Industry

Don’t look now, but Microsoft is surprising in the cloud

No doubt Microsoft will cling to on-premises until the bitter end, but it's become a very successful cloud provider.

Immigration reform bill takes aim at Indian IT outsourcing companies

Electricity’s in the air: Powermat ties the knot with PowerKiss

By combining forces, the two wireless charging giants hope to create one consistent charging experience for customers

Nation’s power grid under constant cyberattack, but Congress lax

Utilities' cyber defense efforts said to be rapped by legislators, Congressional report finds

IT security vendors seen as clueless on industrial control systems

Even the most innocuous security processes used for traditional IT systems could spell disaster in an ICS

Lenovo’s net profit up 90 percent, smartphone shipments soar

Lenovo's smartphone shipments grew 206 percent year-over-year in the quarter

French police end missing persons searches, suggest using Facebook instead

A century-old administrative procedure has been made obsolete by the Internet, according to the Ministry of the Interior

SoftBank said to be in talks with US to allay national security fears

The Japanese company will allow the U.S government to approve a director on the Sprint Nextel board tasked with monitoring security issues

Samsung sells over 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones in first month

The Galaxy S4 achieved the first-month sales earlier than its predecessors

Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network

Translucent layers of metal inside glass windows could block outside signals and reinforce those inside