Apple’s iTunes Match cloud-music feature seems to be inching closer to release: An option to enable the feature has now appeared on the second-generation Apple TV—this despite Apple having missed its goal of launching iTunes Match by the end of October. Reports of iTunes Match showing up on the Apple TV began surfacing online on [...]

Tempted to switch your company over to the latest Microsoft OS? Here’s what you need to know before you upgrade. Tweet Microsoft Microsoft VP Michael Angiulo demos Windows Developer Preview on a Samsung Prototype PC at the BUILD conference in September 2011. Related Tools Subscription Service Agreement Service Level Requirements Template Software Development Plan Remember [...]

LONDON, November 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Dixons Retail, the UK’s leading electrical retailer, specialising in goods such as laptops, televisions and cameras, has today announced plans for a massive multi-million pound marketing campaign in another exclusive partnership with Lucasfilm.  Starring the formidable Darth Vader, the campaign highlights the outstanding in-store customer service experience that Currys [...]

Cyberattacks by Chinese and Russian intelligence services, as well corporate hackers in those countries, have swallowed up large amounts of high-tech American research and development data, and that stolen information has helped build their economies, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded.

The minimum “best practice” backup arrangement for your vital data is to maintain three copies of the data: the original, a local backup, and a second backup offsite. With LaCie’s CloudBox NAS device, you simply back up to the ethernet-connected unit, which then automatically backs up to LaCie’s own online backup service. But easy as [...]

Several years ago, tech journos like me would revel in benchmarking hardware using the latest games. Far Cry, Call of Duty 2, and Crysis were all so good that you felt compelled to play them at their best settings using the latest hardware. But that all ground to a halt. What happened? And could Battlefield [...]

Tustin, Calif. – GF Piping Systems has added an Ultrasonic Flow Measurement and Logging Family to its extensive line of flow and analytical measurement instrumentation. Featuring advanced DSP technology, the new ultrasonic family includes two portable models, Portaflow 220 and 330 ,and two fixed installation models, Ultraflo 3000/4000. Both system types display instantaneous fluid flow [...]

I think everyone on the Street is relieved that Hewlett-Packard came to a quick decision on its internal debate on whether t0 keep its personal computer business. (In case you missed it, they’re going to keep it.) So was it the right call? First announced in August by former CEO Leo Apotheker, the process of [...]

At Apple’s companywide memorial event for Steve Jobs, new Apple CEO Tim Cook emphasized Jobs’s direct involvement in six revolutionary products: the Mac, the iPod and iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad, Apple the company, and Pixar. Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography Steve Jobs touches on all these topics; here are closer looks at Jobs’s direct involvement [...]

Like us on Facebook HP will close its fourth quarter Monday and financial results are to be reported Nov. 21. That means the company won’t have to report PC sales as discontinued items or begin the costly process of spinning it off or hiring bankers for a sale. As the world’s biggest PC maker  — [...]