Software

Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users

What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has concluded.

By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2012 07:12

Tags: software, social networking, social media, Languages and standards, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook, application development

Location-based services: Are they there yet?

Mobile users are more connected to the Internet than ever. As of December 2011, ComScore estimated that there are 97.9 million smartphone users in the US - nearly a third of the total population.

By Brian Proffitt | 03 May, 2012 23:28

Tags: yelp, Web 2.0 and Web Apps, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile and Wireless, GPS, Google, Facebook, consumer electronics, ComScore

The future of the $200 tablet

Spending $150 to $200 on a tablet won't get you much these days: In most cases, you're looking at an off-brand Android product with a single-core processor, barely any RAM and a low-resolution, low-quality display. Depending on the device, you might not even have access to Google's app market or other basic services -- and while that approach may work with retailer-backed, limited-use products like Amazon's Kindle Fire, when it comes to more traditional Androidtablets, it doesn't usually lead to the best user experience.

By JR Raphael | 26 April, 2012 21:18

Tags: Google, hardware, hardware systems, Mobile and Wireless

From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

IT as we know it is over.

By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

Tags: cloud computing, Configuration/maintenance, consumerization, Data Center, hardware systems, Harvard Business Review, infrastructure management, internet, mainframe, management, Nemertes Research, networking, Nicholas Carr, outsourcing, services, wireless

Catching the eye of Google

Google's man in charge of acquisitions - vice-president of corporate development David Lawee - was in Auckland recently, but he was keeping quiet on whether any Kiwi businesses were on his radar.

By Sarah Putt | 17 April, 2012 03:33

Tags: business issues, Google

In depth: Nokia's great Windows Phone hope - Beauty without brawn

Nokia may sell more cellphones than any other company in the world, but it's been all but excluded from the United States for years -- and it's seen its global sales steadily shrink as the iPhone and Android smartphones have become the darlings of buyers in an increasing number of countries. Nokia's relevance has been fast receding, and its Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo efforts became a pattern of failure for a company that just didn't get it. In response, a year ago, Nokia bet its future largely on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

By Galen Gruman | 10 April, 2012 20:13

Tags: Apple, Computer Hardware, consumer electronics, consumerization of IT, Google, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile OSes, mobile technology, Nokia, smartphones, symbian, Windows Phone

Is there a 'best' way to set up your private Cloud storage?

Given that Cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private Cloud almost always require different approaches.

By Jon Gold | 28 March, 2012 06:24

Tags: cloud computing, cloud storage, internet, private cloud, private cloud storage

Microsoft: Don't hate IE 10

Microsoft says its latest version of Internet Explorer clears out a lot of clutter and creates a more immersive browser experience when paired with Windows 8's touch environment, and that it can be navigated by mouse and keyboard as well, although from the sounds of it not as elegantly.

By Tim Greene | 15 March, 2012 06:03

Tags: applications, browsers, Microsoft, software

The big promise of big data

For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

Tags: applications, cloudera, data management, data mining, MapR, oracle, software

Mobile apps: The IT pro's new power tools

Think the mobile revolution is all about word games and social networking apps? Think again. Heavy-duty apps for IT pros have arrived on mobile platforms and they're quickly changing the face of IT systems management.

By Robert L. Scheier | 12 March, 2012 21:07

Tags: Android, applications, Blackberry, Data Center, hardware systems, iOS, iPad, iPhone, it management, it strategy, mobile, mobile apps, Mobile OSes, mobile technology, Mobile Tools, smartphones, software, tablets, tech support, Telecommunication

The industrial robot revolution

One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.

By Sandra Gittlen | 20 February, 2012 22:25

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, health care, industry verticals, manufacturing, NASA, robots

In depth: Hands on with Apple's new OS X, Mountain Lion

Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? Apple has announced that it will release a new version of OS X—Mountain Lion—this summer, just a year after the release of OS X Lion.

By Jason Snell | 17 February, 2012 01:38

Tags: Apple, Mac OS, operating systems, software

Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 January, 2012 08:36

Tags: comcast, Facebook, Google, Internet Society, IPv6, IPv6 Launch, LAN & WAN, Leslie Daigle, networking

9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012

While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out for their potential to deliver game-changing innovations in a wide array of fields, including Cloud computing, enterprise search, and mobile application development. (These are in addition to seven hot Cloud companies and seven storage companies to watch that we highlighted last year.)

By Brad Reed | 11 January, 2012 07:32

Tags: business issues, CloudBees, collaboration, Lightspeed Venture Partners

10 must-have tools for Cloud power users

For many of us, the Cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practically our whole lives - photos, documents, contacts and more - are online. So isn't it time to take control?

By JR Raphael | 08 December, 2011 03:06

Tags: apps, cloud computing, Google, internet

Google's Ice Cream Sandwich - a new era for Android

Google's Android 4.0 operating system is more than just another upgrade.

By JR Raphael | 23 November, 2011 03:18

Tags: Android OS, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, mobile solutions, mobility

Technology argument 5: iPad vs. everything else

We debated whether to call this piece "iPad vs. Motorola Xoom" or "iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" or whatever the Android tablet du jour is. But really it's still "iPad vs Everything Else."

By John Cox | 02 November, 2011 21:33

Tags: Android tablets, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, Google, hardware systems, ipad3, Motorola, networking, Palm, pc, tablets, wireless

Insight: Why Microsoft's vision of the future will really happen

Microsoft released a video in 2008 and another one this week that together predict the sleek, wireless, connected gadgets we'll all enjoy by the year 2019.

By Mike Elgan | 01 November, 2011 02:32

Tags: consumer electronics, hardware systems, Microsoft

Are you ready for networking in the cloud?

The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications.

By Jim Metzler | 31 October, 2011 21:48

Tags: cloud computing, internet, SaaS, Software as a service

Windows XP: Pros and cons of not upgrading

Windows XP users, your favorite operating system is a decade old, and if you're still using it, you're not cool anymore, at least according to Microsoft. That's the software giant's recent take on its aging OS, which is still more popular than Vista or Windows 7 worldwide. Microsoft is hoping the final cadre of users hanging on to XP will start to dump it and move to the more modern Windows 7.

By Ian Paul | 27 October, 2011 04:41

Tags: Microsoft, operating systems, software, windows xp

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