Dept. of Homeland Security Forced to Release List of Keywords Used to Monitor Social Networking Sites
The information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. The Daily Mail's article noted the Electronic Privacy Information Center wrote a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, describing it's choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'. More...
The coming release of Windows 8 tablets
With the coming release of Windows 8 tablets, Microsoft is looking to introduce a new form factor to the mass market. A tablet-laptop hybrid. Even though this has been done previously with products like the Asus Transformer Prime, certain issues have held back the form factor from as a matter of fact taking off. More...
Xbox 720 gains Microsoft acquisition
We’ve seen Apple, Google, and Facebook buy other companies and at that time integrate their innovation within a new product or service. Facebook did it recently with their new Camera app, and now it looks like we’re getting a few hints towards the new Xbox 720, as we like to call it, receiving deep Skype integration thanks to Microsoft purchasing the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) company not so long ago. More...
Decision in Microsoft's EC Appeal Scheduled
What it was as a matter of fact all about was Microsoft asking too much for patent licenses and interface documentation to connect Linux servers to Windows even though the EC offered Microsoft no pricing guidelines even when asked. More...
'I felt Oracle was in a position to do something nobody else could do'
In 2010, his friend and tennis partner, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, gave him a job and blasted the Hewlett Packard board that had ousted him amid sexual-harassment allegations for having made "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs". More...
Cabinet Office's open data exec moves to NHS body
Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. More...
Intel Keynoting at Cloud Slam 2012 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo
Jason Waxman, GM, Cloud Infrastructure Group, will deliver a headline keynote address focused on Intel's vision of federated, automated, and client aware cloud environments and the programs that Intel is driving with the industry to make it easier for enterprises and service providers to build, deploy, and enhance cloud environments to add value to their businesses. More...
ViewSonic teases 22-inch tablet
ViewSonic sent out a teaser for its series of "Touch and Connect" prototypes being shown off at Computex in Taipei, one of which is a 22-inch "smart business tablet monitor". More...
Academics propose groundbreaking uses for Watson
May 26, 2012, 7:26 AM — Three winners of an academic competition at the University of Rochester to create the most innovative and useful applications for IBM's Watson cognitive computing systems were announced yesterday by Big Blue. More...
Microsoft's upgrade avalanche a challenge
May 25, 2012, 10:03 AM — Microsoft is in the midst of an unprecedented, massive upgrade cycle for its enterprise software products, a refresh wave that represents a major challenge for CIOs and IT managers responsible for charting their companies' research strategy. More...