Goldman Sachs has released an investor report that confirms what many in the IT field have been saying for quite some time: business users are increasingly moving in the direction of cloud computing.
Samsung Electronics now has sales that exceed those of Hewlett-Packard. The South Korean electronics giant is therefore the world’s largest technology company when measured by sales.
USB 3.0 is ready for prime time, as witness a demonstration of the new version of the protocol at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, running on a Hewlett-Packard. And it is indeed fast.
Multiple problems (an internal service gone awry and a botnet attack) have troubled Amazon’s cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service over the past week, leading to a raft of user problems.
It turns out that the rumors were both short-lived and true. Apple has completed a deal to purchase music-in-the-cloud pioneer Lala, almost surely to update the iTunes business model.
Time Inc has been plagued by declining subscription revenue and layoffs, so it’s taking a new tact with its magazine content by testing a tablet-friendly version of Sports Illustrated. While the concept is promising, it won’t solve Time’s immediate problems.
Microsoft’s cleverly named “software plus services” strategy would probably work better with users if their cloud computing centers would stop turning into smoke and mirrors.
IBM has announced the launch of LotusLive iNotes Web-based email for businesses aimed at competing directly with Google’s low-cost business solution. And the kicker is that it’s cheaper to go with Big Blue.
Samsung Electronics has been steadily growing into a major industry power since it surpassed Sony’s market value in 2002 and now finds itself within reach of industry leader Intel.
The Blu-ray adoption rate has been climbing quickly. However, the price of the medium won’t be dropping as fast. The new HD format has grown tremendously over the past year and it is clear that Blu-ray is the new format, but the question remains if it will ever cost the same as the DVD.
The next generation of Zune portable media device gets its HD processing punch from the Nvidia Tegra chip with graphics processing built in. Could high-definition video be the move that leapfrogs the Zune past the iPod?
Researchers are nearing the point of actualizing the dream of quantum computing, and thus speeding up the rate at which we can solve some problems by at least several orders of magnitude.
Intel says it has found a way to produce solid state drives at less than half the existing price. It could be the last step to making the technology a serious mass-market alternative to traditional hard drives.
As more and more software packages, clients, and businesses move their data into the cloud, more and more cyber-attacks and fraud will be done in the cloud, says a cyber-crime federal prosecutor.
There is increasing evidence that consumers are slowly but surely moving away from buying DVDs in the numbers they once did. A victory for Blu-ray perhaps? No, not really, as even though sales are up by a substantial percentage, there’s a huge gap between the drop in the DVD market and the gain in the Blu-ray market.
One can never have too much memory capacity at the ready, and the SD Association is saying that come next year, you can expect at least double what SD cards already offer.
Intel is once again betting on flash memory to boost performance, this time planning to build the technology into it’s first chipset-on-a-chip architecture as well as new multi-chip configurations.
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