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CES Diary: Scenes from the show floor

CES, as you may have read in this very publication, is big. Like, really, really big. The Las Vegas Convention Center has 3.2 million square feet of floor space, of which CES this year used about two thirds, and it’s easy to get genuinely lost in the vastness of the main halls....

09.01.2014

Governments urged to set up global bounty system to buy security vulnerabilities

The criminal market for software vulnerabilities is now so sophisticated and dangerous that governments should consider setting up a global programme to purchase flaws before they fall into the wrong hands, a researcher has argued....

09.01.2014

AMD prototype PC could be mistaken for an envelope

Even ultrathin ultrabooks are launched with some fanfare, with branding and markings designed to attract the eye. Not so with AMD's new prototype PC. This isn't room for much branding. It's so small I thought it was a nameplate....

09.01.2014

Citrix buys Framehawk to give virtual desktops a boost

Citrix Systems has acquired Framehawk for an undisclosed sum, and will use the company's technology to improve the performance of virtual desktops and applications over wireless networks....

09.01.2014

CIOs and CMOs: Power couple or strange bedfellows?

Marketing departments are shifting significant amounts of their own budgets toward IT-related products and services, independent of what the IT department spends, to the extent that Gartner predicts that by 2017 chief marketing officers (CMO) will spend more money on IT than chief information officers (CIO)....

09.01.2014

VMware taps its R&D chief for vacant CTO role  

VMware has named Ben Fathi as its CTO, filling a prominent executive position that has been vacant for more than a year.  ...

09.01.2014

Riverbed may go private in a $3 billion deal

Investment company Elliott Management has offered to buy WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technology for just over $3 billion while giving Riverbed a chance to entertain higher bids....

09.01.2014

Intel announces death of McAfee brand. Will it be that simple?

Three and a half years after Intel acquired McAfee, the chip giant looks set to ditch the famous brand that still bears the name of its colourful founder, John McAfee....

09.01.2014

CES 2015: The shape of consumer technology to come

What happens once your gadget grabs the headlines and makes it big? Once the Kickstarter succeeds? Once celebrities start getting their pictures taken with your gadget?...

09.01.2014

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08.01.2014

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