With the emergence of smartphones, tablets and cloud services, analysts called these times as the post-PC era. Gone are the usual hassles of saving data to a particular PC only to be attacked with malicious viruses. PC sales are dwindling and taking a hit on PC manufacturers. Yesterday, Intel posted its second quarter earnings which ...

A recent EMC-commissioned study reveals that the private cloud computing industry will grow 10 times in a span of four years and create 100,000 new jobs. Zinnov Management Consulting has performed a comprehensive study on over 100 CIOs & IT decision makers in India.  Zinnov found that India currently has $400 million in total cloud ...

With companies like Groupon and LivingSocial already in a big lead in the daily deals sector, American Express wants to catch up to the leaders of the pack with its own fresh idea. Yesterday, American Express launched a new app in Facebook called “Link, Like, Love”, which offers daily deals to AmEx card holders. The ...

Yahoo’s Q2 profit rose compared to the same period last year, but revenues fell by 5%. The decline has been attributed to the company’s reorganization of its sales department earlier this year. “We underestimated how much the changes would increase turnover,” said Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz. “We didn’t have enough salespeople in front of big ...

VMware generated quite a bit of buzz last week by launching vSphere 5 and a suite of integrated VMware products which could shape the future of cloud infrastructure. This was indeed a timely move, after Citrix recently acquired Cloud.com. It is evident that VMware is not yet ready to give up the top spot in ...

Shares of HTC Corp., Asia’s second largest manufacturer of smart phones, has dropped after losing out in a preliminary ruling by the US International Trade Commission against Apple Inc. The ITC ruling says that HTC has violated 2 Apple patents. Initially, Apple had filed an infringement suit of 10 patents, but 6 were dropped. On ...

Gluster, one of the leading providers of open source storage for public, private and hybrid clouds, has teamed up with Linux Foundation with the goal of promoting and developing Linux.  Gluster’s also growing its board, adding Rob Bearden to the company’s board of directors.  Bearden’s been quite active in the open source community, heading the ...

With hopes of improving its operations, AlMajdouie Group has selected HP Converged Infrastructure – which includes servers, storage, backup and services. HP’s packaged infrastructure automates the relevant operations of AlMajdouie Group. AlMajdouie Group is one of the leading integrated transportation and logistics providers in the Middle East. The company started as a land transport company ...

Mobile apps have become very popular in these times of technological advancement. In just a few years, mobile apps continue at a rapid rate, on the production and adoption sides. Good thing for consumers, since they have a lot of options to choose from. However, the trend is becoming a headache for vendors as they ...

The controversy over the control of user information in social networks intensifies as Facebook blocks Open-Xchange’s contact exporting tool. Facebook once again asserts its control over the contact information of its users. Just last week, open-source and collaboration systems provider Open-Xchange launched a free demo tool, Social OX, which enables users to control their own ...