Business IT
HP has quietly been sending a message to long term partner Microsoft, initially by releasing the spectacularly unsuccessful WebOS tablet, then a Chrome notebook and now an Android tablet.
HP bought WebOS from Palm in 2010 for US$1.2B ostensibly to take on iOS and Android. Instead it rapidly proceeded to throw away its investment.
49,531 user records were taken from the ABC web site in an apparent retaliation for their giving Dutch right wing politician Geert Wilders air time.
Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac and Linux has a new zero day Priority 1 critical exploit that can crash your computer and on boot allow a hacker to control the system. It affects all browsers and operating systems.
Orange Business Services has launched a service that enables anyone with an Android or iOS device to participate in videoconferences that use a wide spectrum of vendor equipment: from full telepresence suites to desktop video.
The growth of OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform, over the last year indicates that it is likely to take off this year, according to a member of the board, Tristan Goode.
Four in ten small business owners surveyed by Roy Morgan Research said that the NBN would not help their business. Half of the remainder expected some benefit, the rest were unsure.
SUSE Linux has no plans to enter the mobile or tablet markets, but instead will concentrate on other areas which are part of the integrated Linux market, the president and general manager of the company, Nils Brauckmann, told iTWire yesterday.
Kaspersky Lab has joined the rapidly growing ranks of security technology vendors offerings solutions for managing mobile devices and for securing corporate applications and data loaded onto them.
Telstra is to offer mobile device management (MDM) services from AirWatch, bundled with voice and data services.
