Industry

Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud

F5 is virtualizing its application delivery technology to serve SDN and cloud environments

CEO quits foundering ACER — VALLEY underestimated NSA — DC court killing Net Neutrality — APPLE building super-glass plant in AZ — Bezos-Stone SMACKDOWN

Acer CEO resigns as company plans restructuring and layoffs

Acer president Jim Wong will replace Wang as CEO and the PC maker will cut employees by 7 percent

Apple plans Arizona factory that will run on renewable energy

The plant will employ at least 700 people making components for Apple products

Google Helpout service connects people with experts over live video

Users can connect via a computer or mobile device, provided they have a Google+ account

Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data

The new service for transferring data offline matches similar services from competitors like Google and Amazon Web Services

HealthCare.gov’s enrollment system crashes

More service interruptions are likely, government officials say

Microsoft unveils industry templates, special pricing for Dynamics CRM

The vendor also reaffirms the pending availability of Dynamics AX on the Windows Azure cloud service

Botched Windows USB driver patch KB 2862330 triggers BSOD 0x000000D1 or 0x000000CA

Last month MS13-081/KB 2862330 went down the automatic update chute, triggering blue screens and endless re-installs. It still isn't fixed

The truth about Samsung Knox for Android security

The higher-level security technology for select Android devices isn't really available yet, despite the hype