Vendors and Providers

Slower growth will challenge smartphone vendors in 2014

Vendors will continue to lean on higher resolutions and faster processors

House passes bill aimed at curbing patent trolls

The Innovation Act, opposed by some inventors, next heads to the Senate for action

M&A, IPOs, in-memory tech, and end of a feud mark top software stories

Emergence of human capital management software also marks year for enterprise tech

Oracle integrates DTrace debugger into its Linux distribution

Oracle Linux administrators can finally take advantage of the powerful DTrace debugging tool, first designed for Solaris

IBM blames ISPs for ‘offensive’ Internet … back in 1994

OS/2 version 3.0 (Warp) came with a warning

China Mobile-Apple iPhone pact ‘very big deal’

World's largest carrier -- over 700M subscribers -- offers huge opportunity for Apple

2 million stolen login credentials discovered for Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, other sites

How Cross-platform Tools Make It Easier to Develop for Both iOS and Android

Cisco sees SDN, Internet of Things in its 2014 crystal ball

Real-time Web communications and killer apps to harness them coming too

Microsoft to encrypt services, notify customers of gov’t data requests

The company is encrypting information traveling on its services, which will be completed by end 2014