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Samsung plans to give ARM’s big.Little architecture a big push as it announced plans to launch heterogeneous multi-processing tools for its Exynos 5 Octa chip. Read this Inside ARM: The British success story taking the chip world by storm Read more ARM’s big.Little architecture combines eight cores—a combination of “little” […]

Paydiant, the Boston-based startup that makes “mobile wallet” technology for retailers, banks and payment processors, announced this morning that it raised $15 million from investors. The Series C round included North Bridge Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Stage 1 Ventures and two of its customers, whose names were not disclosed. It’s […]

Just a few weeks after SFR announced the launch of its 4G services in Paris, Orange said on Monday it has finished building out its own LTE network in the French capital. Read this France’s 4G rollouts to speed up after SFR, Bouygues start network-sharing talks Read more While SFR […]

Cisco on Tuesday said it will acquire Whiptail, a solid state memory system company, for $415 million. Cisco plans to integrate Whiptail’s solid state memory technology into its unified computing system (UCS) products. Under the terms of the deal, Cisco pays $415 million in cash and retention-based incentives for Whiptail. […]

HP’s stock has underperformed the broader Dow Jones Industrial Average in recent years, putting it at risk. (Chart courtesy Google) Aluminum producer Alcoa, tech stalwart Hewlett Packard and Bank of America will be dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, according to an Associated Press news alert published this morning. […]

Seagate on Monday took the wraps off a hard drive designed for tablets that brings 7x the storage capacity of a 64GB device with the same performance as a Flash drive. The drive, the Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD, uses software to boost performance. The idea is that Android tablet manufacturers […]

When you think about open-source database management systems (DBMS), you probably think about Oracle’s MySQL and its great rival/fork MariaDB. That’s thinking too small. There’s another great, enterprise capable DBMS, PostgreSQL, and its latest, greatest release PostgreSQL 9.3, has just arrived. While it’s not as well known as MySQL and […]

This morning in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit the case of Verizon, et al v. FCC, et al will begin. Verizon and other ISPs are appealing “Open Internet” rules issued by the FCC in 2010. To pursue an ideological solution in search of […]

(Image: Microsoft) Last October I wrote how Xbox Music would be the one music subscription service to rule them all and that seems to be even more true today as we see the launch of Xbox Music for iOS and Android. Microsoft also now provides free streaming online, with ads, […]

Featured Review Verizon Motorola Droid Maxx Review: Battery life to please the road warrior Read more EE has signed up one million customers to its 4G network, four months ahead of its own self-imposed target. Because it could reuse a chunk of mobile spectrum it already owned, EE was able […]

Cloud is often seen as the way to go for small companies with few IT resources. However, the middleware and development layer of cloud — Platform as a Service — is becoming a hot commodity for large organizations as well.  Photo credit: Joe McKendrick That’s the word from Sacha Labourey, […]

Last year, when asked on Reddit whether Microsoft would make its own dock for the Surface, Microsoft execs said that was not in the plans. But it looks as if they’ve had a change of heart, given the latest leaks from anonymous sources. Microsoft is readying a docking station that […]

Microsoft made available on September 6 an update (version 2.1) to its OneNote app for iPhone and iPad. The biggest new feature of the update is that now OneNote on the iPad is “untethered” from Windows PCs. That means users can create notebooks directly on the iPad and create, delete […]

Following a pattern set by Facebook a few weeks ago, Yahoo has published its very first transparency report, outlining the number of government data requests received during the previous six months. The timing is interesting — for both Yahoo and Facebook — given that these reports are coming out in […]

Online retail giant eBay is in the process of acquiring Decide.com, an independent company that provides advice to consumers intended to prevent “buyer’s remorse.” Read this Google I/O 2013: Building better e-commerce experiences on Android Read more Decide.com CEO and president Mike Fridgen confirmed the merger in a blog post on […]

Image: Shutterstock If it was their first time in town, they probably didn’t notice. But if they were paying a return visit to Bologna, foreign tourists will have had a pleasant surprise this summer: for the first time, they could get onto the city’s local government-operated wi-fi network simply by […]

Encryption is an arms race. It is, perhaps, one of the true fundamental arms races in the history of warfare. In World War II, for example, the Allies’ ability to decrypt the Axis communications (without their knowing about it) was a factor leading to ultimate victory. Encryption has always been […]

Almost everyone’s outraged to one degree or another by the latest Edward Snowden revelations. I have my problems with some of the claims, but others are clearly disturbing. What are we to do about it? Bruce Schneier is a famous and respected cryptographer and analyst of security more generally. He […]

Apparently, cloud integrators are really developing a thing for Europe. Appirio has been visibly building its presence there for the past two years, and local player Tquila has been growing its business at a fast clip. Now, Cloud Sherpas is expanding its footprint in the United Kingdom, with the acquisition of Stoneburn […]

After tripling SkyDrive Pro cloud storage to 25GB for SharePoint Online users, Microsoft is easing file upload constraints in its collaboration and content management platform for Office 365 business customers. Read this SharePoint 2013 gets a ‘consumer’ makeover Read more Microsoft has raised the the upper limit for uploading files […]

NetCom, Norway’s second largest mobile operator, this week released figures for its smartphone sales in the country. The stats — collected from all of NetCom’s channels, its 61 stores nationwide, its online shop and its dealers — reveal two major trends in the country: users are turning to larger and […]

As soon as Microsoft revealed it is snapping up Nokia’s phone business, the suggestions started have started that it should grab BlackBerry too. On the face of it BlackBerry’s enterprise credentials and loyal user base might make it the next target for Microsoft. And yet: BlackBerry has a strong ecosystem […]

The news this week that Microsoft is buying a major part of Nokia had many people lamenting the end of the Nokia brand in the mobile space, but as we dive into the details of the press release we see a glimmer of hope for future Nokia-branded smartphones. We may […]

(Image: Google Developer Dashboard) Android adoption in “Jelly Bean,” Google’s latest mobile operating system release, rose to more than 45 percent in August, according to new stats out today. The latest Android software, which collectively includes 4.1 and 4.2, rose by 5 percentage points last month, as all other older […]

Jaspersoft‘s BI stack has been all over the cloud.  It runs on Amazon’s EC2 platform, and can connect to Amazon’s RedShift data warehouse.  Jaspersoft’s Community edition also runs on GoGrid, Red Hat’s cloud, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.  But today Jaspersoft is announcing a different cloud partnership, as it says it […]

Image credit: Nestle Amidst all the fury following the announcement of the Microsoft/Nokia deal, Google quietly shook up the Android space with the unveiling of its affiliation with the KitKat candy bar. While Key Lime Pie was long expected to be the next major version of Android (4.4), ZDNet’s Rachel […]

Microsoft officials have said earlier this summer that the company is planning to release some time during its fiscal 2014 (ending June 30, 2014) “updates” to its Surface line of tablets. That’s all the company has said publicly. Privately, sources are beginning to leak tidbits from unnamed sources about what […]

One of the key assumptions behind the Microsoft purchase of Nokia’s device and services unit was that Windows Phone could garner 15 percent market share in 2018. Some folks on a conference call found that assumption optimistic. Turns out IDC does too. Microsoft dished out the following slide to justify […]

The importance of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is evident in the growing number of companies either already implementing, or planning to implement. Underscoring the strength of IaaS is the responses gathered in each of the last two Tech Pro Research surveys on the topic. The first, in April, detailed […]

Facing increased pressure from competitors including Vodafone and Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s incumbent telco Deutsche Telekom has announced upgrades to its mobile and broadband infrastructure in the country, including new top speeds for 4G users and an expansion of its fibre network. LTE to 150Mbps… Read this Vodafone increases 4G speeds […]