Mikael Ricknäs - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 17/05/2013 Google woos developers as software becomes more important

Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and th...

Article | 16/05/2013 Swedish domain admin comes out against Piratebay.se seizure

Swedish top-level domain administrator .SE has to its surprise become directly involved in the local Prosecution Authority's court case to seize thepi...

Article | 16/05/2013 Spiceworks' free management software gets integrated MDM

Spiceworks has teamed up with Fiberlink to add mobile device management functionality to the next version of its free network and IT management softwa...

Article | 16/05/2013 Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost

Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.

Article | 15/05/2013 Lenovo and Apple grew as bottom fell out of PC market in Western Europe

PC shipments in Western Europe declined by 20.5 percent during the first quarter: The only vendors to see shipments grow were Lenovo and Apple, which ...

Article | 15/05/2013 Nokia's Lumia 925 will use aluminium frame as antenna, go on sale in June

Nokia's new Lumia 925 phone has an aluminium frame that functions as an antenna, and is lighter and thinner than the Lumia 920, but otherwise offers s...

Article | 14/05/2013 SAP offers mobile device management for €1 per month on Amazon's cloud

A new cloud version of SAP's Afaria mobile device management software offers IT departments a more convenient way of controlling mobile devices.

Article | 13/05/2013 Samsung takes first 5G steps with advanced antenna

Samsung Electronics plans to use advanced antennas to boost the bandwidth in mobile networks by what it said was "several tens of Gbps per base statio...

Article | 10/05/2013 Nokia reboots Windows Phone push in the US but success will still be hard-won

Nokia's is rebooting its U.S. Windows Phone push with the arrival of the low-cost Lumia 521 on T-Mobile and Lumia 928 for Verizon Wireless, but increa...

Article | 10/05/2013 Nokia's Lumia 928 to sell via Verizon on May 16

Nokia has announced the long-rumored Lumia 928, which will be an exclusive to Verizon Wireless when it goes on sale next week.

Article | 9/05/2013 Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages

OnApp and Dell have teamed up to create pretested cloud packages for service providers and make it easier for them to roll out services, which could r...

Article | 9/05/2013 Nokia hopes new interface on Asha 501 will prop up phone business

Nokia has expanded its line of phones with the Asha 501, which comes with an improved touch user interface to help keep low-cost Android-based product...

Article | 8/05/2013 Google simplifies content management on its cloud storage service

Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by u...

Article | 8/05/2013 Nokia takes on Apple and Samsung with clip of Lumia 928's low-light video capabilities

Nokia has posted a video comparing the camera on the Lumia 928 with the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5, as it gets ready to launch the phone.

Article | 7/05/2013 Amazon adds to developer choices with JavaScript SDK for Web Services

The general release of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK for Node.js is available for download, allowing developers to build server-side applications ...