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Seagate Predicts HDD Shortages Through 2012

Back in November, our Arthur Cole wondered how bad the hard disk drive shortage, resulting from the devastating floods in Thailand, could get. It looks like we might have a better idea. Seagate Technology announced today that it thinks the shortage will continue through this year and, in a piece on... More >

Microsoft Expected to Announce Layoffs

Several sites are reporting that Microsoft is set to announce a round of layoffs today. The reported 200 layoffs are expected to hit the marketing department as a result of restructuring. Forbes’ Eric Savitz reports that most of the cuts will be in the Seattle area and will affect the Windows,... More >

SeaMicro’s New Xeon Microserver Promises Faster Data Delivery

SeaMicro, today, announced a new offering to its line of servers. According to the press release, the SM10000-XE(TM) is the industry’s first fabric-based Intel(R) Xeon(R) microserver. The microserver is geared toward heavy workloads, such as the delivery of data from social media and search. The... More >

Microsoft’s Office 15 Public Beta Set for Summer

The next generation of Microsoft Office, codenamed “Office 15,” is now in the Technical Preview Program and will be available for public beta this summer, according PJ Hough, CVP of development for the Microsoft Office Division. The announcement was made on the company’s Office Exec blog. The... More >

Tech Companies Collaborate on DMARC to Fight Phishing

The DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, standard will be backed by a collaborative group of large tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and Google, in the fight against phishing attacks, the partner groups announced today. Authentication... More >

Top Password Security Tips for SMBs

Password security guidelines aren't just for big players like Zappos. In fact, as cyber criminals set their sights on vulnerable SMBs, smaller organizations would do well do revisit password management practices — and before user or employee accounts are comprised, tarnishing the company reputation,... More >

Federal CTO Chopra Stepping Down

In yet another executive shake-up, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra has decided to step down from his post. An official announcement is expected at some point today. Chopra was formerly Virginia’s secretary of technology and was tapped by President Obama in 2009 to oversee tech... More >

Rubinstein Leaves HP

Jon Rubinstein, a senior vice president of HP’s PC business, has left the company. Rubinstein was previously a chief executive at Palm and had joined HP when it acquired Palm for $1.2 billion in April of 2010. According to an HP spokesman, Rubinstein had “fulfilled his commitment to... More >