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Lenovo Profit Soars: Up 90% Year-Over-Year
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 23, 2013
The Chinese PC maker seems to be the only company in the industry that continues to grow.
Report: U.S. Is Safest Location for a Data Center
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 23, 2013
Nordic countries also scored well.
Twitter Debuts Two-Factor Authentication
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 23, 2013
The security measure will make it tougher to hijack accounts.
HP Earnings Fall But Beat Analyst Estimates
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 23, 2013
The PC maker’s stock soared after it released its quarterly financial report.


China's Aurora Attack Was Really a Counterespionage Effort
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 22, 2013
The hackers gained access to sensitive U.S. government information.
Gartner: Leading IT Operations Software Vendors Are Losing Market Share
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 22, 2013
IBM and CA still lead the market, but Microsoft, VMware and a crowd of smaller vendors are growing fast.
Conversational Search Comes to Chrome
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 22, 2013
Ask Google a question out loud, and it will tell you the answer.
Report: U.S. Power Companies Under Near-Constant Cyberattacks
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 22, 2013
One utility says it averages 10,000 attacks per month.
Amazon Cloud Wins Approval from Feds
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 21, 2013
Federal agencies will be able to use Amazon Web Services without performing separate security assessments.
Apple's Lead in Customer Satisfaction Ratings Narrows
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 21, 2013
Microsoft and ISPs also got bad news from the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Google to Shut Down Checkout Payment Processing Service
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 21, 2013
The company will now focus on its Wallet service.
Senate Questions Apple's Tax Tactics
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 21, 2013
Lawmakers had harsh words for the company's tax avoidance techniques.
Survey: Facebook, Twitter Listed as Top Enterprise Collaboration Tools
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 20, 2013
Enterprise users may not understand the difference between true enterprise collaboration platforms and consumer social networking services.
Business Intelligence, Analytics Are Top Enterprise IT Priorities, Says Gartner
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 20, 2013
The research firm says BI could improve 79 percent of business processes.
Galaxy S4 Is Samsung's Fastest Selling Device Ever
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 20, 2013
The company expects to pass the 10 million sales mark this week.
Report: Chinese Hackers Have Resumed Attacks on U.S. Targets
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 20, 2013
The attacks are believed to be the work of the Chinese Army.
Report: Foxconn Workers Are Still Working Too Much
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 17, 2013
The Apple supplier has addressed 98 percent of the issues related to poor working conditions.
London Court Sentences LulzSec Hackers
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 17, 2013
Three of the men tried for cyberattacks got jail time; a fourth got a suspended sentence.
Lawmakers Question Google on Glass Privacy
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 17, 2013
Google says it will be easy to tell if someone is using Glass to record you.
Dell Earnings Drop 79%
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 17, 2013
The bad news could be good news for Michael Dell's privatization bid.
Report: Stuxnet May Have Strengthened Iran's Nuclear Capabilities
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 16, 2013
A researcher argues that the malware, designed to damage the country's enrichment facilities, actually improved Iran's capability to enrich uranium.
Cisco's Earnings Beat Analyst Estimates
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 16, 2013
The networking vendor's revenue and profits both grew about 5 percent.
IDC: Windows Phone Shipments Surpass BlackBerry
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 16, 2013
Android continues to dominate the smartphone market.
Google's Announcements at I/O
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 16, 2013
The company announced a streaming music service, new ways to send cash, improvements to Google+ and more.
Foxconn's Hon Hai Misses Profit Expectations
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 15, 2013
Apple has been signing contracts with a new supplier, which is bad news for Foxconn.
Report: Dell to Release Disappointing Earnings on Thursday
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 15, 2013
How will the PC maker's latest financial numbers affect buyout talks?
SAP Launches User-Friendly Fiori Apps
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 15, 2013
The new ERP apps take design cues from Apple and Google.
Google Share Price Tops $900 for First Time
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 15, 2013
The company's annual developer conference began on Wednesday.
BlackBerry Messenger Is Coming to iOS and Android
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 14, 2013
Basic functionality will be available by this summer.
Online Video Accounts for Majority of Internet Traffic
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 14, 2013
In North America, Netflix and YouTube together account for about half of all Web traffic.
HP: We Didn't Try to Sell Autonomy to SAP
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 14, 2013
The PC maker is disputing media reports that it tried to sell off the troubled Autonomy software group.
A New Name for Blue: Windows 8.1
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 14, 2013
The next version of Microsoft's operating system will be available as a free update for current Windows 8 users.
Google Shuts Down SMS Search Without Warning
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 13, 2013
The tool let feature phone owners perform simple searches via text message.
Report: AT&T Will Soon Discontinue HTC's 'Facebook Phone'
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 13, 2013
Anonymous sources say sales of the HTC First have been abysmal.
Bing Gets Deeper Facebook Integration
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 13, 2013
Now you can comment on Facebook while using Microsoft's search engine.
Samsung Announces 5G Breakthrough
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 13, 2013
The technology won't be commercially available for at least seven years.
Yammer Revenue Climbs 259%
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 10, 2013
Microsoft is very pleased with its enterprise social networking acquisition.
Icahn, Southeastern Offer a Bid for Dell
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 10, 2013
This buyout deal would keep the company public.
Facebook Home Nears 1 Million Downloads
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 10, 2013
The social network is tweaking the Android app with new features.
Report: Amazon Working on 3D Smartphone
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 10, 2013
The company may also be working on an audio-only gadget.
SAP Customers Are Spending 25% Too Much, Says HCL
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 09, 2013
A survey finds that many global enterprises are running several instances of the software.
Rumor: Microsoft Could Buy Nook
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 09, 2013
The software company is said to be interested in the digital book business, not the e-reader hardware.
Report: Facebook in Talks to Buy Waze for $1 Billion
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 09, 2013
Israeli-based Waze makes social mapping and traffic software.
Microsoft Names Amy Hood as its First Female CFO
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 09, 2013
She'll take over Peter Klein's job effective immediately.
SAP Announces HANA Enterprise Cloud
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 08, 2013
The world's third largest software vendor will offer an SaaS version of its in-memory database.
Stealthy Malware Is Attacking Web Servers
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 08, 2013
The infection has crossed over from Apache servers to Lighttpd and Nginx boxes—and researchers have no idea how it is spreading.
Syria Experiences 20-Hour Internet Blackout
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 08, 2013
Many experts believe the government shut down Internet access.
Microsoft Plans Updates to Office Web Apps
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 08, 2013
Android support and real-time collaborative editing are coming later this year.
Microsoft: Windows Blue Is Coming This Year
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 07, 2013
The software giant is still tight-lipped about the details of the update for Windows 8.
Tech Firms in the Fortune 500
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 07, 2013
Apple broke into the top 10 for the first time ever.
Pentagon Report Accuses China of Cyberattacks
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 07, 2013
China denies any involvement in the attacks.
Hackers Exploit IE 8 Vulnerability to Attack Nuclear Researchers
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 06, 2013
Security experts suspect Chinese hackers are behind attacks on the Department of Labor site and other websites.
EU Sides with Apple in Motorola Patent Fight
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 06, 2013
The European Commission accuses Google-owned Motorola of abusing its market position by seeking an injunction against Apple.
NPD: Tablets Will Outsell Laptops 3-to1 by 2017
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 06, 2013
Even in 2013, manufacturers will likely ship more tablets than notebook PCs.
Dell Buys Enterprise Cloud Vendor Enstratius
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 06, 2013
The PC maker is boosting its cloud computing management capabilities.
Tech Comics: Technical Relief
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published on May 03, 2013
Sometimes projects get cut unexpectedly. Sometimes that's a good thing.
App Store Approaching 50 Billion Downloads
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 03, 2013
One lucky Apple customer will get a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
RIP Hotmail
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 03, 2013
Microsoft has officially completed the transition to Outlook.com.
Study: 86% of Websites Have At Least One Security Vulnerability
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 03, 2013
However, the total number of vulnerabilities is decreasing.
LinkedIn Earnings Soar, But Outlook Disappoints Investors
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 03, 2013
The social network for professionals doubled its revenue and quadrupled earnings.
MapR, Cloudera Release Hadoop Search Tools
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 02, 2013
This week, Cloudera launched its Impala SQL query engine, and MapR included LucidWorks Search software in its M7 release.
EFF Privacy Ratings: Twitter Ranks High, Verizon Low
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 02, 2013
Apple, AT&T, MySpace and Yahoo also scored poorly.
Intel's Next CEO Will Be COO Brian Krzanich
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 02, 2013
In the past, the chip maker has often promoted COOs to CEO.
Facebook Sales Beat Expectations
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 02, 2013
The social network’s mobile ad business improved dramatically in the first quarter of the year.
AWS Launches Cloud Certification Program
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 01, 2013
Amazon will offer certifications for solutions architects, sysops administrators and developers.
IE10 Doubles Share of Browser Market
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 01, 2013
Firefox gained a tiny fraction of market share, while Chrome slipped a slight amount.
Gartner: Half of Organizations Will Adopt BYOD by 2017
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 01, 2013
In the end, only 15 percent of employers won't allow employees to use their own devices, says the research firm.
Jony Ive's Redesign May Delay iOS 7
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on May 01, 2013
The new interface is said to be 'flatter,' more like Windows Phone.
HP Refreshes SDN Products, Creates Converged Systems Unit
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 30, 2013
The company has launched a wide range of new hardware for data centers.
IBM Unveils 'Internet of Things' Appliance
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 30, 2013
MessageSight will manage and route machine-to-machine messages.
Microsoft Azure Now a $1 Billion Business
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 30, 2013
The software maker's cloud computing unit is challenging Amazon Web Services.
BlackBerry CEO Says Tablets Won't Be Around in 5 Years
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 30, 2013
Thorsten Heins believes tablets "are not a good business model."
iPad Takes Top Ranking in J.D. Power Survey
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 29, 2013
The Apple tablet wins its category for the second year in a row.
Facebook's Zuckerberg, Sandberg Get Big Payouts
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 29, 2013
CEO Mark Zuckerberg exercised $2.3 billion worth of stock options last year, but this year, he'll only make $1.
Samsung to Launch Galaxy Tab 3
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 29, 2013
The 7-inch tablet will likely compete against the iPad mini, Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire.
LivingSocial Hack Exposes Data for 50 Million Users
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 29, 2013
The hackers got away with names, email addresses, birthdates and salted, hashed passwords.
Amazon Revenue Increases, Profits Fall
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 26, 2013
The company is pouring money into research and development efforts.
Microsoft Wins Patent Spat Against Motorola
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 26, 2013
The decision will have far-reaching implications for standards-essential patents.
Samsung Announces Record-High Profits
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 26, 2013
Strong smartphone sales led to a 42 percent spike in earnings.
Smartphones Sales Top Feature Phone Sales for First Time Ever
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 26, 2013
IDC says the mobile phone market grew by 4 percent in the first quarter.
IBM CEO Tells Employees to Move Faster
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 25, 2013
Virginia Rometty is also making some changes in Big Blue's executive ranks.
Windows Tablets Gain Market Share at iPad's Expense
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 25, 2013
Tablet sales more than doubled year over year.
LinkedIn Updates Contacts Capabilities
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 25, 2013
The new iOS app and website feature helps aggregate and organize contact data.
EU Asks for Feedback on Google's Antitrust Proposal
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 25, 2013
Do the company's proposed concessions go far enough?
EMC Profits Fall, VMware Lowers Outlook
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 24, 2013
Both companies saw their stock price decline.
Microsoft Reaches Patent Deal with China's ZTE
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 24, 2013
According to Microsoft, it now gets royalties from most Android smartphones sold.
Report: Twitter Testing Two-Factor Authentication
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 24, 2013
A high-profile hack on the AP Twitter feed is prompting a closer look at security.
Despite Strong Sales, Apple Profit Declines
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 24, 2013
Tim Cook hinted that the company would not release any new products until the fall.
Infor Refreshes its Enterprise Application Lineup
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 23, 2013
The company has also announced new cloud computing partnerships.
ITC Sides with Apple in Motorola Patent Case
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 23, 2013
The commission says Motorola's patent on inadvertent touches on a cell phone is invalid.
Report: Most Cyberespionage Originates in China
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 23, 2013
A new Verizon report shows that all businesses are in danger of cyberattacks.
Report: U.S. May Escalate Response to Chinese Cyberespionage
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 22, 2013
The Obama administration is said to be considering sanctions or even cyberattacks of its own.
Anonymous Calls for Web Blackout to Protest CISPA
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 22, 2013
Few websites participated in Monday's "Internet Blackout Day."
Facebook Home Gets Few Downloads, Poor Reviews
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 22, 2013
Only 500,000 people downloaded the Android app in its first ten days of availability.
Germany Fines Google Just $189,000 for Wi-Fi Snooping
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 22, 2013
Regulator says the scandal was one of the biggest privacy violations ever.
SAP Financials Fail to Meet Analyst Expectations
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 19, 2013
Still, the enterprise software firm seems to be doing better than many of its competitors.
Blackstone Drops Bid for Dell
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 19, 2013
Now just two investor groups are vying for the company--one led by Michael Dell and one led by Carl Icahn.
Google Reports Increasing Revenue, Profits
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 19, 2013
The company is still struggling to make money from mobile ads.
Microsoft Profits Climb 19% on Strong Software Sales
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 19, 2013
Revenue fell short of expectations.
Google Chrome Gets Business-Friendly
By Cynthia Harvey | News Article Published on April 18, 2013
One key feature--legacy browser support--will make it easier to use older Web apps.

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