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Intuit to acquire Demandforce for $424m; SaaS for SMBs

Apr 27, 1:38PM

Intuit, the firm behind TurboTax and Mint.com, will purchase San Francisco neighbor Demandforce for $425.5 million in cash. The target: small- and medium-sized businesses.


Bring your supercomputer to the power

Apr 27, 1:12PM

Nordic European countries team up to test the feasibility of remote supercomputing


I hate Ubuntu, but my mother-in-law loves it

Apr 27, 1:08PM

Ubuntu's Unity GUI isn't my speed. But that doesn't matter for the majority of end-users.


Google better get its own tablet released, and soon

Apr 27, 12:43PM

The rumored Google tablet is something that better happen, and soon or Google will lose the Android tablet war to Amazon.


Building a budget PC for under $360

Apr 27, 12:12PM

A budget PC for under $360 built around AMD excellent A8 Llano APU (Accelerated Processing Unit).


First time Apple product buyers spell trouble for PC world

Apr 27, 11:53AM

Millions of new iPad buyers are getting their first exposure to Apple products. This could be bad for PC makers, Microsoft, and other Apple competitors.


Can analytics cut rugby injuries? IBM thinks so

Apr 27, 11:00AM

The Leicester Tigers rugby football club will start crunching player data, performance and stress levels to curtail injuries.


Google's "Zerg rush" Easter egg game eats up search results

Apr 27, 10:53AM

The battle of the Zergs is on, as Google installs a new Easter egg to waste millions of global productivity hours. Kill the rogue the letters and stop them destroying your search results!


The race to be the leading cloud platform

Apr 27, 10:33AM

The race to be the leading cloud platform is well underway. Amazon's AWS is clearly the market leader at this point. OpenStack is gaining momentum in the cloud platform race. Eucalyptus is not...


Google hits back at FCC over Wi-Fi data collection fine

Apr 27, 10:06AM

Google has escaped a wiretap investigation, but it will keep the permanent black mark against its name for "impeding" an FCC probe, which it was fined $25,000 for.


CISPA: more heinous than SOPA, and it just passed

Apr 27, 9:39AM

There's still time to take this bill down. Read, learn, and then let your Congress-Critters know that, once again, We The Internet will not stand for these assaults on our rights.


Chip industry seeing 'modest' uptick thanks to tablets, phones

Apr 27, 9:30AM

Even if tablet sales are suddenly picking up, the semiconductor industry is actually only getting a "modest" boost in revenue, according to a new report.


Samsung's record Q1: By the numbers

Apr 27, 9:06AM

Samsung's record first quarter put the company ahead of Nokia in handset sales, and in front of Apple in smartphone sales. Is the company unstoppable?


More video for you: Ed News Ticker and the money game in education

Apr 27, 6:35AM

Video from my new bi-weekly wrapup of interesting ed tech stories with Kirsten Winkler


Tablets in education (Video)

Apr 27, 6:16AM

Most Wednesdays, I run a live webinar on WizIQ, usually on some ed tech-related topic. I tend not to post the recordings here since there is definitely a commercial element to them (I wouldn't be...


Apple pulls Bluetooth OnOff from the App Store

Apr 27, 5:03AM

Apple's removal of an app that allowed users to quickly access a popular setting demonstrates how it has become lethargic and how iOS innovation has slowed to a crawl.


Nokia loses global cellphone lead to Samsung for first time since 1998

Apr 27, 4:32AM

Samsung is a force in the smartphone world and just ousted Nokia for the global cellphone lead, which Nokia has led since 1998.


How SOPA protests were used to push CISPA

Apr 27, 2:56AM

CISPA authors and supporters have tried everything they can to avoid another SOPA protest - except tell the truth about their bill.


Microsoft makes improvements to Redis on Windows in-memory database

Apr 26, 10:18PM

A new iteration of the Redis on Windows in-memory database technology is now available in GitHub.


Report says Hotmail exploit "spread like wild fire," is now fixed

Apr 26, 9:19PM

Microsoft plugged a serious security hole in its Hotmail password reset service last week, after one report claims it was widely exploited.



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