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Box buys iOS app to improve its own
Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage...
Google tests enhanced notifications in Chrome browser
Google has released a beta version of Chrome that introduces what the company describes as "richer" notifications from the browser's...
IT weather forecast: Hurricanes with a chance of dead satellites
NOAA is working to fix a broken weather satellite -- the one that watches the Atlantic Ocean -- even as it gears up for what's expected to be an...
Cloudian connects with Citrix for easier cloud rollouts
Cloudian is integrating its platform with Citrix's CloudPortal Business Manager as it aims to make it easier to roll out and manage storage as a...
Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers in two regions
Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face...
Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive
HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer"...
Practical advice about disaster recovery planning
Disaster recovery plans and the usual mix of uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), co-location services, data mirroring and hot-standby technologies...
How to dummy-proof the PCs of friends and family
BRR-RING! The phone rings at midnight, interrupting your sleep--or worse, your late night Steam session with your gaming clan. Is someone sick? Did a...
Cisco cites data-center, wireless for quarterly revenue increase
Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing...
VMware and Verizon Tackle BYOD with Dual Persona Phones
VMware has partnered with Verizon to offer dual persona smartphones for Verizon enterprise customers. It's currently available on two...
So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos
Regular PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch, a Linux distribution I covered last fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and...
The proper care and feeding of SSD storage
Your solid-state drive sits there in silence. It's sleek. Elegant. More than a little mysterious.The hard drive it replaced was easy to...
Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May
Canonical on Wednesday announced its next moves on the way to market with a Linux-powered phone.
Box to revamp document viewing with Crocodoc acquisition
Box has acquired Crocodoc in a move to significantly improve the way documents are rendered for viewing on its enterprise storage and file sharing...
More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver
Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most...
Fusion-io CEO resigns, is replaced by former HP executive Robison
Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard.
Review: HP 3PAR conjures powerful storage magic
HP 3PAR StoreServe 7400 combines high scalability, high performance, and a big bag of tricks for easing storage management
EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability
Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.
Harvard aims to help developers make cheaper solar panels
Hoping to usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard's Clean Energy Project in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds...
Apple expands flash storage options across iMac line
If you're in the market for a new iMac, you may be happy to hear that Apple has added a few more options to its line of desktop computers,...