platform. UCS began shipping in July 2009 and it is now on an annualized order run rate of over $1 billion, Cisco says. Cisco is No. 4 in the overall server market after three years in the business, No. 2 in x86 blade servers in the US and No. 3 worldwide, according to CEO John Chambers. and switch hardware focus. Software is 80% of NDS' revenue and the remainder comes from integration services.
SharePoint has taken the world by storm. As of last year, if Microsoft broke SharePoint's revenue out as a single entity, it would have created the fifth largest software company in existence, according to Jared Spataro, senior director of SharePoint product management at Microsoft. IT folks: We hope you'll pass this guide on to your users to help them learn the SharePoint 2010 ropes. All told, hundreds of thousands of SharePoint licenses and millions of installations of both the free and the paid enterprise edition exist in the world. All of which means there's a good chance you use SharePoint—even just a little bit—if you have any sort of corporate job. But most users barely scratch the surface of what is possible in Microsoft's premier collaboration platform. Or perhaps your company has been using SharePoint 2007 and now you've got 2010 rolled out, and you're feeling lost.
You haven't got all day. And yet you're typing the same text over and over again: email addresses, street addresses, signatures, boilerplate, and so on. that organizes and auto-completes frequently used text snippets. For example, to quickly insert, say, your email address, you could type "em1" (as in "email address #1"), and PhraseExpress would instantly paste in the complete address. Likewise, you could type "sig" to insert a custom email signature (complete with images and/or HTML code) at the end of emails.
It turns out that Acer had more than one new Chromebook up its sleeve. In addition to the , comes with double the RAM, a roomier hard drive, and a bigger battery. At 4GB, Acer's $300 Chromebook now has the same amount of RAM as Samsung's Series 5 550, which sells for $150 more. The extra memory is a must-have if you're the type of web user who keeps a lot of tabs open. Acer promises six hours of battery life per charge for its more expensive Chromebook, which has a 6-cell, 5000 mAh battery instead of a 4-cell, 2500 mAh battery. Again, that puts it on par with Samsung's Chromebooks, which hover around the six-hour mark.
Social networks like Facebook are fertile territory for cyber attacks. The nature of a social network is that it connects you with other people you ostensibly know and trust—so you're more likely to open a message or click a link without thinking twice, which is a bad idea. earlier this year infected an estimated 11 million PCs and raked in roughly $850 million in ill-gotten gains. Facebook was instrumental in working with the FBI to shut down the threat, and to trace its origins to identify and arrest the perpetrators. Tal Be’ery, Web research team leader at Imperva, shares insight on the Yahos malware used to propagate the Butterfly botnet. "The Yahos malware is reported to propagate via social engineering, and naturally it thrives in the hotbed of social networks. An infected user will send a message to all of his friends "How does this photo look?” with an attached Malware file or malware link. Users naturally trust messages they receive from friends and will follow the link and will get infected themselves and the malware will try to spread to all of their friends, ad infinitum." Yahos is not unique to Facebook, but with a billion registered users Facebook is a prime target for any social network-based attack. The social connections in Facebook, and the ways people share information and cutesy photos with each other make it easy prey for a social engineering attack. This wasn't the first attack aimed at social networks, and it won't be the last.
Broadcom thinks it can make NFC a common smartphone feature by offering it in a chip with other wireless technologies, even if making payments with the technology doesn’t catch on for years. On Tuesday, the communications chip company what it called the first chip with built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM radio and NFC (near-field communication), which it said should start appearing in handsets next year. Getting NFC in the same chip it uses for the ubiquitous Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies will make it much easier and cheaper for smartphone makers to integrate the technology in their products, Broadcom executives said at a press event on Tuesday. The event was designed partly as a preview of the International Consumer Electronics Show next month, with demonstrations of technologies such as Miracast mobile-to-TV video streaming that Broadcom expects to see at CES. Until now, vendors have had to buy a separate chip for NFC and work it into their internal designs, taking up extra space in the tight quarters of a phone’s circuitry. More integration also cuts power consumption, Broadcom says.
, and HBO's “Game of Thrones.” This year's Google Zeitgeist includes the top trending searches for gadgets, people, events and Google+ hashtags from around the globe and similar lists specific to the U.S. Google says 2012 saw 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages worldwide. So what was everyone searching for in 2012? Here are some of the highlights. .
Typing on my iPhone keyboard is not my idea of fun. (Oh, for an .) That's especially true when I have to type the same things over and over again, like my e-mail address. You know the drill: You install a new app, then have to register or sign up for some kind of account, always with an e-mail address and password. Thankfully, iOS has a feature that can save you lots of time entering the same snippets of data: Shortcuts, also known as text expansion. Shortcuts, of course, are abbreviations that automatically expand into longer text blurbs when you type them and then tap the space bar. Here are three smart ones for any business user:
Oppo, a little-known Chinese company that makes Blu-ray players praised by audio and videophiles, is bringing a 1080p Android smartphone to the U.S. next year.
A detailed video running down all the features of the L-Series BlackBerry 10 phone we'll see early next year has appeared on the internet. Unfortunately, its in Vietnamese.Still, the video, posted by the Vietnamese site Tinh Te, provides one of the first detailed looks at a phone that RIM has kept secret. The company is ...
Google's end-of-year statistics dump shows just how nerdy Google+ users remain.
[HTML1]The Amazing Spider-Man made over $750 million at the box office and earned a 73 percent Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, but that doesn't mean that the movie (or the character of Peter Parker) wasn't flawed. Fortunately for haters with short attention spans everywhere, there is now a concise video -- "Everything Wrong With?The Amazing ...
DIY electronic music makers, start warming up your soldering irons: a pair of hardware hacking designers have created a miniature two-button, solar-powered synthesizer with a 3-D printed wrist-strap housing, and the full set of plans are posted online for you to make your own.
Most web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting, but sadly few websites obey it. If you want to protect your privacy on the web you need to actively block advertisers with a tool like the new DoNotTrackMe add-on for Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari.
SolarCity prices its shares at $8, down from its original $13-$15 range.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a river system stretching more than 200 miles on Saturn's moon Titan.
Facebook helped U.S. authorities arrest 10 people behind an international botnet ring that controlled more than 11 million computers and led to losses exceeding $850 million.
Google Chairman Eric Scmidt says that Google Fiber will expand.
Bashar Assad is using everything short of chemical weapons on Syrian rebels, from Scud missiles to incendiary bombs to sea mines.
Netflix is planning to increase the number of episodes of the comedy when its released next spring.
There was a great deal of excitement from yesterday?s cosmically close shave as 3-mile-wide asteroid 4179 Toutatis zipped by the Earth. If you missed the action, we?ve rounded up some of the best images and videos from the event.
Unless the moblie apps industry is able to effectively police itself and provide parents the information they need to make informed decisions about their children's digital privacy, more regulations are needed.
General Electric is turning to crowdsourcing in an effort to help improve the chance your next flight will be on time.
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North Korea has just put a satellite into orbit for the first time. Does that mean an intercontinental ballistic missile is next? Not exactly.
A controversial change to official psychiatric guidelines for depression has raised fears that grief over the death of loved ones will be classified as clinical depression, turning a basic part of what it means to be human into a recognized sickness.
Sculpteo has new plans to expand their 3-D print-by-mail service, after the company scored $2.5 million in funding from XAnge Private Equity and other angels.
Viddy, a popular social video app hoping to become an Instagram-for-video, launched an Android app on Wednesday. The company is hoping that Android users will flock to the app, which would help stem a decline in daily users, despite an increase in registered users.
An engineer has used his expertise to create an accurate and festive 3-D gingerbread model of his summer house using a laser cutter.Working on the project with his wife, Johan von Konow generated the necessary shapes for the construction in CAD before using a 50 watt laser engraver to cut them out of a flat sheet of gingerbread
A SARS-like virus discovered this summer in the Middle East may infect more than just humans. The pathogen, a close cousin to the one that caused the 2002 to 2003 SARS outbreak, may also be able to infect cells from pigs and a wide range of bat species, researchers report today. The findings may help public health officials track the source of the outbreak and identify the role of wild animals and livestock in spreading the virus.
Firefox OS, Mozilla's mobile operating system, is getting closer to reality. There still aren't many mobile devices available for testing, but Mozilla has released Firefox OS Simulator 1.0, which gives web developers an easy way to start building mobile web apps for the coming Firefox OS.
Facebook is pushing a suite of privacy products and tools designed to help users better understand and manage its notoriously difficult to understand privacy and security settings.
There are a few actions I find myself constantly doing on my iPhone: looking up the day's biggest news, places to eat in the area and the weather. A new search app for iOS called Grokr aims to put this oft-searched information at your fingertips in a single, consolidated place.
E-mail marketing software has all the charm of a tax form, unless it's MailChimp, a service that brings bold style to a banal task. While MailChimp's publicly traded competitors acquire customers by advertising on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, the primate-themed mailing-list company builds its loyal customer base like an indie band.
Cool Robot and Yeti are fearless polar robots. Yeti is currently mapping ice caves buried in Antarctica's Mt. Erebus. Cool Robot will be making a return trip to Greenland next year.
For our second annual Holiday Giveaway, Wired has a small truckload's worth of pop culture treasure.
Never let it be said BMW cannot develop electric vehicles. The company may not like
Flickr announced a new iOS app today for shooting, editing, sharing and discovering photos. Based on the demo Wired saw, this is exactly the kind of gorgeous application that Flickr users have been longing for and that Flickr has always needed.