Synaptics, Atmel,N-trig, Raydium, Cypress and Focaltech -- big names in the field of touch-based devices -- have all agreed get on board with NVIDIA's DirectTouch platform. The tech offloads some of the work needed to track and process finger input from t.....»»

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Company adds encryption tools to secure remotely stored data Sophos has updated its SafeGuard Enterprise platform to offer encrpytion capibilities on cloud computing platforms. The company said that the update would allow a singl.....»»

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Steelhead Cloud Accelerator maintains fastest path to datacentre WAN optimisation vendor Riverbed Technology is teaming up with Akamai on a platform designed to speed the performance of popular cloud computing environments. The S.....»»

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Steelhead Cloud Accelerator maintains fastest path to datacentre WAN optimisation vendor Riverbed Technology is teaming up with Akamai on a platform designed to speed the performance of popular cloud computing environments. The S.....»»

The early days of Windows were inauspicious ones. Sitting on top of DOS, it was hardly a revolution in personal computing -- instead it felt like a disjointed platform perched uncomfortably atop a command prompt, ready to come crashing down at any moment......»»

CloudStack is an open source cloud orchestration platform that essentially allows service providers to set up on-demand, elastic cloud computing services that function like Amazon EC2.  If you've heard of Rackspace's OpenStack, you could consider CloudSt.....»»

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk Service outage affected countless customers including government's G-Cloud service The outage on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform that caused the government's G-Cloud service to go offline was the result of a calcul.....»»

EMC enhances Greenplum database links to Hadoop while adding a ready-made computing platform powered by Cisco servers......»»

Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe’s biggest research centres (CERN, EMBL and ESA) announced a partnership to launch a European cloud computing platform. "Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud", will support the massive IT requ.....»»

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk Helix Nebula Science Cloud to help in search for Higgs boson CERN has announced it is developing a pan-European cloud computing platform, with two other leading scientific organisations, which will take advantage of the increased com.....»»

The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole. We're hearing .....»»

Sidestepping HDFS and using Informatica's messaging software, MapR says it will be the first to stream data into the big data platform. InformationWeek's RSS Feed is brought to you by Cisco Webcast: Third-Generation Fabric Computing   Leadin.....»»

Mobile Computing: iPad 3 will have 4G LTE networking. Super-sized Android apps can reach 4GB. Convergence: Disney Channel content hits YouTube. Broadband: Verizon launches faster-than-wired wireless broadband for homes. Gaming: Zynga Platform ope.....»»

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Platforms aim to extend enterprise cloud reach IBM has unveiled a series of new services designed to help enterprises better manage cloud computing services. The company said that its Smart Cloud Foundation platform would allow a.....»»

Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk Third generation Cisco UCS adds new servers, switches and enhanced management tools Cisco has announced upgrades to its Unified Computing System (UCS) datacentre platform, adding new server hardware based on Intel's Xeon E5-260.....»»

Cloud computing provider Virtustream, a hot player in the enterprise cloud space, with a cloud platform designed for mission-critical and heavy-duty enterprise applications such as SAP, has raised another $15 million in investment capital. The money bring.....»»

Acer has adopted Nvidia's 28nm Kepler-architecture GPU, GeForce GT 640M, for its Aspire Timeline M3 Ultra, a 15-inch Ivy Bridge-platform ultrabook......»»

Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk Service aims to better handle virtualised platforms HP has overhauled its Always On support platform to better handle cloud computing and virtualisation. The company said that its Always On Support Services would look to reduce t.....»»

Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform recently suffered a partial service outage due to a leap year bug. We review the cause and Microsoft's response. By Jeff Martin.....»»

HTC is expected to venture into cloud computing music service that will provide cross-platform, cross-device mobile music experience to end users in the second half of 2012, with its subsidiary Beats Electronics responsible for planning, according to indu.....»»