Windows 8 surged in December to end the year with almost 12% of the user share of all Windows personal computers, while the destined-for-retirement Windows XP restarted its decline after a two-month pause, a Web analytics company Net Applications said Thursday....
Security vendor FireEye today announced it has acquired privately-held endpoint security incident response vendor Mandiant for $1 billion with $106.5 million in cash....
With the attention given to Twitter's IPO, one might assume that the tech industry is dependent on its success. It isn't. Not even close....
The Stanford marching band, known for its creative and sometimes controversial musical extravaganzas, geeked out during halftime of the 100th Rose Bowl football game on New Year’s Day by collectively forming themselves into the ghostly shape of the Snapchat logo on the field....
Cast your mind back to the late 2000s -- when the iPhone 3G beguiled consumers and the iTunes App Store began shifting users' ideas about how they bought and used software, when Microsoft pros saw nothing but clear skies after Windows 7 cleared out the Windows Vista storm, when green technology was touted as a transformative force in IT....
How three companies are coping -- even thriving -- amid the Android explosion. Insider (registration required)...
Archos is showing two low-cost Android-based smartphones next week at the International CES trade show, including the 45 Helium 4G, which is priced at US$200 without a contract....
2013 was the year vendors got their hybrid cloud strategies out in the open, and 2014 will be the year when customers start using them....
The Snapchat breach that led to millions of user names and phone numbers posted on the Web shows how a startup's priorities of growth and features can sometimes lead to weak security, experts say....
Windows 8/8.1 has topped 10% market share for the first time, apparently picking up a few users from among those who are finally leaving Windows XP behind....