Datamation Staff

eWeek: Chip maker AMD has announced quarterly revenues of $1.69 billion, a 4 percent year-over-year increase. Profits for the period totaled $97 million, a marked improvement over the previous year when the company turned in a $118 million loss. Much of the credit for the good earnings report goes to excellent sales of notebook processors, […]

Technologizer: The popular file-storing and -sharing service Dropbox is rolling out a new pricing option aimed at the small business market. Dropbox for Teams offers unlimited storage (with 1TB initially allocated) for up to five users at $795 a year. The price may seem steep, but Dropbox’s 100GB accounts run $239.88 a year, making the […]

BusinessWeek: New HP CEO Meg Whitman is reversing her predecessor Leo Apotheker’s plans to spin off the company’s PC division. She also said that she may revisit HP’s involvement in the tablet PC market. The PC division accounts for about one third of HP’s revenue. Whitman is working very closely with HP Chairman Ray Lane. […]

InformationWeek: In its quarterly financial report, Samsung revealed that its smartphone sales quadrupled since last year. The company sold 28 million smartphones in the most recent quarter, up from 7 million during the same quarter last year. By comparison, Apple sold only 17 million iPhones in its most recent quarter. Samsung now controls 23.8 percent […]

InfoWorld: Processor maker ARM today unveiled its new ARMv8 chips, which are based on 64-bit architecture. Until now, ARM has concentrated on the mobile market, making low-power processors for tablets and smartphones. The new 64-bit chips will allow the company’s chips to be used in enterprise servers and workstations, where Intel and AMD control the […]

Wired Webmonkey: Mozilla has released a new version of its open source Firefox Web browser that features Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The new browser uses Bing as the default for searches as well as the default home page. The official version of Firefox will continue to feature Google search. Mozilla also offers other versions of […]

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, who is presiding in the Oracle-Google Android patent dispute, has said that the trial will not begin until next year. He also said that he expects the trial to take a long time and that jurors in the case will likely consider it a […]

Bloomberg: Next month, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will release a report which reveals that hackers associated with the Chinese military may have gained access to U.S. observation satellites on four separate occasions during 2007 and 2008. “Such interference poses numerous potential threats, particularly if achieved against satellites with more sensitive functions,” according […]

The Telegraph: Social networking giant Facebook has announced that it will build its first non-U.S. data center in Luleå in northern Sweden. The region’s cold temperatures (averaging 35.6F) are a key draw, as the facility will be able to use outside air for cooling, reducing energy use. However, even with the benefit of the low […]

InformationWeek: IBM has launched a new cloud-based product for distributed data-processing and analysis known as InfoSphere BigInsights. Based on Hadoop, InfoSphere BigInsights is available now through the company’s SmartCloud Enterprise cloud computing platform. In addition to Hadoop, the package also includes the Pig programming language, connectors to IBM’s DB2 database and IBM BigSheets. Oracle and […]

eWeek: IT jobs may be increasing, but IT workers don’t have a lot of confidence in the overall economy, says a new report from IT staffing firm Technisource. The company’s IT Employee Confidence Index declined from 56.2 to 47.3 in the most recent quarter, a two-year low. Only 13 percent of IT workers believe the […]

PCMag: The beleaguered BlackBerry maker RIM had more bad news for fans today: the company is postponing the release of the next version of the operating system for its PlayBook tablet, and when the OS does ship, it will not include a native version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). “As much as we’d love to have […]