The hacker group Anonymous has stuck again. The loosely associated hacking collective group, which has hacked financial institutes, government websites, the Pentagon, GoDaddy, and others, has released huge 16 GB block of software, data, and code related to Bank of America. The data was not due to one Anonymous hack, but the group found a ...

Sony has huge ambitions for the PlayStation Network and the next generation PlayStation 4. Although Sony talked at length about the PlayStation 4’s philosophy, the company managed to leave out details such as specs and price. It didn’t even showcase the PS4 system’s main body, opting only to reveal the controller. Sony talked about its ...

Fibre Channel technology, which has been available since 1988, is undergoing its next evolution with the recent doubling of the speed of 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps. Fibre Channel (FC) emerged as a way to move data from central servers to large adjacent storage systems. The specification of 16 Gbps was completed in the fall ...

Innovative storage technologies such as flash-based memory are shaking up the world of deep storage, forcing manufacturers to radically transform their underlying architecture. This work, largely initiated by vendors in 2011 and continued throughout 2012, is expected to accelerate in 2013 and reach to the entire stack of computer storage arrays servers. The appeal of ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put forth the idea that Microsoft has always heeded the direction of what companies want more than individuals, but with BYOD in full swing, Microsoft is listening to the public with the release of the Surface Pro hybrid tablet.   Gone are the days were CIOs are the only people making ...

One of the world’s leading augmented reality technology developers, Augmented Pixels, formerly known as AR23D, has attracted investments from AVentures Capital. The amount of investment was not disclosed, but the deal for the fund will own AVentures 25% of the company. AVentures Capital, a Ukrainian venture capital fund that invests primarily in the information technology ...

Completely dominated by ARM processors, the massive and growing smartphone market is an area where Intel has only recently landed. And the chipmaker understandable seems to be concerned with its lacking position in the mobile market. In the end, smartphone shipments have exceeded the number of PCs, marking an unavoidable turning point for Intel, its ...

As expected amid all the recent rumors, Sony has announced the PlayStation 4, which will appear in stores in time for the upcoming holiday season. Seven years after the launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony on Wednesday presented the PlayStation 4 in the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York’s Manhattan Center. The Japanese electronics giant hyped ...

Here we are! Later today almost all doubts about the mysterious presentation of PlayStation 4 will be stripped of for all. And then hours before the start of the conference, there comes a heavy rumor from Kotaku, which said it had learned from a reliable source (the same one that revealed the code names of ...

Storage is strategic IT decisions that companies must make. This is even truer with the rise of the cloud. What data can be stored online, and how does one go about optimizing the available space? The cloud in its current state is more an extension of functions with advanced backup disaster recovery, although in the ...