Greenpeace hits out at dirty cloud technology
Environmental group Greenpeace has slammed Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter for operating dirty clouds. The group says that while Facebook, Google and Yahoo are leading the way in making the...
View ArticleGoogle to angry GMail users: we know better
Many people who thought they could get away with running the old GMail user interface despite contant nagging to "switch to the new look" have quickly discovered that the almighty Google has decided it...
View ArticleEmail could die in 10 years, Hitachi Data Systems says
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has introduced its HUS (Hitachi Unified Storage) family of products and claimed that it now offers the entire spectrum of integrated storage devices covering the largest to...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Ballmer goes carbon neutral
The shy and retiring CEO of Microsoft Steve "sounds of silence" Ballmer has signed off on a commitment to become carbon neutral. Vole said that it will set an internal carbon price to help drive...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Ballmer undergoes rebirthing
The shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "there's a kind of hush" Ballmer says that his outfit is undergoing a rebirthing. While to many new agers that means crawling through a sleeping bag while a...
View ArticleHP axes 27,000 while results disappoint
Computer giant Hewlett Packard will, as expected, put 27,000 of its people out of work while its profits for its latest financial quarter fell by a third while its revenues slipped by three percent.The...
View ArticleMicrosoft says sorry for dancing girls
Software giant Microsoft has had to apologise to Norwegian developers who were shocked at a presentation that featured dancing girls and obscene song lyrics. A video of the routine, which was given to...
View ArticleYale researcher warns of cloud complexity
A Yale researcher is warning that cloud based systems could melt down as the systems become more complex. According to Network World, Bryan Ford wrote in a paper, which he will present to the USENIX...
View ArticleQualys goes for $100 million IPO
Cloud security provider Qualys wants to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock. The company provides a cloud computing based platform for companies to secure its IT...
View ArticleUS gov agencies slowly embrace the cloud
According to research from IDC, US government agencies are increasingly looking towards cloud services and there is a growing demand for enterprise architecture resources. In a best practices report...
View ArticleKicking Pat Gelsinger dismisses ARM on EMC
Incoming VMware chief executive Kicking Pat Gelsinger has booted out any hope that the company's storage arrays would be built around ARM chips. According to Slashdot, Gelsinger told the Hot Chips...
View ArticleAMD embraces Redmond with Windows Server 2012
AMD announced that it has been courting Microsoft behind the scenes while Windows Server 2012 was under development to make sure its Opteron chips re "ideally suited to deliver unparalleled server...
View ArticleMicrosoft invades China
Microsoft is moving its forces behind the bamboo curtain and expects to hire more than 1000 staff in China. Redmond has already hired 4,500 in China, but the company says it needs more Chinese Voles if...
View ArticleStudy suggests open source before cloud
A study of by prominent British IT academic Professor Jim Norton suggests that CIOs should not trust the cloud and should look at replacing their legacy systems with something open saucey instead. Big...
View ArticleCisco boss suggests even Meg can't turn around HP
Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers says that Meg Whitman faces an impossible task in trying to turn around HP. Chambers told Reuters that there has never been a company that has been turned around by...
View ArticleResearchers to push OS into the cloud
With computer users increasingly relying on the cloud, a group of researchers are planning on the next step - a fully cloud based operating system, TransOS. Cloud computing has been a buzzword for some...
View ArticleMicrosoft admits that it is copying Apple
After years of being accused of copying Apple, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that his new business plan is to, er, copy Apple. Ballmer has indicated that Microsoft's cash cows of operating...
View ArticleWindows 8 spells doom for Microsoft's OS in enterprise
The CEO of Salesforce.com claims that Windows 8 will be the death of Windows in enterprise computing. Marc Benioff told the Cloudforce conference that users must decide whether to continue moving...
View ArticleARM revenues up 20 percent in Q3
ARM has seen its revenues rise 20 percent in its Q3 results as customers continue to spend on mobile devices. Competitors such as Intel and AMD may be suffering from slow PC sales, but ARM has seen the...
View ArticleIntel CEO Paul Otellini announces resignation
Intel CEO Paul Otellini, 62, will step down after almost 40 years at the chip giant and the search is on for the company's next leader. Chairman Andy Bryant praised Otellini through the nose and gave...
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