More than 100 tablets using Intel's Oak Trail chips are being designed and some will start shipping in the first half of this year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Wednesday at CES.
Since CES, Microsoft's Windows 7 tablet strategy has largely been to spin its wheels - while iPad sales surge and Android-based tablets gain momentum. Has Microsoft fallen behind its rivals?
It finally happened. After years of building momentum -- and more than a few false starts -- Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has finally reached critical mass. There are now more users running some variant of Firefox (50.6 percent) than not running it, according to the latest statistics from the exo.performance.network [1], which tracks the actual usage and configurations of thousands of PCs globally, providing a real-world snapshot.
Avaya's data networking business – obtained from its recent $900 million acquisition of Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions group – grew 30% in the company's second quarter, while its government business grew 15%, indications that momentum has returned following Nortel’s bankruptcy.
Automation of security is a concept with momentum this year as some of the larger federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Agriculture and Energy, are pushing for a new direction beyond the current FISMA audit mandate for compliance.
At its annual TechEd conference this week, Microsoft has the chance to sustain the momentum of Windows Phone 7 or fumble away the excitement the redesigned mobile OS has created.
Despite Windows Vista's widespread reputation as a resounding failure, it is actually more popular with big businesses than predecessor Windows XP was at the same time after its release, a Microsoft Corp. executive said on Thursday.
A petition launched in December by MySQL creator Michael 'Monty' Widenius to "save" the open-source database from Oracle has quickly gained momentum, collecting nearly 17,000 signatures.
For Microsoft, 2010 will be a critical rebuilding year where the software giant must maintain Windows 7 and Bing momentum, resuscitate Windows Mobile and prevent businesses from "Going Google."
The European Commission has accused manufacturers of cathode-ray tubes of running cartels in the markets for computer monitors and TVs, the regulator said Thursday.
MySpace stopped innovating at a time when it led the social networking market and had strong momentum, leaving the door open for competitors such as Facebook and Twitter, said Jonathan Miller, who oversees News Corp.'s Internet businesses, including the embattled MySpace.
As companies rode out the recession and slowly regained some sales momentum in 2010, profits started improving and stock prices began to recover. For CEOs that could only mean one thing: pay raises.
In an effort to thwart the momentum of Arista Networks and IBM's BLADE Network Technologies business, Cisco this week announced what it claims is the first high-performance trading fabric optimized for the financial markets industry.
Rumors of an Apple Inc. netbook gained momentum Tuesday as the Dow Jones financial news service confirmed earlier reports that the company will launch a touch-screen-based computer, perhaps as early as the second half of this year.
LTE (Long Term Evolution) has picked up steam in the last few weeks, with operators moving forward and auctions taking place, helping the technology become a global standard.
Koninklijke Philips Electronics will include the cost of recycling its products in their retail prices in three countries that don't yet mandate recycling of electronic equipment waste, it said Wednesday.
An Apple iPad with a smaller screen, if released, could create tough decisions for buyers and slow the momentum of the current 9.7-inch iPad and a number of Android devices with 7-inch and 8-inch screens, analysts said on Thursday.
With its Napster acquisition this week, Rhapsody, the venerable U.S.-only digital music subscription service, is in battle mode as rival Spotify attempts to carry its strong momentum in Europe to America.
The race to manufacture the most power-efficient and fastest chips is gaining momentum, with contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries on Thursday announcing technology advances that analysts said could allow the company to catch up with Intel's chip-making capabilities by 2014.
Getting a read on how well Microsoft Windows Phone has been doing has been tricky in recent months, with each indication of momentum seemingly offset with one or more negative market share or news reports. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's memo sent within the company Monday and published publicly by Microsoft indicates Windows Phone 7 probably isn't living up to Microsoft's expectations.
Momentum continues to grow in the user-centric identity space. The recent release of Microsoft’s Vista desktop operating system, the first to include the CardSpace technology, could be the catalyzing event. CardSpace, itself, uses the Internet Explorer browser as the basis for the user interface but there are now two different Firefox-based implementations for those who avoid IE whenever possible.
Is Linux on the desktop in your future? Momentum in the enterprise is slowly building for “the march of the penguin.” (Please forgive me...I love puns!)
Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Roughly two years ago we wrote a newsletter on the potential use of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) to, among other things, improve WAN management. ITIL was originally defined in the 1990s by the U.K. government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency and its goal is to provide detailed, vendor-neutral process definitions that can be adapted to any IT organization. Today, and in the next newsletter, we’ll describe the momentum behind the move to implement ITIL.