Tablets driving DRAM growth, but PCs still reign supreme

Sep 17, 2012 06:52 pm | PC Worldby Caitlin McGarry A Friday report on how mobile devices are now consuming the majority of the DRAM market sparked bloggy commentary declaring the decline of the PC. The report included provocative numbers, but the statistics deserve a reality check: IHS analyst Clifford Leimbach said DRAM shipments for PCs are in fact still growing--just at a slower pace than in years past.IHS iSuppli's DRAM...

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The Week in iPhone Cases: Take 5, part 3

Sep 17, 2012 06:35 pm | Macworld.comby Marco Tabini Were you lucky enough to get your order in for your iPhone 5 in time for delivery on September 21? Or are you planning on waiting in line at the Apple Store, so you can revel in the glory of the iPhone 5 with other owners? Regardless of how you plan to acquire your new iPhone 5, you won't have a difficult time finding a case for it. Last week, we had not one, but two installments...

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AMD CFO Seifert resigns

Sep 17, 2012 05:49 pm | IDG News ServiceThe chip maker is now hunting for a replacement by Agam Shah Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, has resigned from his post and that a hunt is on for his replacement.AMD has appointed Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and corporate controller, as interim CFO until a replacement is found. Seifert will stay on at the chip maker until...

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Oracle buys SelectMinds to boost capabilities gained from Taleo acquisition

Sep 17, 2012 05:36 pm | IDG News ServiceOracle is battling SAP and now IBM in the HCM (human capital management) software market by Chris Kanaracus Oracle on Monday said it has agreed to acquire SelectMinds, a maker of "social talent sourcing software," in a bid to flesh out the capabilities it gained through this year's US$1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo.Terms of the deal, which is expected to close this year, were not...

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Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium to cost $99.99 annually per subscription

Sep 17, 2012 05:33 pm | IDG News ServiceOffice 365 Small Business Premium will cost $149.99 per employee, per year by Juan Carlos Perez Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription.The subscription version for consumers, called Office 365 Home Premium, will...

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FBI warns financial institutions are being highly targeted by fraudsters

Sep 17, 2012 05:31 pm | Network Worldby Michael Cooney The FBI today said cybercriminals have recently stepped up efforts to steal money and gain access to banks and other financial institutions using spam, phishing emails, keystroke loggers and Remote Access Trojans (RAT).Specifically, the fraudsters are looking to compromise financial institution networks and obtain employee login credentials. The stolen credentials are...

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Nasuni latest to roll out mobile access to cloud-based network storage

Sep 17, 2012 05:31 pm | Network Worldby Brandon Butler Within a few years, mobile access to cloud-based storage will be a "checkmark" feature that will be fairly ubiquitous among the major vendors, predicts 451 Research Group analyst Simon Anderson. We're not quite there yet, but more and more vendors are rolling out the feature.The latest is Nasuni, which delivers a cloud-based network-attached storage option...

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CIOs Look Ahead: Millennials, Consumer Tech and the Future

Sep 17, 2012 05:10 pm | CIO.comby Tom Kaneshige It's 1 a.m. and Josh Robin is busy working."I'm kind of stir crazy, don't need a lot of sleep, so it's probably prime time for getting things done," says the fast-talking 25-year-old director of innovation at MBTA, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.At any moment on any given day, Robin might be Skype-ing with interns, Tweeting work updates, or tapping on his personal...

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Jenkins integration server suffers security vulnerabilities

Sep 17, 2012 04:48 pm | InfoWorldFour vulnerabilities, including two affecting the Jenkins core and one deemed critical, have been identified by Paul Krill Jenkins, the open source continuous integration server that forked out of Oracle's Hudson project, is facing several security vulnerabilities Monday, with the Jenkins project leader recommending upgrades to the Jenkins core and some plug-ins to fix the problems.A security...

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How to Manage Data Center Complexity

Sep 17, 2012 04:45 pm | CIOby Thor Olavsrud Complexity in the data center has a number of unwelcome effects on the enterprise, from increased costs to reduced agility and even downtime. For the past five years, organizations have been virtualizing their data centers in an effort to reduce complexity and increase efficiency. But while virtualization offers significant benefits, many such projects have shifted rather than...

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