HP Heats Up Storage Wars with Gen8
Hardware maker Hewlett-Packard is facing a lot of competition, even beyond the race for the title of most eco-friendly data center vendor. HP is facing its old rival Dell as well as others in…
EU Greenlight’s Google-Motorola Buy, US Likely to Follow
Search giant Google has managed to transform Android into a huge success story, one that today is probably exceeding what even the creators of the OS had in mind. The ecosystem that built up…
Teradici Unveils VDI Card Amidst VMware Partner Frenzy
Several companies announced their new partnerships with virtualization giant VMware today, including Cisco and Mitel. The latest one is Teradici, which is also deeply involved with the VDI market and just launched a new…
HP Unveils Idiot-Proof, Virtually Self-Managing Servers Called Gen8
By Klint Finley
Today HP announced a new line of ProLiant servers dubbed ProLiant Generation 8, or Gen8 for short. The new line bakes in automation and monitoring tools and comes equipped with a sensor array for…
Anonymous Busy Over Weekend Attacking CIA, Mexico, Greece, Alabama DHS Websites
By Kyt Dotson
It’s been an extremely busy weekend for Anonymous hactivist cells who have struck out at government and police websites across the globe. On Friday, the website for the CIA was reported as having gone…
AT&T Unlimited Data Plan: You May Get Throttled
By Saroj Kar
Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers that it will slow down their service once the user hits 2GB of data used in a month. AT&T reasoned that only the top 5 percent of data…
Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011
By Kyt Dotson
Over the weekend, Valve’s consumer-class cloud-based game delivery service, Steam had an announcement about the hack that affected their service in November 2011. Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, told users that while hackers had…
VMware Gains OEM Deals with Cisco, Mitel
VMware, the majority-owned virtualization unit of storage giant EMC, has entered into two new reseller agreements with Cisco and Mitel, a provider of call center solutions. The relationship with Cisco focuses on the enterprise.…
Boxee After DVR Subscriptions as Cord-Cutting Goes Mainstream
Boxee, the cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV, is said to be considering the launch of a paid…
AppMobi’s New Platform Provides In-Game Analytics
App development solutions maker AppMobi introduced its latest product today, a software development kit for developers that’s specifically designed to power HTML5-based applications. The company has managed to pack a long list of features…