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Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon Web Services cloud: The battle is on

With news this week that Google Compute Engine cloud is now generally available, the battle in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market has hit a new level. The biggest question is: Can Google give the kingpin of the public IaaS market, Amazon Web Services (AWS), a run for its money?...

05.12.2013

Windows 8 Update: China prefers to stick with dying Windows XP rather than upgrade

China says it wants Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP because that will help it in its fight to stop proliferation of pirated Microsoft software....

05.12.2013

Online shopping boom blurs the lines between Black Friday and Cyber Monday

As more people do their holiday shopping online, either at home or from a mobile device, the traditional Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days are losing their distinction....

05.12.2013

NSA spying scandal accelerating China's push to favor local tech vendors

While China's demand for electronics continues to soar, the tech services market may be shrinking for U.S. enterprise vendors. Security concerns over U.S. secret surveillance are giving the Chinese government and local companies more reason to trust domestic vendors, according to industry experts....

05.12.2013

Ultrabook, laptop, hybrid or Chromebook? How to pick the best portable PC

Just a few years back, buying a laptop was as easy as walking into a Wal-Mart or Best Buy, strolling past the netbooks, plunking down a few hundred bucks on a Windows machine with a trackpad that didn't completely suck, and coming home, if not happy, at least with a notebook that could get the job done....

05.12.2013

Bleak, bleaker, bleakest: Latest PC market forecast projects historic 10% downturn

This year will go down as the PC industry's largest contraction, research firm IDC said, with global shipments dropping by double digits and little relief in sight....

05.12.2013

Yahoo acquires mobile video app startup Ptch

Yahoo has acquired Ptch, the startup behind a mobile app that allowed users to combine photos and video on their phones into movies, and the service will shut down by January....

05.12.2013

Mobile App Revolution Rivals Industrial Revolution

Based on comments from experts at this week's AppNation event, to say mobile apps are a disruptive technology is an understatement....

05.12.2013

Media tablet showdown: Retina iPad Mini faces newly beefed-up challengers

The Retina iPad Mini, Kindle Fire HDX, Nexus 7, Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 go toe to toe in InfoWorld Test Center's review...

05.12.2013

Fibre Channel hits key landmark on the way to 32Gbps

Faster SANs are on the horizon as the next Fibre Channel specification, calling for 32G bps (bits per second), nears publication....

05.12.2013

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