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The United States remains the global leader in supporting science and technology research and development, but only by a slim margin that could soon be overtaken by rapidly increasing Asian investments in knowledge-intensive economies, according to a report by the National Science Board, the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation. The report comments on […]

For years, computer users’ biggest security threats were attacks against their desktop computers and applications. But cyber-criminals increasingly have been turning their sights toward mobile devices and Web applications, as they are fertile new ground for lucrative cyber-attacks. It won’t happen overnight, of course, and there will still be more than enough security flaws impacting […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials reportedly are not ready to concede the super-thin notebook space to Intel despite the headlines garnered by the larger chip maker s ultrabook strategy at the recent 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. During the event the week of Jan. 9, AMD officials outlined the company s plans for its upcoming Trinity platform, […]

The current mindset regarding solid-state disk (SSD) drives is that they are extremely expensive, but the reality is that both SSD drives and systems have dropped in price significantly, making them a viable option for select applications in today’s IT environments. That’s according to a report from disk-based data storage systems provider Nexsan, which released […]

The Web s response to SOPA and PIPA is officially in full swing. Both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECTIP (PIPA) at hand in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, respectively are intended to curb online piracy by allowing copyright holders to block access to domestic and foreign Websites allegedly distributing illegal […]

Data protection and cloud services provider Symantec, filling out its cloud and collaboration software portfolio, revealed Jan. 16 that it has acquired longtime partner LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based archiving services. Financial details of the transaction were not released, but Jefferies & Company equity analyst Aaron Schwartz said in a media advisory that he estimated […]

ORLANDO, FL–At Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta version of its next iteration of IBM Docs, formerly known as Lotus Symphony. Available now on Greenhouse, the cloud-based set of social document editors includes a suite of office-productivity applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. IBM Docs was designed to help teams share […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, a non-profit international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information space, launched an open standards initiative to enhance the portability of cloud applications and services. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will […]

Despite being owned by Microsoft, the company’s mobile Windows Phone operating system still doesn’t have an application by voice over IP (VOIP) provider Skype, but that will change soon, Microsoft’s Skype division Vice President Rick Osterloh promised in an interview during last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Some analysts are predicting the […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM kicked off Lotusphere 2012 today, with a general session that demonstrated the many uses, benefits and faces of social business. This year’s Lotusphere and Connect conferences underscored the importance of socially-enabling business processes–from the three-song set by Ok Go–a band whose success was partially fueled by the popularity of its award-winning […]

Wikipedia plans on undergoing a self-imposed blackout Jan. 18, in protest of proposed legislation that it says would harm a free and open Internet. The legislation in question includes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) before the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The bills are intended to […]

Booming sales of Ultrabooks spurred by strong support from Intel will drive explosive growth in the market for cache solid state drives (SSDs) in the coming years, with shipments set to soar more than a hundredfold by the end of 2015, up from less than one million units in 2011, according to an IHS iSuppli […]