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Posted April 26, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
Ruggedized variants of Samsung's Galaxy S4 and Galaxy-family of tablets are set to arrive this summer, claims an anonymous source in contact with the Wall Street Journal. The contact claims a seven-inch and 10.1-inch tablet will hit the market first…
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Posted April 15, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
After compiling SEC data filed by 410 companies containing 2,050 executives, Bloomberg Businessweek reveals that Apple dominates the S&P index's top five best-paid executives with four of its own. Together, Apple's fantastic four raked in nearly $300 million dollars in…
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Posted April 11, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Software
Gary Kovacs intends to step down from his post as Mozilla's CEO, the foundation's blog reveals. Kovacs is just one of a number of leadership changes being made at Mozilla as it begins "gearing up for the next chapter" --…
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Posted April 8, 2013, 2:44 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
The DS2413+ is Synology's newest twelve-bay DiskStation NAS for small to medium sized businesses who need loads of storage. Along with supporting up to 48TB worth of drives out of the box, the DS2413+ can be paired with the company's DX1211 expansion enclosure that houses an extra 12 drives, doubling the maximum storage capacity of the base unit to a whopping 96TB.

We should also make a quick note before you get to the end and scoff at the price: the DS2413+ isn't for average home users. It's retailing for $1,700 without drives or the 12-bay expansion. With that in mind, let's see what the DS2413+'s upgrades offer.
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Posted March 14, 2013, 12:54 AM by Intel | Filed in Industry News
As one of the most impactful technology trends of the last 20 years, consumerization is having significant impact on IT organizations right around the globe.
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Posted February 6, 2013, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
In 2011, former CEO Leo Apotheker proposed jettisoning HP's iconic PC business -- a division which suffers from notoriously anemic profit margins -- in an attempt to return HP to greater profitability. Although Apotheker's successor, Meg Whitman, canned that idea,…
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Posted December 12, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Slowly but surely, it appears Amazon is losing the battle against collecting state sales tax on purchases made through its website. Massachusetts is the latest in a growing list of places where Amazon must charge sales tax on the goods it…
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Posted November 16, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
With yesterday's report of sagging consumer PC sales, Dell said it's looking to other markets (i.e. enterprise and IT services) to help pick up the slack. Dell has talked about transitioning from consumer PCs to IT business services in the past,…
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Posted July 3, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Amazon may be planning to provide its own in-house mapping solution, following a trail recently blazed by Apple. According to GigaOm, the online retailer has snatched UpNext, a four-person, 3D mapping company. Details regarding the deal are being kept quiet…
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Posted June 29, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
Mac OS X on a tablet. Sound interesting? Los Angeles-based startup Modbook Inc. hopes you'll think so. The company intends to release its own tablet running Mac OS X, but there's one detail which makes these tablets especially fascinating: the…
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Posted June 26, 2012, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
Seagate has announced a partnership with DensBits, an Israeli company whose "revolutionary" memory controller design may prove useful for upcoming solid-state drives. Seagate made an undisclosed investment in DensBits, stating its plans to improve both consumer and business-class products with…
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Posted May 13, 2012, 9:16 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Scott Thompson has resigned as the CEO of Yahoo after the Internet company discovered that he had falsified information on his resume with regards to his educational background. The company has since named Ross Levinsohn as interim CEO, although his…
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Posted April 12, 2012, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, Industry News
Following a poor fiscal year, Sony has come forward with a set of initiatives designed to revitalize the sluggish business. The “One Sony” strategy will focus on games, mobile and digital imaging in an effort to generate roughly 70 percent…
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Posted March 16, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
Earlier this week, PayPal mentioned plans to compete against Square, Intuit and other credit card payment processors. The company aims to become yet another way to process credit cards on the go for small businesses, offering a mobile card reader and…
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