Robert J. Mullins

Global sales figure for smartphones, ranked by operating system, show a major leap in sales for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices but that its market share is still tiny compared with top sellers running Google Android and Apple iOS. The research firm Canalys reports that sales of Windows Phone 7-powered devices jumped by 277 percent […]

Woz Version 6.2 Friends of Steve Wozniak gathered in San Francisco for a surprise birthday party, which organizers dubbed “Woz 6.2.” The Big Surprise Steve Wozniak and his wife Janet are showered with confetti as they enter a surprise birthday party for him at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco. […]

While information technology is intended to make enterprises run more efficiently, many find it difficult to manage multiple software platforms to meet business goals, according to a survey released Aug. 1 by BMC Software. The survey, conducted for BMC by Forrester Consulting, reveals that as many as 90 percent of 448 IT professionals surveyed in […]

Smartphone shipment numbers released July 27 by IDC show mobile device sales by industry leaders Samsung and Apple skyrocketing, while Nokia fell off a cliff with a nearly 40 percent drop. But IDC analyst Ramon Llamas says there is a way for Nokia and its mobile operating system partner Microsoft to get back in the […]

Skype has issued a vigorous defense of its privacy policies and denies allegations made in some media reports that it has revised the architecture of its service to aid law-enforcement efforts to monitor calls. “Some media stories recently have suggested Skype may be acting improperly or based on ulterior motives against our users’ interests. Nothing […]

Two new products aimed at network attack prevention were demonstrated at the recently adjourned Black Hat 2012 network security conference in Las Vegas. One product discovers likely avenues for cyber-attacks before they happen and the other attempts to isolate the network from malware. Security software company FireMon applies network monitoring in its Security Manager 6.0, […]

At the Black Hat 2012 conference taking place July 21-26 in Las Vegas, cyber-security firms are sharing information on how to keep up with rapidly evolving threats. One researcher says it’s not enough to fight known threats-you also have track down the developing threats as they just start to emerge. “We focus on threats that […]

Apple has made the ninth release of its Mac OS X operating system, Mountain Lion, available for download from the Mac App Store as a $19.99 upgrade for users of the Lion or Snow Leopard OSes. Chief among the more than 200 new features in Mountain Lion is integration with iCloud, Apple’s cloud offering for […]

Microsoft is apparently looking for a few good programmers to design Microsoft Office to run on Apple products, as a recently spotted job listing on a Microsoft site suggests. Rumors have been bouncing around various tech news Websites for months, including eWEEK, that Microsoft and Apple are close to an agreement on developing a version […]

Virtualization market leader VMware reported its second quarter 2012 results July 23 with no indication what impact Microsoft’s Hyper-V is having on VMware sales, though Microsoft certainly has something to say about that. In reporting financial results July 23, VMware revealed that its net income fell by 13 percent to $191.7 million in the second […]