Apple iOS 6 Now Available For Download
Today’s mobile news roundup features: iOS 6 now available for download; Samsung’s plans to add the iPhone 5 in a lawsuit; and HTC Windows phone now available for pre-order. Apple’s iOS 6 now available…
Big Money Data: US Military Spending Laid Bare
In this week’s big money data series, we take a closer look at one of the government’s biggest and, perhaps (depending on your viewpoint), one of its most unnecessary annual expenditures; it’s military budget.…
Apprenda Debuts Free Hosted Version of .NET PaaS
Analysts and industry watchers predict that the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions will soon be the fastest growing sector of cloud services. Many developers welcome the benefits offered by companies like Heroku and Microsoft Azure. However, the…
In-Flight Wi-Fi: More Expensive, But Much, Much Faster (No Thanks To Gogo)
It’s fair to say that since its introduction four years ago, in-flight Wi-Fi hasn’t exactly ‘took off’ in the way that people would have liked. Fact is, most airlines around the world simply don’t…
Angry Big Data: Mapping Protests Around The World
Since the emergence of a controversial movie ridiculing the Islamic prophet Mohammad sparked uproar in the Middle East, resulting in the death of the American ambassador after the storming of the US consulate in…
Cloudant to Provide Cloud Database Service to GAIN Fitness
By Isha Suri
NoSQL data layer as a service provider, Cloudant, has announced that personal training mobile app, GAIN Fitness has selected it to replace PostgreSQL, in order to provide more scalable application performance to their rapidly…
Inventive Redditor Builds Xbox 360 Into a Laptop Case and Walks into a Bar
By Kyt Dotson
Interestingly, it’s not a joke, yet that is the punch line for this inventive marvel. Most game consoles are a little bit less-than-portable—that’s why the mobile market is awash with handhelds that act like…
Microsoft Enables IntelliTrace for DevOps
By Isha Suri
Microsoft recently announced that it has enabled IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012 for DevOps, which will help the developer community to track coding issues easily and effortlessly. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 is already shipping…
Reddit Co-Founder Faces 13 Felonies for Data Theft, $1 Million Fine and 35 Years in Prison
By Cherr Aira
The number thirteen could possibly be the least favorite number of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz. Following four felonies in 2011, the Federal Government has filed nine more charges against the activist coder for breaching…
Microsoft Making Virtualization Easier, Cheaper for SMBs
Despite the obvious advantages, many SMBs are hesitant to virtualize their servers because of the complexity that introduces into the environment. They just do not have the resources to add the skill sets required…