Sorry Intel: Your Next-Gen Haswell Chip Won't Rescue The PC Market
Intel's latest and greatest, dubbed Haswell, is an evolutionary improvement for a market that needs revolution.
Antone Gonsalves
A journalist for more than 25 years, Antone Gonsalves has covered general, business and technology news for a wire service, magazines and websites. He started his career with United Press International, working as a reporter in Kansas and later as an editor in charge of news coverage in Florida and California. At the height of the Internet boom in the late '90s, Gonsalves moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a business technology reporter and editor for PC Week, InformationWeek and TechWeb. Gonsalves is also a contributing writer for Bloomberg.com and Businessweek.com.
Articles by Antone Gonsalves
Mon, 3 June 2013
Mon, 13 May 2013
Beware: We May Be Entering The Age Of Cybersabotage
Where hackers were once satisfied with stealing sensitive data, they now seem as bent on sabotage. Government officials say a new wave of…
Fri, 3 May 2013
The Smart TV Is Dead. Long Live The Second Screen
Turns out that people mostly just want to use their television sets to, y'know, watch TV. So much for the smart TV. Instead, tablets are…
Mon, 29 April 2013
Why Security Holes In Critical Infrastructure Systems Are So Darn Hard To Fix
Complexity rules in the perplexing world of securing critical business and industrial systems.
Wed, 24 April 2013
How Hackers Steal Trade Secrets By Targeting Smaller Companies
Verizon's annual data breach investigation finds that Chinese hackers are going after small organizations in order to steal the trade…
Fri, 19 April 2013
Why IBM Should Dump Its Low-End Server Business On Lenovo
For IBM, the sale would provide an exit out of a low-margin, commodity business, while Lenovo would immediately become the third largest x86…
Thu, 18 April 2013
Hey, The FTC Might Finally Break The Carriers' Android-Update Logjam
The ACLU wants wireless carriers to provide timely Android updates to improve smartphone security — and the FTC appears likely to agree.
Tue, 16 April 2013
Your Next Big Security Headache: Your Wireless Router
Hackers have mostly ignored home wireless routers, but times are changing and the need to lock down your hardware is…
Tue, 9 April 2013
Would You Talk To An Ad On Your Smartphone?
As absurd as it may sound, chatting with ads could become commonplace as speech-communication with computers continues to evolve.
Fri, 5 April 2013
Many Free Android Apps Are Starting To Look A Lot Like Malware
Free Android apps are helping themselves to generous portions of your personal data — just like malware!
Wed, 3 April 2013
EMC & VMware Vs. Amazon: The Empire Strikes Back
With Amazon Web Services dominating the cloud, EMC and VMware launch Pivotal to steer customers into their cloud and away from the online…
Wed, 27 March 2013
Why Intel TV Is Just Another Doomed Lunge At The Consumer Market
Intel's plans to launch a pay-TV service is likely to end as disastrously as its other stabs at the consumer electronics market. Remember…
Mon, 25 March 2013
No More Wild West For Bring Your Own Devices
The Wild West days of BYOD are nearing an end, as companies are expected to impose more restrictions on the mobile devices you bring to…
Tue, 19 March 2013
The Enterprise Tablet Party Is Over For Apple
A new study shows the advantages of the latest Windows tablets from Dell, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard over Apple's tablets are too numerous…
Mon, 18 March 2013
Whose Fault Is It When Your PC Gets Hacked? Probably Not Microsoft's
A new study finds that Microsoft products account for only 14% of current PC vulnerabilities. The rest belong to third-party applications.
Wed, 13 March 2013
Pay-As-You-Read E-Bookselling Won't Make It Off The Shelves
Rather than revolutionize publishing, pay-as-you-read from startup Total Boox is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Thu, 7 March 2013
AT&T/Verizon Challenge Tech Companies' Commitment To National Security
The IT industry - think Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and more - is resisting efforts that would label IT as part of the nation's…
Tue, 5 March 2013
IBM Makes OpenStack The Cloud Platform To Beat
IBM's decision to make the open-source platform OpenStack the foundation for all its cloud services and software leaves OpenStack's main…
Mon, 4 March 2013
The 9 Top Threats Facing Cloud Computing
The Cloud Security Alliances's latest survey show a rising fear of cybercriminals, among eight other threats facing the cloud computing…
Thu, 28 February 2013
Hey! iOS Apps Play Faster And Looser With Your Privacy Than Android
The latest study from Appthority found that far more free iOS apps gathered location data, grabbed contact lists and siphoned information…
Tue, 26 February 2013
FTC To Smartphone Makers: Fix Security Or End Up Like HTC
A recent FTC settlement with HTC puts mobile device manufacturers on notice that they will be held responsible for securing customer data…
Fri, 22 February 2013
We're Not In A Cyberwar With China, And Here's Why
It's time to put aside jingoistic discussions of cyberwar and approach China as a political and economic rival that can be swayed from bad…
Wed, 20 February 2013
Cisco Attacks Microsoft Lync, But Will Anyone Care?
Feeling the competition from Microsoft Lync, Cisco launches a sordid campaign to tout its unified communications platform over its rival's.
Mon, 18 February 2013
Who's Right In The Oracle-Forrester Slugfest?
Oracle has blasted an unfavorable Forrester report, calling it a "speculative note based on misconceptions."
