President Obama and presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) this week announced separate initiatives to help low- and middle-income Americans afford solar power. The White House announced an initiative to increase access to solar energy for all Americans, especially those in low and moderate-income communities, while expanding opportunities to join …
IT service providers placed significant focus on staffing up their offshore delivery centers during the previous decade. However, over the past five years, outsourcing providers have revved their U.S. domestic delivery center activity, according to recent research by outsourcing consultancy and research firm Everest Group. It’s interesting to note that …
One of four co-founders, Parker Harris has been a quietly powerful force in the success of Salesforce.com, which has grown to nearly $7 billion and earned a top spot in the CRM market since launching in 1999. Harris leads all product development, data centers and technology for the cloud company …
Skittish about the impact of Windows 10, including the free upgrade-from-Windows-7-and-8.1 offer, computer makers drew down inventories and sent PC shipments plummeting in the June quarter, IDC said today. The quarter was among the worst ever for personal computers, according to the research firm, which estimated the year-over-year contraction at …
NEW YORK — Amazon Web Services continues to pile on the new features and services for its enterprise customers. Speaking to a keynote audience in New York City today at its AWS Cloud Summit, Werner Vogels, chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon.com, said enterprises are beginning to look …
The director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management resigned on Friday, a day after her agency announced hackers had stolen information on 21.5 million current, former and prospective government employees and their families. Katherine Archuleta said she had informed President Barack Obama of her plans to step down, and …
Nope. Hell hasn’t frozen over, nor has winter arrived yet. But Microsoft has emerged as the ‘leading’ sponsor of the OpenBSD Foundation, becoming the first ‘Gold’ contributor for 2015. OpenBSD Journal wrote: “The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to announce that Microsoft has made a significant financial donation to the Foundation. …
The director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management resigned on Friday, a day after her agency announced hackers had stolen information on 21.5 million current, former and prospective government employees and their families. Katherine Archuleta said she had informed President Barack Obama of her plans to step down, and …
How many ways can Microsoft fail with mobile technology? There was Windows CE — a failure. Windows Mobile — a flop. And, more recently, Windows Phone — a fiasco. Do we begin to see a pattern here? Failure, flop, fiasco — Microsoft has earned a big F. Let’s take a …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may require the country’s telecom carriers to warn residential and business customers about their plans to abandon old, copper telephone networks for IP-based systems. A proposal from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler would also require telecom carriers retiring their copper networks to offer customers the option …
A push to allow Internet voting in elections is growing stronger along with advances in the underlying technology, but systems are not yet secure enough to use with relative certainty that the vote counts will be accurate, according to a new report. Still, while “no existing system guarantees voter privacy …
A push to allow Internet voting in elections is growing stronger along with advances in the underlying technology, but systems are not yet secure enough to use with relative certainty that the vote counts will be accurate, according to a new report. Still, while “no existing system guarantees voter privacy …
Microsoft will continue to manufacture smartphones for its Windows 10 Mobile operating system, but the company has thrown in the towel on the devices strategy pursued by its former CEO and will probably give up entirely unless Windows 10 reverses years of missteps in mobile, analysts said. After Microsoft wrote …
Microsoft’s Power BI data visualization and business intelligence service will be generally available in two weeks, marking a major milestone for the new product. The launch will bring a smorgasbord of new features, including new chart types, a refreshed desktop application and support for collaborating in groups on shared sets …
Microsoft’s Power BI data visualization and business intelligence service will be generally available in two weeks, marking a major milestone for the new product. The launch will bring a smorgasbord of new features, including new chart types, a refreshed desktop application and support for collaborating in groups on shared sets …
As government officials continue to plea the case against strong encryption, a group of high-profile international security experts have published a paper arguing that allowing government agents special access to communications would have detrimental effects on personal privacy, enterprise security, and our national economy. “In the long run, what would …
In a previous age, necessity may have been the mother of invention. But today, where time has become our most precious commodity, it is convenience that is now driving our greatest innovations. If time is the new standard of currency and convenience the measure of its worth, the big question …
VMware released patches for serious vulnerabilities in several of its products that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation on the host OS and denial of service. VMware Workstation and Horizon View Client for the Windows platform had multiple memory manipulation issues that could allow a guest to execute …
A large majority of the European Parliament took a strong stance against geoblocking of online content in a report calling on the European Commission to reform E.U. copyright laws. The E.U.’s copyright rules, adopted in 2001, are in need of an urgent overhaul. The Parliament’s report, adopted with 445 votes …
The Apple iOS 9 download is now free, but don’t forget that it’s still test software. Yes, Cupertino opened the beta program to non-developers, so you no longer need to fork over $99 to get the latest software on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. But do heed the dire …
Power to the people: Facebook news feed tool lets users prioritize posts Despite all that it knows about us, Facebook has conceded that it can’t do such a good job of guessing which items we’d like to see in our news feeds. It’s adding a tool that will let users …
IDC and Gartner have published their latest PC market figures, but these don’t reflect the true state of the technology industry because they fail to include smartphone and tablet sales **. This lack means the figures are little more than anachronistic reminders that provide only small insight into the future of …
Google reduced spam reaching inboxes to a fraction of a percent, but in the process sometimes misclassifies bulk-mailed messages like monthly statements and ticket receipts. It’s a big problem for large bulk emailers of legitimate messages. To deal with it, Google created a toolset to help those mailers figure out …
This IT pilot fish’s co-worker is very protective of his mobile phone — which guarantees that everyone else in the office is looking for an opportunity to make him just a little crazy. And that opportunity comes one day when he leaves the phone unattended on his desk, and someone …
AOL, back on the market Image by REUTERS/Brendan McDermid An unexpected merger between AOL and a storied incumbent? You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d gone back to the turn of the century, but no, that deal was completed last month. Whatever the reasons behind the AOL-Verizon merger — for all …