From PC World: Hewlett-Packard isn’t making bones about the fact that the Unix OS market is in decline, but the company believes its HP-UX has a long life ahead for customers using its fault-tolerant servers.
The company has a road map for HP-UX into 2022, which could possibly expand into 2025...
From CNET: Streaming media devices, like set-top boxes that connect to a television or sticks that plug into an HDMI port, have proven even more popular this year than last, a new study shows.
During the first three quarters of 2014, 10 percent of US households that have a broadband connection have...
From DailyTech: If at first you don't succeed the rumor mill will keep spinning. That's the story more or less of the long-anticipated Tizen smartphone, which has seen plenty of rumors, but no actual product, thus far.
The company behind the device is smartphone market leader Samsung Electronics...
From InfoWorld: Mozilla will automatically change the default search engine in Firefox from Google to Yahoo for most U.S. users when it updates the browser this month.
Firefox 34 is to launch later today or perhaps tomorrow, and may include the search engine switch.
All U.S. Firefox users who have...
From PC World: Intel is strengthening its effort to reduce what it calls the “pain of passwords” by acquiring PasswordBox, a Canadian company that offers an online identity manager designed to let users log on to a range of websites and services with just one click.
PasswordBox lets users store...
From CNET: Microsoft's Windows 8.1 continues to win over more desktop users.
For the month of November, Windows 8.1 scored 12.1 percent of all Web traffic as seen by Net Applications, up from 10.9 percent in October and just 6.67 percent in September.
At the same time, the no-longer-supported...
From DailyTech: Is it a new flagship device -- perhaps the long-awaited Lumia 1030, even? Is it a prototype Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is playing with? Is it the cancelled McLaren device with hands free controls?
Nobody seems quite sure, but the pictures leaking out of China of an unreleased Windows...
I was recently talking within my group of friends about my sister's favorite topic: Shoes. In my opinion, shoes are more about getting the wearer from one place to another. Personally, I only have two pairs of shoes: One formal pair for all the fancier events I attend, and a pair of runners. I would possibly add one or two more pairs, which would consist of a pair of boots for the deep winter snows we get in Calgary, and another casual pair of...
From PC World: With China’s Internet growth slowing, the country is opening up the broadband provider market to private enterprises as part of government sponsored trial.
The country on Wednesday released a draft of the upcoming trial rules, which will let private enterprises sell broadband...
From CNET: Twitter will begin collecting data on which apps its users are downloading in order to build a "more personal" experience, Recode reported.
In the Security and Privacy section of its support site, the company says that it will be "collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps...
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