Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference Thursday. read more »
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 4 Mar, 2010
Gartner has raised its worldwide PC shipment forecast for this year, predicting growth of 20 percent compared to 2009, partly driven by growth in shipments of mobile devices like laptops and netbooks. read more »
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at University of Washington about cloud computing, the company's strategy and why it's not just for techies. read more »
Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA Conference. read more »
Two major trends led to lower prices for outsourced IT services last year--the global economic downturn and the uptick in remote infrastructure management (RIM) adoption. read more »
Still not sure what the heck Twitter is or why you'd want to use it? I understand completely: Friends and family members are constantly asking me, "What the heck is Twitter, and why would I want to use it?" read more »
Microsoft has stopped distributing a Windows patch thought to cause a Blue Screen of Death on XP machines, and said it is investigating the problem. read more »
Google, which rose to prominence on the basis of its highly popular search service, has been moving away from its core business at an increasingly swift rate. read more »
By IDG News Service staff, IDG News Service 12 Feb, 2010
From the outside, Hewlett-Packard's newest data center looks like a massive, well-secured loading dock, devoid of logos and surrounded by a robust barbed-wired fence in a nondescript industrial park. read more »
