Data Center

Netflix to dump Silverlight, Microsoft’s stalled technology

Shifting to HTML5, first on Chrome OS, then Windows and OS X, for in-browser video streaming

Microsoft Azure: Amazon Price Match with Service Consistency

Microsoft Cloud OS strategy consists of on-premise, Azure, and the service provider revolving around the consistency of experience and services across each of the consumption models.

Java 7 Update 21 to fix bugs, change applet warning messages

The new update will fix 42 security issues, 39 of which are remotely exploitable

Google’s Eric Schmidt talks Facebook Home, ‘phenomenal’ new Motorola devices

Google's Motorola division is also working on 'phenomenal' new products, Schmidt says

Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

The software program, called Savanna, will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service

Massive citizen smartphone photo and video probe underway into Boston bombings

FBI will process photos and videos and 'go through every frame' to seek evidence, officials say

Military academies take on NSA in cybersecurity competition

Open your data to the world

Public APIs let customers connect to you in new ways.

Android founder: We aimed to make a camera OS

Andy Rubin, who co-founded Android before it was acquired by Google, said it soon became clear that phones were a better bet

Boston blasts show two sides of social media

Twitter and Facebook can prove invaluable in a crisis, but are also a conduit for misinformation and hoaxes