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The latest Apple product rumors suggest that the company will introduce a 12.9-inch iPad, which would be the largest iPad model the company has built so far. Market rumors suggest that Apple will release this larger tablet model in early 2015. However, Apple isn’t expected to unveil the new tablet during a Sept. 9 media […]

Starting July 15, 2015, all smartphones sold in California will be required to include a “kill switch” that can be remotely activated to disable a stolen phone and render it useless. This is part of a strategy to end the problem of cell phones being stolen during the commission of often violent street crimes. Governor […]

Microsoft has launched a preview of the SQL Database Auditing feature for Azure SQL DB. SQL Database Auditing is available on all Azure SQL DB service tiers, including Basic, Standard and Premium plans, explained Tony Petrossian, group program manager of Azure SQL DB. Audit logs count against an organization’s plan and are written to specified […]

Apple has announced that iPhone 5 owners who have been experiencing problems with the battery life on their devices could now be eligible for a free battery replacement under a new repair program. In a post on Apple’s website, the company admitted that a small percentage of iPhone 5 devices need to be charged more […]

Microsoft is hoping that the Windows Phone 8.1’s built-in capabilities will help its newest operating system catch the eye of security-driven U.S. government agencies, which are under pressure to adopt mobile-enabled work styles. Rick Engle, Microsoft’s principal Windows technology specialist, wrote a blog post aimed at combating the belief that increased mobility means increased risk […]

There was bad news and good news in Hewlett-Packard’s fiscal third-quarter earnings report. The bad was that the IT giant posted earnings that were down 29 percent from a year ago, mostly due to the costs of thousands of employee layoffs and payments on several expensive past acquisitions. The good was that HP’s streak of […]

Linux founder Linus Torvalds spoke at the recent LinuxCon about the hopes and challenges of Linux in 2014. He explained that he still wants Linux to have a major presence on the desktop and that the challenge of the desktop is not a kernel problem but rather an infrastructure problem. Torvalds added that Linux has […]

Since Aug. 15, Microsoft has been beset with outages affecting its Azure cloud computing platform, which powers the company’s growing infrastructure- and software-as-a-service portfolio. It began with customers receiving a 500 Internal Server Error message when they tried to log into the Azure Management Portal. While the company resolved those issues, on Aug. 18, Microsoft […]

Google is adding new capabilities to its Chrome Web browser to protect users from downloading applications that appear to be safe and valid, but are actually malicious programs in disguise. These changes are designed to help users more easily identify deceptive software programs that can make unexpected changes to a user’s computer such as switching […]

Enterprises are continuing to experience difficulties with their increasingly mobile environments—from the number of smartphones and tablets flooding the market to the challenges that come with managing the devices and data that lies within them. In response to this, Dell has launched a global marketing campaign to dispel some myths enterprises have about mobility and […]