2012

Cloud

AMD Explores Strategic Options – Report

Chip maker AMD is reportedly considering its strategic options including a possible patent sell-off

Mobility

BlackBerry Messenger 7 Adds Free Voice Calls Over Wi-Fi

BBM7 adds BBM Voice to popular instant messaging service ahead of BlackBerry 10 release

Mac

Nokia Maps To Launch On iOS With ‘Here’ application

Nokia Maps rebrands as 'Here', promises applications for iPhone, Android and Firefox OS

Cloud

Cisco Beats Expectations As Data Centre Move Pays Off

Cisco has posted positive financials, with a fall in switch and router sales offset by its data centre strategy

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Microsoft Issues Critical Updates In November Patch Tuesday

The November Patch Tuesday update fixes nineteen security flaws across a number of Microsoft products

Cloud

Big Switch Networks Joins SDN Gold Rush

A startup has joined the SDN data centre trend by offering its own software-defined network products

Microsoft Offers Up IE10 Preview For Windows 7

Microsoft has made available a preview of its Internet Explorer 10 browser for Windows 7 users

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Mac

Apple Pays SBB £13m In Swiss Railway Clock Licensing Deal – Report

Apple reportedly pays 20m Swiss Francs to use the Swiss Railway Clock in iOS6

Regulation

Neelie Kroes Says EC Computers Hacked In Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan denies claims from European Commissioner that EC laptops were hacked in Baku

Marketing

Microsoft Google Motorola Patent Trial Could Reveal Financial Details

Judge rules that certain financial details must be made public if necessary

Marketing

MPs Grill Executives Over ‘Immoral’ Google, Amazon Tax Arrangements

Public Accounts Committee lambasts Amazon and Google over the low tax they pay in the UK

EE 4G Advert Referred To Trading Standards

Operator says EE 4G advert placed in store were a mistake, but says it will continue to advertise nationally

Security

McAfee Founder Wanted For Murder Questioning

John McAfee is on the run from police and is wanted for questioning for the murder of a neighbour and fellow American expatriate

Regulation

Businesses Consider Abusing ICO Data Breach Fine ‘Loophole’

Companies can avoid a data breach fine if they pretend they didn't know about the problem, TechWeekEurope understands

Cloud

Steven Sinofsky Departs Microsoft After Windows 8 Launch

Windows president Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft in a surprise departure

Data Storage

DataDirect Adds Intelligence To Hybrid Flash Storage

DataDirect's SFA7700 supports both NAND flash and spinning disk storage volumes, with the ability to 'anticipate and optimise' workloads

Cloud

Does Intel Care If Itanium Is Squeezed Out By Xeon?

Itanium just got an upgrade, but its future looks uncertain with the continued growth of Intel's Xeon, says Chris Preimesberger

Cloud

Intel Launches Xeon Phi Coprocessors

Intel has announced the first of its new Xeon Phi chips, with which it is looking to bring down power consumption in scientific research supercomputing

Cloud

Microsoft Spurs Azure Development With Training Camps

Microsoft's 23 day-long training camps around the US trained developers how to use the Windows Azure application platform for creating cloud applications

Cloud

Study Shows Virtual Machine Spying Attack

A malicious virtual machine could get around security barriers to read significant data from a targeted VM running on the same platform, according to an academic research paper