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Next generation of MacBook Air to come with all-day battery life News
10.06.2013 At WWDC today Apple revealed the next generation of MacBook Air which will be capable of all day battery life and come with fourth generation Intel ‘Haswell’ Core processors...Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Samsung to address Galaxy S4’s storage shortage following Watchdog exposé (video) News
17.05.2013 Following an appearance on BBC One’s Watchdog, Samsung claims it’s working on improving the internal storage available to users on its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. -
New e-discovery guide to help IT pros in gathering electronic evidence News
17.04.2013 IT and legal professionals faced with trawling through masses of digital information as part of the legal discovery process or for internal HR disputes can now refer to a new... -
Career memes of the week: cloud computing News
02.04.2013 Cloud computing shows no signs of letting up. Gartner has forecast the public cloud services market to grow 18.5pc this year to reach US$131bn worldwide, up from US$111bn in 2012. -
World Backup Day reminds us to preserve our memories (infographic) News
31.03.2013 Today is the third annual World Backup Day, devised by Youngstown State University student Ismail Jadun to occur the day before 1 April, reminding us all not to be a fool and to... -
HP includes BT Engage IT as cloud partner News
19.03.2013 More details are emerging around HP’s cloud strategy, after the company added to its list of cloud partners with the signing of BT Engage IT and talked up its use of OpenStack... -
Google reveals Samsung and Acer Chromebooks to go on sale in Ireland today News
19.03.2013 Google has revealed that Samsung and Acer Chromebooks – the internet giant’s vision of computers for the cloud – will go on sale in Ireland later today. The Samsung Chromebook... -
Vatican to digitise Apostolic Library into 2.8 petabytes News
07.03.2013 The Vatican is to embark on a major nine-year project that will see it digitise its catalogue of 80,000 historic manuscripts, 40m pages and 8,900 incunabula, as part of EMC’s... -
Evernote is latest cloud giant to be hacked, instigates password reset News
04.03.2013 Cloud-based personal organiser Evernote has confirmed that it has discovered and blocked suspicious activity that it deems an organised and co-ordinated attack. The news comes...Categories: Storage, Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Digital Media, Data Management, Apps -
Hosted private cloud services business to surpass US$24bn by 2016 News
01.03.2013 Global spending on hosted private cloud services will be more than US$24bn by 2016, IDC has predicted. The sector will grow at a compound annual rate of 50pc a year over the...Categories: Storage, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Hosting Services, Global CIO, Digital Media, CIO -
VMware to acquire software company Virsto Software News
12.02.2013 Cloud and virtualisation provider VMware is hoping to boost its development of storage technologies with the acquisition of Virsto Software, a provider of software that... -
Weekend news round-up – Snapping at Snapchat, inside the Twitter business machine News
11.02.2013 In our round-up of the weekend’s top tech stories, we look at coverage of the mystique behind Snapchat, Microsoft’s confusing Surface Pro launch, the momentum of the Y...Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers, AppsTags: Apple, Windows 8, Surface, Microsoft, Apps, Twitter, Facebook, Computers, Personal Computers, Smartphones, Venture Capital, Funding -
Dell goes private in US$24bn transaction - founder regains control of company he started News
05.02.2013 Computer giant Dell is to go private under a US$24.4bn transaction led by founder Michael Dell and global tech investment firm Silver Lake and involving loans and financing from...Categories: Storage, Servers, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, IT Management, Internet, Hardware, eCommerce, Digital Business, Deals Done, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Dropbox rolling out updates with document previews and improved image sharing News
31.01.2013 Dropbox services 100m users saving 1bn files a day, but it faces stiff competition from the likes of iCloud, SkyDrive, Box and Google Drive. As well as introducing useful... -
EMC delivers strong Q4 and full-year results News
29.01.2013 US data storage firm EMC saw revenues rise for both its fourth quarter and full-year 2012, with increases of 8pc and 9pc, respectively. -
YouSendIt acquires Found Software – deal brings search to consumer cloud News
15.01.2013 YouSendIt Inc has acquired Found Software, an app firm that makes it easy to search for files and documents across your Mac and cloud services on one simple search platform.Categories: Storage, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Communications, CIO -
Cloud computing: fact or fiction? (Infographic) News
08.01.2013 Cloud computing has nothing to do with the weather and while it’s not entirely safe from cyber attacks, the technology is creating IT jobs and millions of people are using the... -
Dell in €100k virtualisation deal with pan-European pet food supplier C&D News
02.01.2013 Dell has signed a contract worth more than €100,000 to implement a virtualised hardware platform for Irish-based pet food supplier C&D Foods to help underpin the firms’s... -
IT professionals fear loss of control when it comes to cloud computing News
21.12.2012 IT professionals are still being deterred by the perceived risks of cloud computing with loss of control one of their biggest worries, a global study of 4,500 IT professionals... -
CIOs: don't get distracted by Flash, but focus on data agility News
19.12.2012 Solid-state storage will be a trend to watch in business IT next year, but CIOs have been urged not to focus on Flash hardware when evaluating their data strategies for 2013 and...