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Apple CEO Steve Jobs resignation has sparked off a not-unexpected flurry of analysis and commentary from across the technology industry. In a letter to Apple’s board of directors and employees, Jobs suggested he could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple s CEO. He asked the board to activate a prearranged succession plan […]

VMware has announced the availability of a beta version of its new Micro Cloud Foundry platform as a service (PaaS) offering. Available as a free download at http://micro.cloudfoundry.com, Micro Cloud Foundry is a complete version of VMware s Cloud Foundry that runs on a developer s Mac or PC. The new offering enables developers to […]

Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as businesses move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to research published by CompTIA, the nonprofit trade association for the IT industry. More than half (56 percent) of the organizations surveyed for CompTIA’s Second Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study said their investment […]

Cisco Systems officials are continuing to bring their networking capabilities farther from the data center, with the latest example being the company’s new Cisco 819 ISR Machine-to-Machine Gateway. The new Integrated Services Router (ISR), announced Aug. 23, dovetails with Cisco officials’ idea of the “Internet of things,” putting networking capabilities into machines not normally connected […]

AMD has named Lenovo COO Rory Read as its new CEO, effective immediately. Read will also serve on AMD’s board of directors. Read, 49, has spent the last 5 years at Lenovo after a long career at IBM. "Rory is a proven leader with an impressive record of driving profitable growth," said Bruce Claflin, chairman […]

Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defining on-premises server and thick-client productivity applications, and in the other corner, we ve had Google, with its popular Webmail […]

Zyxel Communications, a provider of secure broadband networking, Internet connectivity, home entertainment and routing products, announced the availability of the NBG5715, a simultaneous dual-band, 450M-bps wireless-N router. Marketed as a premium model in Zyxel’s wireless-N series, the NBG5715 creates two separate, concurrent networks to double performance compared with a traditional router. The NBG5715 is currently […]

IBM, fueled by a 24.5 percent jump in revenues, moved into a statistical tie with Hewlett-Packard as the world’s top server vendor, according to second-quarter market numbers from market research firm IDC. IBM saw growth in all segments, including a 61.1 percent jump in revenue — to $1.2 billion — from its System z mainframe […]

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) last week waved the white flag for tablets and smartphones based on its HP webOS operating system. Anyone thinking Research In Motion (NYSE:RIMM) or other OEMs are doing the same against the rising tide of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPads, which command over 80 percent of tablet market sales worldwide, would be mistaken. Motorola and […]

Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for Web applications running in the AWS cloud. Amazon officials said the new service improves the performance of web applications by enabling customers to retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching […]

Microsoft has opened the doors for developers to submit Windows Phone Mango apps to the market. In July, the software giant said it would enable developers to submit apps to the Windows Phone Mango marketplace in late August. And it appears the company has made good on its promise. In an Aug. 22 blog post, […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system rose to 52 percent of units sold for the second quarter, posting its highest share ever in the United States, according to The NPD Group. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS grew to 29 percent in Q2, while Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry OS continued to fall, dropping to 11 percent. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) […]