Microsoft slashes Surface RT prices by 60% for schools

Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%. » zum Artikel

Power to the people: AT&T sets up free mobile charging stations in NYC

AT&T today announced a pilot project of solar-powered charging stations across all five of New York City's boroughs where the public can charge phones, tablets and ... » zum Artikel

Financial Times CIO Christina Scott right on the money

From the hot metal press to desktop publishing and broadcasting via radio or television, the media has always been driven by technology. You could argue that technology ... » zum Artikel

Caterham F1 IT chief drives Grand Prix end user support

Head of group IT at the Caterham F1 team Bill Peters bellieves a connected mobile workforce will help the struggling Formula 1 team improve their fortunes on the track. » zum Artikel

The Microsoft break-up that never happened

Thomas P. Jackson, the former federal judge who in 2000 ruled that Microsoft should be split into two companies as punishment for monopolistic business practices, died ... » zum Artikel

Industry to get access to fastest ever government supercomputers

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to build supercomputers "1,000 times more powerful" than any existing ones in the ... » zum Artikel

Keeper keeps your passwords safe, but it can be pricey

As a password manager, Keeper has the basics covered. It captures login info and passwords for you as you browse the Web, securely stores them in a neatly organized vault ... » zum Artikel

Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy

Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology ... » zum Artikel

Canonical taps international cell carriers for mobile advice

Canonical announced Tuesday that it has formed an advisory group of international wireless carriers including big names like Deutsche Telekom and Korea Telecom, but excluding ... » zum Artikel

Think like an attacker -- not a consultant

A provider doing an ICT security review should give the client what they need, not what they want, says security specialist Daniel Ayers. » zum Artikel

Phone wars -- why big data means big opportunity

Mobile is the technology trend which is arguably impacting our society more than any other. In Hong Kong, we are experiencing a mobile explosion. While mobile users grew ... » zum Artikel

SMBs having problems with backup, recovery: study

A recent study of small- and medium-sized businesses in the US and Europe revealed that many of them are facing challenges in implementing backup and recovery solutions ... » zum Artikel

Regional mobile roaming improves in Asia Pacific

Regional mobile roaming is set to significantly improve in Asia Pacific as nations in the region have come together to meet the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband. » zum Artikel

South Korea and Hong Kong beat Singapore in smartphone penetration: Ericsson

Last year, Singapore was the world's leading country in smartphone usage or penetration (74 percent), followed by Hong Kong, UAE and South Korea. This year, South Korea ... » zum Artikel

Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse

Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. » zum Artikel