Less than a week after reporting that Microsoft’s enterprise cloud business is currently on an annual run rate of $6.3 billion, CEO Satya Nadella says the company’s goal is to increase that figure to $20 billion by fiscal year 2018. “That’s the cloud that we want to build,” he said …
The president of one of the world’s biggest computer security vendors says he is skeptical that a stronger government role in cyberdefense will abate the growing number of attacks. In an interview with IDG News Service, Amit Yoran, president of RSA, also rejected calls by U.S. intelligence chiefs for industry …
The president of one of the world’s biggest computer security vendors says he is skeptical that a stronger government role in cyberdefense will abate the growing number of attacks. In an interview with IDG News Service, Amit Yoran, president of RSA, also rejected calls by U.S. intelligence chiefs for industry …
Microsoft is supporting cross-platform development like never before, introducing tools to port iOS and Android apps to Windows and allow software to run across multiple form factors, from smart phones to virtual reality headsets. The goal is to get 1 billion copies of Windows 10 on devices within the next …
Apple Watch production has been hampered by defective components from a supplier, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Taptic engines produced by one supplier, AAC Technologies, in Shenzhen, China, began to fail reliability tests after Apple ramped up watch production in February, the Journal said, citing unnamed sources. The …
A report that Salesforce.com is entertaining takeover offers whipped up a storm of speculation Wednesday, as analysts and other observers mulled the possibility and what it could mean for the enterprise software market. “It would require a massive deal for that to happen,” noted Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst …
Microsoft says its HoloLens head-mounted computer can bring robots and gadgets based on Raspberry Pi 2 to life as they are being developed. HoloLens is an augmented-reality headset that lets users interact with 3D objects that show up as floating images, much like holographic projections. By blending computer-generated images with …
Microsoft is showing even more cross-platform love as they release a new code editing program called Visual Studio Code – available for download today on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Not to be confused with Visual Studio, the world class IDE, Visual Studio Code is more Sublime Text or Notepad++ than full …
U.S. lawmakers are skeptical of an FBI request for Congress to mandate encryption workarounds in smartphones, with critics saying Wednesday that back doors would create new vulnerabilities that bad guys can exploit. It’s currently impossible for smartphone makers to build in back doors that allow law enforcement agencies access to …
Secret, an app for anonymous posts that initially attracted buzz but drew criticism after a redesign, is shutting down. The company, also named Secret, formally launched its app last year and is said to have raised between US$33 million and $35 million in funding. “After a lot of thought and …
A longtime concern about Windows Phone has been a shortage of apps in the Windows Store, but Microsoft on Wednesday took a big step to change things. Developers of iOS and Android apps will be able to bring their apps and games to Windows 10, Microsoft’s next operating system that’s …
Airbnb has developed a new app customized for iOS and Android tablets in an attempt to give those users a better way to browse its million-plus home rental listings than with the devices’ web browsers. The free app, to be released Wednesday, lets users navigate its content as if they …
The dozens of deaths that marred the recent Nigerian elections would be considered shocking by the standards of most developed nations. Compared to past elections, however, the violence this time around was limited, and many observers say social media and technology such as biometric card readers played a big role …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules to require companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the financial performance of a company. The proposed rules, which would implement a requirement mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, would provide greater transparency and allow shareholders to be better …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules governing the application of certain requirements to security-based swap transactions connected with a non-U.S. person’s dealing activity in the United States. The rules require a non-U.S. company that uses U.S. personnel to arrange, negotiate, or execute a transaction in connection …
Salesforce is working with financial advisors to field bids after being approached by an unnamed party about a possible buyout, according to a Bloomberg report. The cloud-based CRM (customer relationship managment) company has a market value of more than $40 billion. It could be the largest software acquisition ever, according …
PC prices have enjoyed record lows for many years now, but buyers might have to shell out a few more bucks for their desired laptop or desktop later this year. Research firm Gartner is sounding the alarm that PC prices might go up later this year due to recent currency …
Dozens of American Airlines flights were delayed on Tuesday after “a faulty iPad navigation app” caused the tablets to crash. Despite Boeing 737 pilots’ claims of all 737’s being grounded and a system-wide outage, American Airlines spokesperson Casey Norton said, “Initial reports on social media of a system-wide problem affecting a …
The confluence of mobile, social and big data trends are driving a tectonic transformation — and businesses that do not change with these trends will be left behind, analysts from research firm IDC said at Interop. IDC says the so-called third platform, which includes those mega-trends of cloud and mobile …
Real-time messaging has become a hot area in enterprise software thanks in part to the hype surrounding Slack, and Jive Software has now joined the fray. Announced in February, Jive Chime has now graduated from beta and is available for use on desktops and mobile devices. Jive Chime aims to …
Microsoft today named its new browser Microsoft Edge (ME) after using the “Project Spartan” code name for the last several three months. Edge will be the successor to Internet Explorer (IE), particularly IE11, and will be the default browser in Windows 10 on all devices, from PCs to smartphones. IE11, …
IBM scientists say they have made two critical advances in an industrywide effort to build a practical quantum computer, shaving years off the time expected to have a working system. “This is critical,” said Jay Gambetta, IBM’s manager of theory of quantum computing. “The field has got a lot more …
While marketers want to engage customers in a unified way, disconnected systems often make that difficult. Adobe and Microsoft aim to tackle that problem by integrating Adobe’s Marketing Cloud with Dynamics CRM. The goal of the integration, announced Wednesday at Adobe Summit in London, is to let companies execute marketing …
Microsoft is holding a conference this week called Build 2015, which is intended to educate and inform developers. During an early keynote, the tech giant revealed the name of their new browser. It’s going to be called Microsoft Edge. For anyone who loved the logo for IE (all five of …
Some American Airlines passengers faced lengthy flight delays on Tuesday after a faulty iPad navigation app used by the carriers’ pilots and co-pilots caused the tablets to crash. “Some flights are experiencing an issue with a software application on iPads,” American Airlines said on Twitter to a passenger whose flight …
Microsoft releases .NET tool for Linux Microsoft and Linux have always had an…er…uneasy relationship. But now the company has released a Visual Studio Code tool for Linux that should make it easy to develop .NET code. You can download Visual Studio Code for Linux right now. Owen Williams reports for …