eWEEK Staff

Microsoft Visual Studio RTM Ready for Download July 20

Today’s topics include the next major release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2015, new smartphone options for AT&T’s prepaid, no-contract GoPhone, details on how Ikea patched the recent Shellshock vulnerability and the debut of a new working group for defining an Open API for cloud security. Microsoft announced that developers can start downloading the next major […]

SAP Testing Apple Watch Apps for Enterprise Users

Today’s topics include an effort to create apps that that allow SAP applications to transfer data to the Apple Watch, word of a new project from NASA and Microsoft, an innovative health-tracking band from Google and two new storage systems from Lenovo. Enterprise workers who use SAP applications in their jobs could one day be […]

Microsoft Releases Office Apps for Android Mobile Devices

Today’s topics include the availability of Microsoft Office for Android, the removal of a Google audio listening component from Chromium, Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless join forces to challenge enterprise networking giants, and new applications from HP for its Sprout immersive computing system. Starting today, both Android tablet and mobile phone users can download the […]

Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Status Notifications Go Mobile

Today’s topics include push notifications for the Office 365 Admin app, the virtualization of Oracle Communications products, security issues with fitness monitors and why ARM executives went to this year’s Red Hat Summit. Service interruptions are unavoidable consequences of trusting enterprise applications to a third-party cloud provider. Microsoft is working on ways of giving IT […]

Oracle Sets Sights on Amazon With New PaaS Cloud Offerings

Today’s topics include Oracle’s latest effort to become the top platform-as-a-service provider, NetApp’s new high-end flash storage arrays, new IoT offerings from Freescale Semiconductor and how Taylor Swift helped change Apple’s plans for launching its new streaming music service. Oracle wants to be the undisputed leader in the platform-as-a-service business. To achieve that goal, the […]

Loopholes Appear in Microsoft’s Windows 10 Upgrade Policy

Today’s topics include the extent that Windows 10 will be free, the new Open Container Project, backed by the Linux foundation, an expansion from Pica8 and the airline industry’s thoughts on the Internet of things. Microsoft caused a stir earlier this year when it said it was breaking from tradition and making Windows 10 available […]

AMD Execs Deny Reports It Plans to Split Up the Company

Today’s topics include a new strategy for AMD, rumored features of the Apple Watch 2, a plan to get Nokia back in the phone game and a new project from Google and the other major browser makers, including Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. Advanced Micro Devices officials have a plan for getting the chip maker back […]

FCC Hits AT&T With $100M Fine for Violating ‘Transparency Rule’

Today’s topics include a big FCC fine for AT&T, a delay in the release of Windows 10 for mobile, significant job cuts at Intel and the FBI’s investigating possible email hacking in the world of professional sports. The Federal Communications Commission is planning to whack wireless leader AT&T with the largest fine the Commission has […]

Microsoft Adding Cortana to Xbox One This Fall

Today’s topics include Cortana heading to Xbox this fall, Sprint to enable calls to Cuba, SAS’ launch of a fast, new data analytics modeling tool and Intel’s acquisition of eyewear maker Recon Instruments. After Windows Phone and soon Windows 10, iOS and Android, Cortana is making a move to Microsoft’s Xbox One video game and […]

Microsoft Offers Glimpse of Benefits of EMS, Windows 10

Today’s topics include plans for Microsoft’s “mobile-first, cloud-first” vision, new cloud conferencing offerings from Polycom, a data breach at password security vendor LastPass and a reward from Google for researchers who discover security flaws in the Android mobile operating system. Microsoft is banking on Enterprise Mobility Suite and its upcoming Windows 10 operating system to […]