Google is reaching out to help those who just don’t have the time to wade through hundreds of emails each day. The company unveiled Priority Inbox, an application that aims to automatically identify important incoming messages and separate them from more general, tedious emails. “It’s about time,” said Scott Steinberg, president and CEO of Digital [...]
Trend Micro on Tuesday announced an agentless antimalware module for VMware virtual environments in its Deep Security 7.5 product. The company also announced on Tuesday that it’s throwing open its Trend Micro SecureCloud beta to the public. Both products will protect data in the virtual environment as well as in the cloud. Deep Security 7.5 [...]
For decades, U.S. cell carriers have crippled the American mobile ecosystem. Their nickel-and-dime mentality has hobbled user and device manufacturer alike. RIM’s BlackBerry nearly didn’t get off the ground simply because carriers couldn’t see a need to push email nor a way to squeeze more money out of users for the service. Ditto every mobile [...]
Apple first introduced its iconic white iPod in the fall of 2001, then gave it the technology buddy it needed — the iTunes store — in the spring of 2003, which was when I bought my first iPod. It was heavy, a third-generation unit with a built-in spinning hard drive and four buttons across the [...]
Veeam Software on Monday demonstrated its new vPower technology for backing up and restoring virtual machines when disaster strikes. The technology’s capabilities include restoring an entire virtual machine within minutes; recovering individual items from any virtualized operating system; and verifying the recoverability of every backup of every VM. The vPower technology is the backbone of [...]
Like any other winner-take-all industry, the digital music world is not immune to trendy tech solutions that come and go. Hybrid apps, however, are one trend that’s here to stay. Software developers in almost every industry have been meeting their customers’ needs for years with early versions of hybrid app technology and in [...]
This week, Apple is expected to announce a refresh of several iPod products (including the touch) and possibly the Apple TV. The real drama remains with its higher-profile offerings — the iPhone and iPad — and last week, Qualcomm gave a credible look at their compelling future. However, with phones running on Google’s Android platform [...]
So widely acknowledged are the security advantages of Linux that on those rare occasions when a bug is found, it tends to makes quite a splash. Such, in fact, is just what happened recently when news broke of the Linux kernel bug that — it turns out — had been around since 2004. A fix [...]
Move over, Ken Burns. The Civil War has come to the iPad. The $4.99 app, Civil War: America’s Epic Struggle, created by MultiEducator is a cornucopia of information about the war between the states. What’s more, it deftly uses the iPad’s unique features to bring history to life in an engaging and exciting way. The [...]
Last week, Dell cranked its wallet wide open and announced its intention to buy up a company called “3Par” for $1.15 billion. Putting 3Par under the Dell umbrella would buff up the high-end storage and large-scale backup side of its business and give companies like IBM and HP a new competitor to worry about. The [...]