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The most recent update of the Google Chrome browser adds a bit more speed. The newest update also patches 24 security vulnerabilities that Google engineers and other security specialists had detected in the last version of Chrome.More significant than the ...
In popular mythology, young adults are all too careless about their social media use and resentful of the intrusion of brands and advertising into their online social worlds. The reality may be considerably different. One panel discussion suggests that Generation ...
Google Play, Google's Android app store, will now allow all app developers to respond to user comments. This option, previously available only for "top developers," has now been expanded to all developers with apps in the store.For IT at midsize ...
Chipmaker AMD is giving Microsoft a vote of confidence. As it plans its strategy for the fast-growing tablet market, AMD is not looking at low-priced Android tablets. Instead it is placing its focus on high-end tablets running Windows 8.This is ...
It may seem paradoxical, but one analyst argues that higher PC prices would be good news for Windows 8. Microsoft's latest operating system release has faced a tough debut. Opinions about its touch-screen user interface (UI) run the gamut from ...
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is by name focused on consumers, not on the midsize business market. However, at a time when so many commentators are eager to write the obituary for the PC, the latest Intel PC offerings have ...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has - as the name suggests - traditionally been all about gadgets. This year, however, increasing focus at CES 2013 is going not to the gadgets themselves but to the apps and services that ...
And is business ready for the iPad? After all the breathless talk about the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, this is the year it may really start to happen on a big scale. Midsize businesses, along with other firms, are taking a ...
A year ago, many observers were calling Ultrabooks--ultrathin laptops - the next big thing in the PC world. Sales, however, fell far short of the hype, as consumers flocked to less expensive tablet devices instead. Now some analysts are calling ...
The Oracle Java platform is showing signs of a strong 2013, after shaking off security struggles it faced last year. On tap are a host of upgrades, ranging from JavaScript support to cloud-oriented features. For the IT community at midsize ...
Google Chrome is an operating system (OS). So is Google-developed Android. This raises the question of why Google is developing two operating systems. This, in turn, raises another question: What are the implications for the IT community at midsize firms?Google ...
Sales of Windows 8 laptops are slipping. At the same time, some vendors are having trouble keeping touch-screen Windows PCs in stock. Apparently they are flying off the shelves. So what is behind these seemingly contradictory signals?The personal computing market ...
In railroading practice, the signal that research firm Gartner is sending about cloud storage would be a yellow light: Proceed but with caution. According to Gartner, the cloud has become a viable alternative to traditional on-premises data storage. Caution is ...
A report by a global panel of IT security specialists has described cloud security as the leading "disruptive" technology of 2013. Midsize firms and other organizations are in a rush to the cloud. The result: An ongoing challenge for security ...
For PC users, a choice of browsers has long been taken for granted. In the mobile environment, however, browsers tend to be "baked in." Alternative mobile browser options, however, are starting to appear. In the course of the next year, ...
Online figures for Windows 8 usage in 2012 show that it is lagging far behind Windows 7. At the outset it lagged even behind Vista. But the same data also hint that the latest version of Microsoft Windows might be ...
Is it too early for the tech world to start breathlessly speculating about the next iPhone? Apparently not, if developer logs are any indication. A tantalizing bit of code that turned up in one--"iPhone 6,1"--suggests that Apple is already at ...
Sometime in the coming weeks or months, Google Glass, the company's virtual-reality eyeglasses, could be headed for a developer near you. For the IT community at midsize firms the implications are uncertain - but they could be sweeping.The significance of ...
At one time, the idea of a product development life cycle, let alone product lifecycle management (PLM) was unknown. Product innovation was too rare and haphazard to evoke an organized process.Needless to say this has changed. Product innovations are the ...
Microsoft has issued a fix for a "zero-day" vulnerability in the Internet Explorer browser. A zero-day vulnerability is one that was previously undetected, and for which, therefore, no protective steps have yet been taken. The recently discovered vulnerability could have ...