5 tips to ensure cloud data quality
Choose neutral platforms and read providers' fine-print. These are steps companies should take before leaping to cloud, say data management vendors.
Apps to flourish on mobile, games
Developers should bet on Android, games, navigation and music, to reap returns, suggest industry watchers, who say business apps can also prove viable.
'Best effort' insufficient for cloud
Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
Can Adobe beat back the hackers?
As its software becomes a major means of attack, security experts wonder if it can fight hard enough.
Find more stories in: Authentication and encryption, PC security, Security Management, Adobe Systems Inc., Security, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., software, Antivirus Software, Authentication and encryption
Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes
At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, CEO says the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows. He also takes a few shots at Apple.
Find more stories in: Windows 7, Apple Inc., Steve Ballmer, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, shareholder
Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to see photos, videos, and tweets from main search results page.
Find more stories in: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo Launch, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Video, photograph, API, Search Result
More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up
Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts.
Find more stories in: Web 2.0, Facebook, Snap, PayPal, Boku, Phone, mobile, Web 2.0, game company, payment
Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal
Schedule is laid out for second round of final approval process as preliminary approval is given to revised deal submitted last Friday.
Find more stories in: Copyright, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, New York, Judge, researcher, U.S. District Court, agreement, Benefit
Google has its own plan for netbooks
No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the netbook of today.
Find more stories in: Microsoft Windows, Linux desktop OS, Personal Computers, Google Inc., Operating System, software, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Hardware
Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS
Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
Find more stories in: Browser, Web browsers, Google Inc., Mitchell Baker, Operating System, revenue, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Game console makers at crossroads
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are coming to terms with a dearth of blockbuster titles and increased rivalry from new gaming platforms such as smartphones.
Find more stories in: Game players, Games, Console Maker, Game Console, Microsoft Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sales, entertainment, Nintendo Wii, console
Microsoft told to stop some Windows sales in China
Microsoft ordered to stop selling some versions of Windows operating system in China, following licensing dispute with a local supplier.
Find more stories in: Microsoft Windows, Software licensing, Regulations, Microsoft Corp., software, software company, Sales, font, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property
With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars
By showing first glimpses of technology in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft also showing it's serious about building competitive browser.
Find more stories in: Web browsers, Acceleration Feature, Direct2D, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Graphics, Microsoft Internet Explorer, performance, Hardware, JavaScript
Rumors of a Gphone refuse to die
Yet another report predicting Google is about to release its own phone raises more questions than it answers about Google's mobile strategy.
Find more stories in: Development/design, Google Android, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Phone, network, Google Android, Smart Phone, Wireless
Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense
Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.
Find more stories in: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S., Internet search, Asia-Pacific, ComScore Networks Inc., Yahoo Search, barrier
Opera Mobile 10 beta now browsing Windows phones
Opera releases most recent mobile browser--complete with Speed Dial and new tabbed browsing design--for Windows Mobile phones.
Find more stories in: Mobile platforms/communications, Applications and tools, Browser, Windows Mobile, Opera Software ASA, Java Phone, Symbian Inc., Phone, mobile, Web Browser
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Find more stories in: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes
Third beta imposes new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.
Find more stories in: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, performance
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