Jack McCarthy, CRN, January 17, 2013, 1330 hrs

Oracle has launched a cloud infrastructure as a service that companies can manage on-premise in their own private cloud.

Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle first announced the cloud service, called Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (Oracle IaaS) with capacity on demand, on October 1, 2012 at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

"True cloud means we have to own the infrastructure, we have to manage the infrastructure, [and] we have to upgrade the infrastructure," Ellison said when the service was announce at the conference.

The Oracle cloud infrastructure service will allow businesses

As wireless operators and cable companies see their Wi-Fi networks as strategic assets will they start charging customers more to use them in an effort to generate revenue?

Wi-Fi is quickly becoming a key part of almost every broadband providers' network strategy. But is the day soon coming when Wi-Fi will no longer be free?

That's a big unanswered question as operators signal they'd like to get more value out of their Wi-Fi networks.

According to a recent survey from Analysys Mason, on behalf of Amdocs, more wireless and cable operators than ever have deployed Wi-Fi networks. But many of

Apple said today it will discuss its financial performance for its fiscal second quarter 2013 in a conference call on April 23.

The call, which as usual will be streamed, is expected to cover the company's revenue and sales figures. CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will likely be on hand to provide a financial forecast for the next quarter.

The iPhone maker recorded a monster first quarter of 2013, posting revenue of .5 billion and earnings of .1 billion on sales of 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads. That was just below the .7 billion that Wall

Window 8 Interesting Tips & Tricks 2

Know your hot corners?

The corners on your screen are hot corners and give you access to different Windows features. Below, is a brief explanation of each of these corners.

Bottom Left-hand corner
The bottom left-hand hot corner of the screen will allow you to access the Start screen, if you're in the Start screen and have the Desktop open, this corner will open the Desktop from the Start screen.

Tip: Right-clicking in the left hand corner will open the power user menu.

Top-left corner of the screen
Moving the mouse to the

Running two apps side by side
Any app can be pinned to the left or right-hand side of the screen. For example, open the People app and then press the Windows Key + . (period) to move that app to the right-hand side of the screen, pressing the same keys again will move it to the left-hand side, and pressing the same keys again will make it full screen. While an app is pinned, any other app or program can be opened and loaded into the available space on the screen. For example, in the below picture, we've opened a browser window