Stuart J. Johnston

Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) AppUp Small Business Service consists of a server reference architecture called the Intel Hybrid Cloud Platform, a catalog of applications that small businesses can subscribe to, and a software platform that provides management and tracking of the applications’ usage. The subscription service is provided to small businesses by MSPs, who help set […]

Microsoft showed off some of the 500 new features it says are coming in the first major update to Windows Phone 7 (WP7), codenamed “Mango,” next fall during a gala preview event in New York Tuesday. Among the 500 new features promised in Mango at the event, many key additions will be focused around providing […]

Lucid8 today announced immediate availability of its latest data protection solution for Microsoft Exchange server. Exchange Protection Manager(EPM), a replacement for the company’s DigiVault Exchange backup and recovery product line, provides highly granular data protection using single pass technology, according to the company’s CEO Troy Werelius. “EPM uses true single pass backup and does granular […]

Due to the breakneck speed at which competing phone platforms roll out updates to their systems, Microsoft has to make a big splash if it’s going to get a leg up on the dominant players anytime soon. With that in mind, Microsoft has a WP7 Mango event scheduled for Tuesday morning in New York, where […]

Sepaton is currently beta testing its S2100-DS3 Series 1000 and 2000 systems, which the company specifically engineered to provide remote offices with data protection capabilities to match its ES2 Series of centralized data protection appliances for main office implementations. The DS3 is a follow on, and replacement for, the DS and DS2 Series appliances. Like […]

MasterObjects, which makes search technology, is taking legal action against software giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for alleged patent infringement. MasterObjects claims to hold a patent for technology that provides progressive search information as the user types in his or her query, a feature that Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all provide in their search engines. The […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android dominated the smartphone operating system market, selling more than 36 million units to customers globally, up from 5.2 million in last year’s first quarter to 36 percent market share. That’s a shift from 9.6 percent share last year, according to Gartner. In comparison, Symbian sales were at 27.6 million units, up […]

Exchange Online is a key part of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) of services, providing email in the cloud for millions of subscribers. Last week, Microsoft scrambled multiple times to end glitches in the service that plagued many users with lack of email deliveries for as many as nine or more hours […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)has long been tied to Intel’s chip architecture for Windows deployments. That could be changing as Microsoft gears up for Windows 8. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) official told several publications, including Bloomberg News, about Microsoft’s ARM plans during the chip maker’s analyst day on Tuesday at Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters. ARM processors power most […]

The ranks of storage players just became a little smaller this week, as SanDisk announced it is buying enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) maker Pliant, and Autonomy said it was acquiring substantial digital assets of Iron Mountain. SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) said it will pay approximately $327 million, along with “certain equity-based incentives,” for Pliant Technology. The […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)this week starting showing off new features for the next iteration of Windows Phone set to debut in a major update. Codenamed “Mango” — Microsoft has been talking about the update for several months. “In Mango, we’re adding the ability to save and share Office documents through Office 365 and Windows Live SkyDrive, […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is giving customers and the market an updated roadmap for Visual Studio’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features. Microsoft also is sharing a preview of a connector to link Visual Studio with the company’s System Center management tools. Additionally, Microsoft showed off new client-side, cloud-computing capabilities coming later this year in the “Mango” […]