Microsoft demos simple cloud-enabling of mobile apps with Azure Mobile Services

Looking to cloud-enable your mobile app? Looks like Microsoft can help make that a lot easier.

AMD adds ARM processors to its server chip offerings

AMD is teaming up with ARM to deliver 64-bit server chips.

Google blows Apple’s iTunes Match out of the digital music water … in Europe first

Free is the ultimate weapon -- for the world's biggest advertising company.

Hurricane Sandy is no match for New York City’s tech startups

Here's why extreme weather condition are not flustering New York City's entrepreneurs

Last call for CloudBeat Innovation Showdown (deadline extended to Wed.)

At our CloudBeat 2012 conference (Nov. 28-29), we’re holding an “Innovation Showdown” to showcase the coolest, most disruptive products leveraging the cloud.

The original deadline for nominations was today, but we’re extending it for a few days to accommodate last-minute …

Windows 8 stuns, amazes, and sometimes lets us down (review)

Windows 8 represents the future of Microsoft and the PC itself. Now that it's ready for purchase, we take a hard look at the OS to help you decide whether you should buy it.

Hold the phone! Amid routine layoffs, Buddy Media is no ‘money pit’

Reality check: After two acquisitions of companies in a similar space, layoffs are a matter of course.

Robert Scoble and Guy Kawasaki on the tech trends that will shape the future

Investor and author Guy Kawasaki joined Rackspace's renowned technology evangelist Robert Scoble for a frank discussion about the biggest technology trends.

Zend’s Andi Gutmans on PHP 6 & how Apple is the ‘biggest barrier’ to mobile’s future

"I believe web technologies will ultimately win within 3-5 years. The main barrier today is probably Apple."

Yottabyte launches its ambitious OS to ‘deliver on the intent of the cloud’

Michigan-based Yottabyte claims to have a cloud-based operating system to control and manage virtually anything.

PHP developers excited (mostly) about new mobile app development capabilities

PHP developers are looking forward to exercising their new powers. Hopefully, for good.

Cloudera’s Impala tool binds Hadoop with business intelligence apps

Cloudera's new product, known as "Impala", addresses many of the concerns that potential customers still have about Hadoop, namely that it does not integrate well with traditional business intelligence applications.

PHP developers, you MUST see this: creating a cloud-enabled native mobile app in 10 minutes or less in Zend Studio

Imagine designing and creating a native mobile app for iPhone or Android that connects to web services in about 10 minutes. Oh, and you're creating the web services at exactly the same time

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP

The rumors were true. Five million PHP developers will now be able to design and build mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.

Amazon EC2 cloud service mostly restored after yesterday’s big outage

Amazon's EC2 cloud service appears to be fully restored after yesterday's big outage, which took down sites and services including Reddit, Airbnb, Pinterest, Flipboard, GetGlue, Coursera, and Foursquare.

Cisco helps build first U.S. “Smart+Connected” city of the future in Lake Nona, Florida

Cisco is working with a community in Orlando, Florida to create a "Smart+Connected" city in Lake Nona, one of eight global iconic cities -- and the first in the U.S. -- built with ubiquitous connectivity and interconnected building, transportation, utility, and civic systems, for a truly smart, networked city created for innovation.