga, with hawkish activist investor Carl Icahn making it quite clear that the company’s board doesn’t have a chance in hell of ‘buying him off’ for a few million dollars in order to play …
Rackspace Courts App Developers with Mobile Cloud Stacks
Rackspace is making a move to mine a rich vein of developer services, teaming up with mobile-focused enterprises in a new scheme that sees it offer free “mobile cloud stacks” service for developers. Essentially, the scheme involves a package of open-source technologies …
Intel Unveils Blazing Fast Thunderbolt 2.0 With 4K Support
It won’t be long until we get our first look at Intel’s next-generation Haswell chips, but this is far from being the only technology that it has under wraps. During a presentation at yesterday’s National Association of Broadcasters show, Intel finally lifted …
Bitcoin Mining Malware Stalks Skype, Turning Computers into Virtual Slaves
Increasingly desperate to cash in on the sky-rocketing price of Bitcoin these days, gangs of cybercriminals have designed a new malware that’s infecting computers via Skype in an attempt to build a botnet massive enough to start mining the virtual currency. The …
Avere Launches “Industry-First” Hybrid Storage Appliance to Take on NetApp, EMC
Flash storage provider Avere Systems has just rolled out a new hybrid filer storage appliance that allows enterprises to shift large files through their server architecture quickly and efficiently. This might sound like a pretty basic application, but Avere insists that with …
Amazon’s Domain Bid up the Creek without a Paddle
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is holding its 46th meeting in Beijing this week in order to discuss the implementation of thousands of new gTLDs, or Generic Top Level Domains, across the internet. But while tech giants like …
HP Set to Eclipse Rivals with Project Moonshot?
HP is finally set to lift the lid on its long-awaited Project Moonshot later this morning, unveiling what analysts predict will be a new class of low-power, hyperscale servers that can scale up performance quickly. The event has been eagerly anticipated thanks …
Rackspace: This Time, The Patent Troll’s Gonna Pay
Want know how to fight the plague that is patent trolls? Then you could try taking a leaf out of Rackspace’s book. The cloud infrastructure provider, buoyed by its success in seeing off a patent infringement lawsuit over Linux just last week, …
Google Fights FBI Over NSL Data Requests
Google is taking on the full might of the US government in what will be a milestone court case, launching a legal challenge against the FBI’s warrantless electronic data-gathering technique – the first time a major communications company has taken such action, …
Facebook Home: Good For Dumb F*cks, But Not For The Rest Of Us
And so the “Facebook Phone” has finally landed. Only problem is, it isn’t a phone at all, but simply just an app. That’s right folks, despite all the fanfare and cries of “Wow! A Facebook phone!” and the rest of the buzz …