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Office 365 is a $1 billion business, Microsoft claims
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Microsoft’s cloud-hosted desktop productivity suite, Office 365, is selling at a run-rate of $1 billion a year, the company’s chief...
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IBM is the latest to blame poor performance on sales execution
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO IBM has become the latest in a string of IT companies to blame their sales people for their poor financial performance. The company's...
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The fibre with the hole in the middle
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Fibre-optic cabling has without doubt hollow-core fibres can support multiple data maximum distance of 10 km before the revolutionised...
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Lenovo in talks to buy IBM’s x86 server business – report
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Lenovo, the Chinese computer maker that acquired IBM's PC business in 2004, may repeat the trick with its x86 commodity server...
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Abandon “dangerous” Snoopers’ Charter, cyber experts warn PM
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO A consortium of cyber security experts have written to the prime minister urging him to abandon the Data Communications' Bill,...
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Eric Schmidt angers MPs by defending Google’s tax avoidance
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO MPs have called on the government to drop Google chairman Eric Schmidt from the Prime Minister's Advisory Group after he defended the...
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EE says over 300,000 customers have signed up for 4G
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO EE says that is has signed up 318,000 customers to its 4G mobile networking service so far and will attract one million by Christmas....
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FBI investigating fake White House explosion tweet
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO The Associated Press has confirmed a tweet about explosions in the White House was posted yesterday afternoon after its official...
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Apple profits fall for the first time in a decade
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Apple's net income for the most recent financial quarter fell 18% year-on-year to $9.5 billion, the first time its profit has fallen...
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Verizon preparing to buy Vodafone out of US joint venture for $100bn
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO US mobile telecommunications provider Verizon is preparing to offer to buy Vodafone out of their Verizon Wireless joint venture...
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Hadoop will be the operating system for the data centre, says WANdisco
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO In 2000, Dr Yeturu Aahlad quit his job as head of distributed computing at Sun Microsystems to work on a thorny computer science...
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Why in-memory computing is going mainstream
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO In most computer systems, random access memory (RAM) plays a comparable role to the ‘working memory’ of the human brain: it is a...
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Smart glasses will fail without augmented reality, research predicts
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Smart glass devices will fail to find widespread adoption if they fall short of being "true augmented systems", according to a report...
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MarkLogic looks to push NoSQL beyond publishing
By Ed Reeves on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO MarkLogic was founded back in 2001, long before anyone had even thought of uttering the words “NoSQL” or “big data”. But its novel...
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