VMware CTO looks back at 'wild ride'
Few IT companies have fundamentally changed the data center like VMware. Yet 13 years into VMware's existence nearly all of its co-founders, including the wife-and-husband team of CEO Diane Greene and...
View ArticleAndroid Trojan records phone calls
A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher.
View ArticleGoogle accuses Microsoft, Oracle, Apple of 'hostile' patent campaign
Google's chief legal officer today accused rivals Microsoft, Oracle and Apple of "a hostile, organized campaign against Android ... waged through bogus patents."
View ArticleMicrosoft incorrectly claims drop in vulnerabilities that allow remote code...
In its latest annual securityreport, Microsoft claimed some progress in fending off vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution.
View ArticleApple to have one OS for Macs and iPads by 2016, analyst predicts
With Microsoft trumpeting the idea that PCs and tablets should run the same operating system and have all the same capabilities, will Apple go down the same road?
View ArticleVMware backpedals on price changes after customer criticism
After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, VMware has boosted the limits on virtual RAM so high that most customers...
View ArticleAmazon struggles to restore data to European cloud customers
Amazon is struggling to restore customer data lost because of an outage at a data center in Ireland, as developers grow increasingly frustrated over the inability to access applications they have built...
View ArticleAfter 30 years, IBM says PC going way of vacuum tube and typewriter
Thirty years ago, IBM created the first personal computer running Microsoft's MS-DOS. Today, IBM and Microsoft seem to have very different views on the future of the PC.
View ArticleThe epic unpopularity of Windows smartphones
Pop quiz: Can you name every smartphone platform that's more popular than Windows Phone 7? Go on. We dare you.
View ArticleMotorola Mobility is Google's biggest acquisition by far
Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility is far and away Google's biggest-ever purchase -- in fact, it's greater than Google's next 10 biggest acquisitions combined and only its third...
View ArticleAndroid licence compliance a complicated matter, conference told
Developers who make apps for Android have a lot more to worry about than just building great software.
View ArticleIBM: The PC is the new mainframe
"The PC is dead!" We've heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple's iPad, but when one of the creators of IBM's first PC added his voice to the chorus, people took notice.
View ArticleHackers could reverse-engineer Microsoft patches to create DoS attacks
The security company Qualys this week demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a Microsoft patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on Windows DNS Server.
View ArticleMicrosoft's 5 biggest weaknesses
For all its success as the world's biggest maker of PC operating systems and office programs, Microsoft's position as the dominant provider of software to consumers is at risk.
View Article2010's IT Companies to Watch: Where are they now?
Last year, Network World identified 25 IT startups poised to develop innovative technology for a new age of cloud computing, virtualization and mobility.
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