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Apple, IBM join to make iOS the default enterprise mobile platform
It's hard to imagine a more unlikely partnership: Apple, the highpoint of trendy consumer-focused mobile computing and IBM, the high point of, well, the opposite – the business mainframe computer hulking in a data center.But put them together, and some interesting things could happen for enterprise IT and business iPhone and iPad users. Read More
Everyone - not just IBM and Apple - is talking about mobile apps
IBM-Apple partnership sense ripples far and wide across the tech industry Read More
Apple-IBM deal: The moment pundits have been waiting for
Tuesday's late breaking news announcement by Apple and IBM that they will work together to bring IBM's big data/data analytics apps to iPhone and iPad users in the enterprise has industry watchers reaching back into their memory banks to explain the historical significance of this pairing. Apple exec Phil Schiller spouted the party line: Apple + IBM = Redefining the mobile enterprise http://t.co/ainqkNA6SA http://t.co/8jBk1PGM17To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
The Black Hat Quiz 2014
How well do you know the security conference's revelations about NSA, pwned cars, spying cell phones and more? Read More
You better not shout, you better not cry, 'cause you can't leave Comcast without telling 'em why
Ryan Block, the former head of Engadget and founder of GDGT and who is now at AOL, just wanted to cancel his Comcast service. But when he called Comcast the rep wasn't about to let him off easily unless Block explained exactly why he wanted to cancel his account. A Mexican stand-off ensued with the rep aggressively and repeatedly demanding an explanation and Block, with what I can only classify as superhuman restraint (I would have been spitting teeth after a couple of minutes of this BS), politely declining to answer every time.Fortunately for us, ten minutes after the start of the call when it became clear this was no ordinary customer service call, Block had the presence of mind to record the exchange which went on for another 8 minutes:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Rebounding PC market lifts Intel earnings
Intel's second-quarter earnings got a boost from a quicker-than-expected turnaround in the PC market, driven by the continuing upgrades from Windows XP, the chip maker said Tuesday.Intel recorded a net profit of US$2.8 billion for the second quarter of 2014, up 40 percent from the same quarter last year, the company said.Revenue was $13.8 billion, up 8 percent year over year. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected revenue of $14 billion.Shipments from Intel's PC Client Group expanded 9 percent as it shifted more Haswell- and Bay Trail-based processors. Revenue from the division was up 6 percent to $8.7 billion.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Bank of America illegally copied $300 million in software, alleges Tibco lawsuit
Bank of America illegally copied US$300 million worth of Tibco's enterprise software for use in a massive IT project at its Merrill Lynch subsidiary, Tibco alleges in a lawsuit.The bank stockpiled large quantities of Tibco software while it was still within the terms of a license agreement that expired in February 2013, then used the software for the project when it was out of license, according to the suit.As of Tuesday, Bank of America hadn't filed a response to Tibco's suit, which was filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. But a spokesman said the bank had done nothing wrong."We have a long history of positive relationships with our third party partners," spokesman Mark Pipitone said via email. "In accordance with that, we have acted in good faith to observe the scope of Tibco's license at all times, and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft may lay off over 6,000 employees
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft may soon announce the biggest round of layoffs in company history. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said in an interview last week that he has preparing to make sweeping changes at Microsoft. The reductions will probably be in engineering, marketing and areas of overlap with Nokia, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public. The last time Microsoft announced widespread layoffs was back in 2009 when the company laid off approximately 5,800 employees. But this time around, a recession isn't behind the cutbacks. Rather, Microsoft today is bloated (especially after the Nokia acquisition) and continues to struggle in mobile where it continues to play catch-up to companies like Apple and Google. As a point of perspective, Microsoft absorbed an additional 30,000 employees when it acquired Nokia back in September of 2013 (though the deal didn't officially close until a few months later).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
U.S. malware share rising, Amazon service No.1 in hosting it
Solutionary's Top 10 list also includes Google and Akamai. Read More
'Six Californias' lunacy looks headed for ballot
Congress will never agree to split California into six states. It will never happen, yet an inexplicably wasteful effort led by billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper, dubbed "Six Californias," is reported to have collected the signatures necessary to place Draper's pipedream on the ballot. Read More
HP chairman resigns due to ill health
It's another change at a company that's battling to get back on track Read More
It's alive: New supercomputer reborn from old supercomputer parts
An older supercomputer from the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been cannibalized and rebuilt into a new one, thanks to a team from Carnegie Mellon University. The older system was called Cerrillos, which was once the 29th-fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the Top500 list from November 2009. Cerrillos was a smaller offshoot of Roadrunner, a more powerful machine that was once the fastest in the world, and the first to break the 1 petaflop performance barrier. Both machines were shut down in 2013. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Russian hackers breach CNET, steal one million usernames, passwords and email addresses | 3 Ways to Spot a Bad Boss Before You Take the Job +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
New products of the week 07.14.14
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Anturis and Apcon Read More
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