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As Government IT Spending Drops, Cloud Rises 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Federal spending for information technology has peaked. It will decline at a gradual annual pace for at least the next several years, but cumulatively it will amount to a significant amount of money. ...
Nexenta's Lockareff and Powell: Software-Only Storage for Everyone 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
In the cloud storage competition for customers, a battle is raging over innovative software-only storage systems and wannabe innovators still hawking yesteryear's legacy hardware solutions. Dollars an...
Microsoft's Next CEO Will Have a Tough Row to Hoe 27 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
By now the shock is wearing off and the steely-eyed calculations have begun following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's announcement on Friday that he will step down from his post some time within the nex...
AWS: The Cloud Is Falling 27 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
Amazon Web Services were impacted in some areas on Sunday, six days after Web stores in the U.S. and Canada went down for about 30 minutes, causing losses estimated at up to $45 million. The latest ou...
Delta Banks on 19,000 Windows Phones to Ramp Up Customer Service 26 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
Delta Air Lines has outfitted its more than 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phone 8 mobile devices that it expects will further customer service and facilitate on-board transactions. Specificall...
Amazon Dips Its Toe Into the Brisk WiFi Waters 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Amazon has run tests on WiFi technology that could give Kindle users direct Internet connectivity, according to a recent report. The technology uses spectrum controlled by satellite communications com...
Echopass Revs Its Engines for Enterprise Contact Centers 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Echopass recently unveiled a new enterprise edition of its software for corporations that use the cloud to manage their contact center operations. The offering consists of more than 40 applications an...
Real-Time Bidding Makes Its Way Into the Mobile Ad World 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Real-time bidding, or "programmatic buying" as it is sometimes called, is remaking the online ad industry with its approach of matching supply and demand of ad inventory in real time against the attri...
Former Windows Boss Sinofsky Resurfaces in VC World 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, who shocked the high-tech industry when he abruptly parted ways with the company shortly after Windows 8 was launched, has joined venture capital firm Andre...
Microsoft Stock Surges on News of Ballmer's Retirement 24 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on Friday that he will step down from his post some time within the next 12 months, depending on when a successor is chosen. Stocks in the company surged 7 percen...