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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:37pm EST
The mobile world has been good to Linux, whose Android derivative has enjoyed a success that few could have predicted just a few short years ago.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:01pm EST
The growth in worldwide server shipments was slower than expected during the fourth quarter due to a shortage in the supply of hard drives, and the trend will continue into the first quarter this year, Gartner said in a study released on Thursday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:17pm EST
Having changed the underlying architecture of JavaFX, Oracle is discontinuing older versions of this platform for building RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). As a result, applications based on JavaFX 1.2 and JavaFX 1.3 will need to be updated to run on JavaFX 2.0 by the end of this year. "Companies and developers who have JavaFX 1.x applications in use today are strongly encouraged to migrate their applications to the JavaFX 2," an Oracle blog post announcing the discontinuation stated.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:56pm EST
Epicor is trying to stop Utah IT services firm Applied Integration from providing third-party support for its Dimensions software, alleging that the company has committed illegal acts in the course of doing so, according to a lawsuit filed this month in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Ericsson has joined OpenStack as part of its plan to serve operators that want to become cloud computing providers, the company said on Tuesday. OpenStack is an open-source community that develops software for private and public clouds. The Swedish telecommunications vendor will contribute to help develop OpenStack to support carrier-grade services and applications.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:03pm EST
RSA, the security division of EMC, today said it would collaborate with several mobile and virtualization platform vendors to integrate RSA two-factor authentication and risk-detection technologies.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:18pm EST
Micron Technology has bought out Intel's stake in two wafer factories that are part of a NAND joint venture between the two companies in a move they said will expand the supply of flash memory. Intel has sold its stake the factories in Singapore and Manassas, Virginia, to Micron for about $600 million. Intel will receive half the amount in cash, while the rest will be deposited with Micron and be applied toward future purchases.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:46pm EST
IBM has laid off just over 1,000 employees so far this week and more layoffs may be possible, according to an employee organization. IBM never comments on the specifics of any cuts, and the only reason that the company's job action is noticeable is due to the Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701, which gathers its data directly from IBM employees.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:05pm EST
Google's new privacy policy does not comply with European data protection law, and the company should delay its introduction pending an investigation of the changes, the French data privacy regulator told Google CEO Larry Page in a letter on Monday. But the company said once again that it will press ahead with the new policy, set to go live on Thursday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 11:14am EST
Mobile carriers embracing Wi-Fi is one of the sub-themes of Mobile World Congress. And the particular flavor of Wi-Fi that's generating buzz in Barcelona is 802.11ac, which promises to boost handset throughput to over 300Mbps.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:56am EST
Ericsson took a step to simplify carrier mobile networks on Tuesday, during a Mobile World Congress show where infrastructure is getting more complex.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:35am EST
Big smartphone vendors such as High Tech Computer (HTC) and LG Electronics are trying to get their mojo back after some challenging times, and they hope to do so by putting quad-core processors and big, high-definition screens in the products on show at Mobile World Congress. Here are five of the major hardware trends at this year's show:
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:29am EST
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) today announced an upgrade to its RamSan operating system that's designed to support high-speed access to large and small block data sets. The company also announced its next-generation multi-level cell NAND flash storage array, the RamSan 820, which offers enterprise-class hardware redundancy and 40Gbps InfiniBand connectivity.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:16am EST
At the RSA Conference Tuesday, Symantec announced general availability of its O3 cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) and authentication service, which adheres to a concept company CEO Enrique Salem outlined exactly a year ago at RSA 2011. Symantec also provided detail on future capabilities the O3 cloud service will have for data-loss prevention and encryption.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:03am EST
Malware authors are increasingly adopting flexible domain generation algorithms (DGAs) in order to evade detection and prevent their botnets from being shut down by security researchers or law enforcement agencies. DGAs are generally used as a fallback mechanism for sending instructions to infected computers when the hard-coded command and control (C&C) servers become unavailable.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 8:42am EST
Scientists at IBM Research today said they have achieved a major advance in quantum computing that will allow engineers to begin work on creating a full-scale quantum computer. The breakthrough allowed scientists to reduce data error rates in elementary computations while maintaining the integrity of quantum mechanical properties in quantum bits of data, known as qubits.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 8:09am EST
Career stress and burnout is as common among information security professionals as it is among professionals in other high-stress fields, such as medicine or law. But finding support and information on dealing with info sec career burnout is difficult because resources and knowledge are scant.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:31pm EST
Sensing the growing interest in devops, Microsoft will incorporate a number of new tools in its next edition of Visual Studio that will allow developers to work more closely with operations personnel.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:31pm EST
Sensing the growing interest in devops, Microsoft will incorporate a number of new tools in its next edition of Visual Studio that will allow developers to work more closely with operations personnel.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:42pm EST
Google will add support for Do Not Track to its Chrome browser by the end of this year. The move is a reversal for Google, which has resisted supporting the technology that lets users opt out of the online tracking conducted by websites and advertisers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:42pm EST
Google will add support for Do Not Track to its Chrome browser by the end of this year. The move is a reversal for Google, which has resisted supporting the technology that lets users opt out of the online tracking conducted by websites and advertisers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:59pm EST
An ongoing series of reviews by U.S. patent authorities has led to a new series of adverse rulings against Oracle's Java patent and a copyright lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Oracle and Google filed a joint update on the progress of a number of patent reexaminations, which had been requested by Google after Oracle filed suit in August 2010.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:59pm EST
An ongoing series of reviews by U.S. patent authorities has led to a new series of adverse rulings against Oracle's Java patent and a copyright lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Oracle and Google filed a joint update on the progress of a number of patent reexaminations, which had been requested by Google after Oracle filed suit in August 2010.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 11:57am EST
Move over Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. There's a new social site stealing some of your buzz: Pinterest, a social photo-sharing site that allows users to create and share collections of images. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the pinboard-styled service is focused on connecting people through the things they find interesting.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 11:57am EST
Move over Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. There's a new social site stealing some of your buzz: Pinterest, a social photo-sharing site that allows users to create and share collections of images. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the pinboard-styled service is focused on connecting people through the things they find interesting.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 10:38am EST
LG Electronics has launched the Optimus 4X HD smartphone, which is powered by a quad-core processor from Nvidia and runs Android 4.0, the company said on Thursday. The move from two to four cores in high-end smartphones is expected to be one of the big hardware trends at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which opens its doors on Monday.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 10:38am EST
LG Electronics has launched the Optimus 4X HD smartphone, which is powered by a quad-core processor from Nvidia and runs Android 4.0, the company said on Thursday. The move from two to four cores in high-end smartphones is expected to be one of the big hardware trends at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which opens its doors on Monday.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:56am EST
Apple, Google and other mobile platform providers will present privacy policies for all the apps offered in their stores as part of an agreement with the state of California. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced an agreement developed with mobile platform companies including Apple, Google, Research In Motion, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft, to ensure that all mobile apps will offer privacy policies that users can read before downloading the app.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:56am EST
Apple, Google and other mobile platform providers will present privacy policies for all the apps offered in their stores as part of an agreement with the state of California. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced an agreement developed with mobile platform companies including Apple, Google, Research In Motion, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft, to ensure that all mobile apps will offer privacy policies that users can read before downloading the app.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:39am EST
A request for a legal injunction that would have forced Apple to halt iPad sales in its Shanghai stores has been rejected, giving the U.S. tech giant a small victory as it faces an ongoing trademark dispute in China over the iPad name.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:39am EST
A request for a legal injunction that would have forced Apple to halt iPad sales in its Shanghai stores has been rejected, giving the U.S. tech giant a small victory as it faces an ongoing trademark dispute in China over the iPad name.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:27am EST
One of the challenges companies often face when using Hadoop to aggregate massive volumes of structured and unstructured data is finding a way to efficiently control and manage user access to that data. Zettaset, a Mountain View, Calif.-based vendor of tools for managing big data, on Wednesday announced a new security initiative to help companies address that issue.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:27am EST
One of the challenges companies often face when using Hadoop to aggregate massive volumes of structured and unstructured data is finding a way to efficiently control and manage user access to that data. Zettaset, a Mountain View, Calif.-based vendor of tools for managing big data, on Wednesday announced a new security initiative to help companies address that issue.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:14am EST
Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become "too complex and too slow," President and CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, offering a three-part turnaround plan to get the ailing company back on track. Speaking to analysts and investors after HP released its financial results, Whitman offered a frank assessment of HP's challenges at the end of her first full quarter on the job.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:14am EST
Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become "too complex and too slow," President and CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, offering a three-part turnaround plan to get the ailing company back on track. Speaking to analysts and investors after HP released its financial results, Whitman offered a frank assessment of HP's challenges at the end of her first full quarter on the job.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:55am EST
Prices of DDR3 DRAM memory used in laptops and desktops have dipped to an all-time low of around $1, and will continue to fall, which could help PC makers pack more memory into computers, analysts said. Average prices for predominant 2Gb (gigabit) DDR3 DRAM die hit the $1 mark during the first quarter, which is a massive drop from the average price of roughly $2.25 for the same memory in the first quarter last year, according to research firm iSuppli. A 4GB (gigabyte) DRAM module was priced between $18 and $20 at the end of 2011, a precipitous drop from $40 at the end of 2010.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:55am EST
Prices of DDR3 DRAM memory used in laptops and desktops have dipped to an all-time low of around $1, and will continue to fall, which could help PC makers pack more memory into computers, analysts said. Average prices for predominant 2Gb (gigabit) DDR3 DRAM die hit the $1 mark during the first quarter, which is a massive drop from the average price of roughly $2.25 for the same memory in the first quarter last year, according to research firm iSuppli. A 4GB (gigabyte) DRAM module was priced between $18 and $20 at the end of 2011, a precipitous drop from $40 at the end of 2010.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:50am EST
Microsoft is spending about $130 million to build a new datacenter in Dublin, as it needs more room to run cloud services there, the company said on Thursday. The expansion is a direct result of increased demand for cloud services such as Office 365, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Bing and Windows Azure in Europe, according to Microsoft.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:50am EST
Microsoft is spending about $130 million to build a new datacenter in Dublin, as it needs more room to run cloud services there, the company said on Thursday. The expansion is a direct result of increased demand for cloud services such as Office 365, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Bing and Windows Azure in Europe, according to Microsoft.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:29am EST
The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information websites collect about them and a right to see what data is being collected, officials there said.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:29am EST
The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information websites collect about them and a right to see what data is being collected, officials there said.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:00am EST
In 2012 a preferred IT candidate might be someone whose background is in business rather than technology and who has sought supplementary tech certifications. How can this be?
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:00am EST
In 2012 a preferred IT candidate might be someone whose background is in business rather than technology and who has sought supplementary tech certifications. How can this be?
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 5:53pm EST
Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google's Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 4:33pm EST
Oracle is alleging that two companies violated its intellectual property as part of a "gray market" conspiracy to provide support for Oracle's Sun Solaris OS and hardware, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint names managed services provider ServiceKey of Norcross, Georgia, as well as DLT Federal Business Systems Corporation, a Wilmington, Delaware, company that provides IT services to government agencies.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 4:23pm EST
Exploit code targeting a newly identified vulnerability in Symantec's pcAnywhere computer remote control product has been published on the Internet, exposing its users to possible attacks that disrupt the software's functionality. The code was published Friday on Pastebin by Johnathan Norman, director of security research at network security vendor Alert Logic, and can be used to crash an important pcAnywhere service called awhost32.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 1:16pm EST
The United States is the fourth friendliest country in the world for global cloud interoperability, according to a new study from the Business Software Alliance. But, the organization said a "patchwork" of laws and regulations around the world is holding back cloud adoption internationally.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 12:36pm EST
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for alleged abuse of essential patents. Microsoft Deputy General Counsel, Dave Heiner, said on his blog on Wednesday that Motorola was attempting to block sales of Windows PCs, Xbox game console and other Microsoft products. The news comes just a week after Apple made a similar complaint against Motorola Mobility.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 12:24pm EST
IBM is widely expanding the intelligence gathering functions available to its security-event management (SEM) product, QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, as well as designing a virtual-appliance version of it that works on the VMware platform.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 12:10pm EST
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an October privacy settlement with the agency, privacy group the Center for Digital Democracy said in a complaint filed Wednesday.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:40am EST
There are fewer topics stirring bigger buzz among information security professionals than big data, cloud security, and mobile. So it's no surprise that those topics will dominate the discussions this year at the RSA Conference 2012.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:35am EST
Office on the iPad is a foregone conclusion. It's been that way since Microsoft dipped its toe in the water with OneNote on iPhone a year ago, then crossed the Rubicon with OneNote, SkyDrive, and Lync on the iPad last December.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:51am EST
Amazon Web Services has launched Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which will allow enterprises to automate business processes across both cloud-based and on-premise applications, the company said on Tuesday. With SWF, developers get full control over implementing processing steps and coordinating the tasks that drive them, without worrying about underlying complexities such as tracking their progress and keeping their state, Amazon said.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:17am EST
SAP on Wednesday released details for its roadmap for HCM (human capital management) software following the $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors, which focuses on cloud-based applications.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:37am EST
The growing enterprise interest in big data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of the open source Apache Hadoop. The latest example is Teradata, which on Tuesday announced that it will work with Hortonworks to deliver products and services aimed at helping companies build big data analytics environments based on Hadoop. Hortonworks is a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based spin-off from Yahoo that distributes and supports a commercial version of Hadoop.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 7:46am EST
The Wi-Fi Alliance will launch a program to simplify the use of Wi-Fi hotspots in July, making it easier for both users and mobile operators to get off strained cellular networks. Users of smartphones, tablets, cameras and other Wi-Fi-equipped devices will be able to get onto hotspots without entering usernames or passwords, the group said in a white paper released on Tuesday. The paper outlined the program, called Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint, and said the first phase of certification tests will begin in July. A second phase beginning next year will add more features.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:00am EST
IBM reversed course on networking in 2010 when it acquired Blade Network Technologies, one of its key network suppliers. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix and Managing Editor Jim Duffy recently caught up with Vikram Mehta, founder of BNT and now vice president of IBM System Networking, for an update on IBM's network visions going forward. IBM divested its network operations more than decade ago, so why did it decide it had to get back into the business?
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:22pm EST
Shortly after two U.S. Congressmen asked Apple to answer questions about iPhone and iPad apps that snatch users' contact lists without permission, the Cupertino, Calif., company promised it will address the issue with a future software update. Earlier today, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking him about iOS apps that have harvested users' address book information without permission.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:09pm EST
Cisco will appeal the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's $8.5 billion Skype acquisition, saying the agency should demand that the companies support standards for interoperability with other collaboration platforms.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:00pm EST
Being owned by Google apparently won't help Motorola get its devices upgraded to Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" any more quickly. Google announced "Ice Cream Sandwich" in October, and the only smartphone to use it, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, shipped in November.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:23pm EST
Rackspace expects to soon announce commercial private OpenStack distributions that it will support as part of its Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition set of services. Rackspace launched Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition late last year to help businesses build and run private OpenStack clouds. As part of the offering, Rackspace defined a reference architecture that specified hardware and software options. Customers who use that reference architecture are eligible to sign up to use Rackspace's support services.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:23pm EST
Chipmaker Renesas Mobile has launched the MP5232, a processor that will allow vendors to build LTE (Long Term Evolution) smartphones with a price tag between $150 and $300, the company said on Wednesday. The big advantage of the 1.5GHz dual-core processor is that it is a single-chip product that can do both 3G and LTE, eliminating the need to use separate chipsets for the two technologies. A more integrated device results in a cheaper product that takes up less space and uses less power, according to Malik Saadi, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:59pm EST
Cryptography researchers collected millions of X.509 public-key certificates that are publicly available over the web and found what they say is a shockingly high frequency of duplicate RSA-moduli keys.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:44pm EST
Israel-based startup Porticor launches this week with technology aimed at giving enterprises a way to encrypt data held in cloud computing services, including those from Amazon and Rackspace.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:30pm EST
Norton today released an updated version of its Norton 360 desktop and mobile security software, while also rolling out a new licensing arrangement for combined PC, Mac, and Android use.In addition, Norton announced a novel plan for a new kind of customer support called "Norton One" that involves individualized unlimited assistance for customers who are mystified by computers, security, and software -- if they're willing to pay the annual membership fee.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:07pm EST
OCZ Technology today released a PCIe NAND flash server card with up to 16GB of capacity, more than five times its predecessor.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:08am EST
Just when you got used to Windows 7, Microsoft is threatening to ship Windows 8. The first public beta is slated to be released at the end of this month, with a final ship date rumored to be in October. So, what does Windows 8 mean for you?
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:03am EST
If you work for Microsoft, yesterday was a very good day to go home sick.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 10:25am EST
Rackspace hopes to make it easier to use its OpenStack private cloud offering by partnering with Redapt, a company that procures, configures and ships servers to customers. "One challenge we have is how to handle the physical setup in [the customer's] environment," said Jim Curry, general manager for Rackspace Cloud Builders. "This is what Redapt is an expert at."
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:29am EST
Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases. MySQL Cluster 7.2, released for general availability Wednesday, "is a huge step forward for MySQL Cluster, taking it further into the Web market," said Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL engineering for Oracle.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:51am EST
An online encryption method widely used to protect banking, email, e-commerce and other sensitive Internet transactions is not as secure as assumed, according to a report issued by a team of U.S and European cryptanalysts.The researchers reviewed millions of public keys used by websites to encrypt online transactions, and found a small but significant number to be vulnerable to compromise.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:32am EST
Apple's much speculated iPad 3 has emerged as the latest target in an ongoing trademark dispute in China, after a little-known Chinese firm said on Wednesday it has filed for a customs ban with local authorities to stop the import and export of the tablet. Ma Dongxiao, a lawyer for display vendor Proview, said the company has filed the request with the country's custom offices, but declined to offer details. "We feel that Apple is infringing on the iPad trademark," he said, adding that the company's goal was to stop shipments of Apple's next generation iPad.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:19am EST
Hewlett-Packard and Intel are rethinking processor upgrades in servers, coming up with a new chip-slotting technique that could reduce the chance of errors, and ultimately prevent system failure.The Smart Socket technology in HP's new Gen8 servers revolves around the integration of a clamp on the motherboard to mechanically upgrade processors. Instead of manually placing a processor inside a socket, a clamp with the processor can be pushed down on the improvised socket for a safer chip upgrade.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:00am EST
If malware were biological, the world would be in the grip of the worst pandemic in history. In 2009, more than 25 million unique malware programs were identified, more than all the malware programs ever created in all previous years. No one need wonder what all that malware is trying to do: It's trying to steal money -- through data theft, bank transfers, stolen passwords, or swiped identities.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:02pm EST
Hewlett-Packard's Vertica subsidiary has updated its real-time analytics software, giving it a graphical user interface and connectivity to big-data-styled analysis systems.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 4:15pm EST
JetBrains has made a preliminary version of Kotlin, its statically compiled language that compiles to Java Virtual Machine byte code and JavaScript, available via open source, the company said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:28pm EST
Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control. The plan, whose details are still being worked out, is Mozilla's response to Trustwave's recent claim that the use of such certificates for SSL traffic management within corporate networks is a common practice.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:09pm EST
Intel on Tuesday introduced the Crystal Forest chipset, which the company hopes will fill a networking gap as it tries to build an integrated technology stack for data centers. The chipset has specific hardware and software-driven features that could speed up data processing on a network, said Steve Price, director of marketing for Intel's Communications Infrastructure Division. The chipset could aggregate network data quicker from servers inside data centers without compromising performance or security.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 12:23pm EST
Alcatel-Lucent is integrating Wi-Fi with mobile networks with its lightRadio architecture, allowing users to move seamlessly between the two networks and authenticate using the SIM card, the company said on Tuesday. As mobile data demands have increased, mobile operators have increasingly turned to Wi-Fi as a means to handle growing traffic volumes. It has now come to the point where many operators no longer have a choice, but have to use Wi-Fi, according to Parker Moss, vice president of Wireless Marketing at Alcatel-Lucent.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 11:56am EST
The Document Foundation on Tuesday announced the availability of LibreOffice 3.5, which it described as the third major release of the open-source productivity suite derived from the OpenOffice.org codebase.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 11:16am EST
Hadoop is all the rage, it seems.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:54am EST
Can a security startup based in Bedford, N.H., which relies on Russian cryptography expertise from Moscow, bring about a revolution in the way that users authenticate to gain access to websites today and secure data?
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:37am EST
In a move that's unlikely to sit well with privacy advocates, the FBI has begun scouting for a tool that will allow it to gather and mine data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The goal is to use the tool to keep on top of breaking events, incidents and emerging threats, the agency said in a recent Request for Information (RFI) from IT vendors.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:31am EST
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will "include" four Office apps with Windows on ARM has analysts parsing the news like intelligence agencies that once tried to figure out what went on inside the Kremlin by poring over photos of who stood where on the Red Square reviewing stand.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:59am EST
Hewlett-Packard will be showing new smartphone and tablet applications for Apple's iOS and Google's Android that will allow system administrators to remotely control and configure servers, the company said on Monday. The company's applications will not only provide information about the health of servers, but also allow system administrators to remotely manage or shut down servers, said John Gromala, director of modular systems product marketing, during an interview at the HP Global Partner Conference being held in Las Vegas.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:51am EST
More than 30 offices across China of a commerce regulatory body are investigating Apple's sales of the iPad in the country, according to the lawyer for the little-known Chinese company that has accused Apple of trademark infringement. Authorities in one Chinese city, Shijiazhuang, have reportedly gone as far as to seize iPad tablets from local merchants, after Proview filed a complaint claiming ownership of the iPad trademark.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:39am EST
Calling a thin client a device for power users may seem like an oxymoron, but Hewlett-Packard is giving it a try. HP Monday released two thin client devices, including one it says is a potential replacement for desktops used by knowledge workers. The update is the first to HP thin clients in two years.[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:27am EST
Startup StopTheHacker makes its debut Monday with a set of services for detecting malicious code implanted in websites by hackers who compromise sites to try to launch attacks on visitors to infected Web pages.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:15pm EST
AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds. AT&T’s goal is to ease the transition for enterprises to upgrade from a private cloud to a hybrid cloud system using AT&T’s network to provide addition storage and compute power.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:43pm EST
The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about $12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day. Google is still waiting for approvals from China, Israel, and Taiwan before the deal is final. Canada's investigation is also ongoing. The search giant still says it hopes the acquisition will close in "early 2012."
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 4:54pm EST
Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced Gen8, its next generation of servers, which integrate new technologies designed to cut overall maintenance and power costs in data centers while maintaining high server uptimes. Gen8 servers have new hardware and software technology for better performance-per-watt and a reduction in the manual labor involved in updating servers, HP said. The automatic updating and server load-balancing features will help save millions of dollars over a three-year span, HP said.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 3:55pm EST
Got your "big data" plan in place? If not, you may want to think about implementing one. Big data is being hailed -- or hyped, depending on your point of view -- as a key strategic business asset of the future. That means it's only a matter of time before the suits in the corner office want to know IT's thoughts on the matter.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 3:19pm EST
Mozilla said yesterday that it will build a "proof-of-concept" version of Firefox for Windows 8's Metro touch-first interface next quarter, then follow that with more functional editions later in the year.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 3:01pm EST
European regulators have given Google the green light to take over Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion deal faced strong opposition from open-source and consumer rights advocates, but the European Commission -- the European Union's executive arm -- announced today that the acquisition could go ahead, without conditions.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:05pm EST
Nimbula is hoping to better serve enterprises with version 2.0 of its operating system, which adds compatibility with VMware's hypervisor and other new features. Nimbula Director 2.0, like its predecessor, is software used by businesses and service providers to build cloud infrastructure.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:40am EST
Freelance writer Susan Perschke recently sat down with Cisco Vice President and Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart for an in-depth discussion of the state of enterprise security.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:40am EST
Freelance writer Susan Perschke recently sat down with Cisco Vice President and Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart for an in-depth discussion of the state of enterprise security.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:34am EST
There's a new development platform on the market, and it boasts outstanding developer support.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:33am EST
For the third consecutive release of Firefox, Mozilla has pushed users a patch shortly after launching a new version of the browser. On Friday, Mozilla updated Firefox to 10.0.1 to patch a crash bug that "may be potentially exploitable" by attackers. The company rated the vulnerability as "critical," its highest threat ranking.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:15am EST
Hadoop is coming out of the shadows and into production in IT shops that are drawn to its ability to store, process and analyze extremely large volumes of data. But the relative newness of the open-source platform and a shortage of experienced Hadoop talent pose technical challenges that enterprise IT teams need to address.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:58am EST
Uptime Software is the latest company aiming to help eliminate bill shock for cloud users. UptimeCloud is a new hosted cloud cost-monitoring service for Amazon Web Services users. The service is meant to help users predict and manage spending on AWS.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:46am EST
Startup Starboard Storage Systems today came out of quiet mode with its first product: a storage array that discerns between structured and unstructured data in order to tailor I/O performance. It's also designed for use in virtualized server environments.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:14am EST
Apple has asked a federal court in California for an order enjoining Motorola Mobility from suing the company in other courts for patent infringement in connection with its use of chips from Qualcomm in its products. The maker of the iPhone and iPad is concerned that Motorola will bring the iPhone 4S into a patent infringement lawsuit it has filed against Apple in the U.S., as it has tried to do in Germany.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:00am EST
In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 Web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method cyber criminals use to install viruses and spyware, and otherwise take control of unsuspecting end-users' computers.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 7:47pm EST
In an 8,600-word epistle yesterday, Microsoft's top Windows executive pulled aside the curtain on the first version of the company's iconic OS that targets tablets. Dubbed "Windows on ARM," or WOA for short, the new edition is a cousin, perhaps one or two or even three times removed, of the still-under-construction Windows 8 for traditional PCs.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:17pm EST
Anyone making a road trip across America should expect their mobile data service to basically not exist throughout much of the Western United States.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:36pm EST
Encouraged by the success of its Web and Chromium vulnerability reward programs, Google has decided to expand their scope in order to cover security issues in Chromium OS as well. "By all available measures, the program has been a big success," said Google Security Team technical program manager Adam Mein about the company's Web vulnerability reward program, in a blog post on Thursday.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:25pm EST
Got remote access? Lock it down
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 11:49am EST
A German court has thrown out a Motorola Mobility patent lawsuit against Apple, breaking a recent run of courtroom successes for the company. The patent enforcement action was dismissed, a spokesman for the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said Friday.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 11:09am EST
A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:25am EST
Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company. "All of our customers have been in the high-performance computing market. With big data, we wanted to set apart a division of the company really attuned to the enterprise customer," Cray president and CEO Peter Ungaro said.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:05am EST
These are dark days for Research In Motion (RIM) and its BlackBerry brand ... or at least dim ones. The Canadian company is struggling with an increasingly negative market perception, shrinking customer loyalty as longtime BlackBerry users move on, and stiff competition from rivals, including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among other things. (Read more details on why 2012 could be a particularly tough year for RIM and BlackBerry.)
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 7:51am EST
Microsoft on Thursday said it would deliver nine security updates next week, four of them critical, to patch 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, .Net, and Silverlight. This year's February Patch Tuesday will feature three fewer updates and one less patch than 2011's.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 7:41am EST
A jury in Texas gave the verdict that two patents of Eolas Technologies that enable Internet browsers to host embedded interactive applications were invalid, in a protracted legal battle which involved top Internet companies like Google and Amazon.com.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:00am EST
The growing importance of reliable applications in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for APM (application performance management) vendors, some of which have taken full advantage lately.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:00am EST
Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual Machine.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:00am EST
Google Wallet users might want to stick to plastic and paper for a while.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:33pm EST
Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds. This will be the first product offering from Cloudscaling, which built its business as a services company that helped others design and create their cloud infrastructures.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:37pm EST
The New York attorney general settled an antitrust case it brought against Intel in 2009, the chipmaker announced on Thursday. While Intel said it doesn't admit to any violations of the law or that allegations in the suit are true, it did agree to pay $6.5 million to cover some of the litigation costs incurred by the New York attorney general and some nonstate public entities involved in the suit.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:03pm EST
Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for laptops and other computers that use ARM chips. Called WOA (for Windows on ARM), the Windows 8 variation is still under development. This means that there won't be a universal version of Windows 8 for Intel x86-based and ARM-based devices.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:28pm EST
Google is at odds with Apple, Microsoft, and Cisco over the licensing and litigation of patents. While Google wants to make the most of patents it will receive if its acquisition of Motorola is approved, the others want to change the way so-called essential patents are licensed.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:06am EST
A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open source development model, according to researchers from cyber threat management firm Seculert. Called Citadel, the new piece of malware is based on ZeuS, one of the oldest and most popular online banking Trojans. ZeuS was abandoned by its creator in late 2010, and its source code leaked online a few months later.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:06am EST
A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development model, according to researchers from cyberthreat management firm Seculert. Called Citadel, the new piece of malware is based on ZeuS, one of the oldest and most popular online banking Trojans. ZeuS was abandoned by its creator in late 2010 and its source code leaked online a few months later.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:23am EST
Cyber security experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:50am EST
Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly $1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for $3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close. "Human capital management has become a strategic initiative for organizations," said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Development, in a statement. "Taleo's industry leading talent management cloud is an important addition to the Oracle Public Cloud."
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:41am EST
Google promised radical technology proposals would be a part of its Solve for X project, and its initial offerings so far haven't disappointed.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:25am EST
Microsoft on Wednesday said it will host a launch event for the Windows 8 beta on Feb. 29 in Barcelona, the site of the Mobile World Congress. Previously, Microsoft had promised that it would distribute a public beta -- the company used the label "Consumer Preview" instead -- in "late February." Wednesday, Feb. 29 is the last day of the month.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:25am EST
Microsoft today said it will host a launch event for the Windows 8 beta on Feb. 29 in Barcelona, the site of the Mobile World Congress. Previously, Microsoft had promised that it would distribute a public beta -- the company used the label "Consumer Preview" instead -- in "late February." Wednesday, Feb. 29 is the last day of the month.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:52am EST
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, asking a court to force the agency to take action against Google over planned changes in the company's collection of personal data.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:52am EST
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, asking a court to force the agency to take action against Google over planned changes in the company's collection of personal data.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:35am EST
The changes Samsung Electronics has made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1N are enough to no longer infringe on Apple's intellectual property rights, a judge at the district court in Düsseldorf, Germany, decided on Thursday. The verdict was expected, since the court delivered the same preliminary decision in December last year.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:28am EST
Amid widespread concern about its new privacy policies, Google is now facing criticism over an offer to give users Amazon gift certificates if they open their Web movements to the company in a program called Screenwise. Google says the program launched "near the beginning of the year," but the company's low-key offer was disclosed Tuesday night on the blog Search Engine Land.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:28am EST
Amid widespread concern about its new privacy policies, Google is now facing criticism over an offer to give users Amazon gift certificates if they open their Web movements to the company in a program called Screenwise. Google says the program launched "near the beginning of the year," but the company's low-key offer was disclosed Tuesday night on the blog Search Engine Land.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:00am EST
It is commonplace in our industry to refer to the applications and other functionality that IT delivers to users as "services." We talk about the performance of the "IT services" to the desktop. We talk about the "service catalog" that we offer the business. We even claim to have "service-oriented architectures."
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:00am EST
Jealous of Apple's gargantuan revenues lately? It recently raked in $13.1 billion in quarterly profits, thanks in no small part to the company's popular iPad and iPhone.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:31pm EST
Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:18pm EST
Google today patched 20 vulnerabilities in the desktop edition of Chrome and added new anti-malware download warnings to version 17. The company called out a pair of new features in Chrome 17, including the expansion of anti-malware download warnings and pre-rendering of pages suggested by the address/search bar's auto-complete function.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:04pm EST
Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market. Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro have identified a developer named Rovio MobiIe Ltd. in the Android Market, which had a significant number of rogue applications in its portfolio.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:45pm EST
Femtocell developer Airvana is charging Ericsson with breaching their contract over femtocell technology, in a lawsuit (PDF) filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Femtocells like those Airvana developed extend capacity and coverage of mobile networks, which are under increasing strain. The market for such technologies has grown rapidly over the past few years as the use of mobile phones for both voice and data access has also grown.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:19pm EST
Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow. Browsers currently check if a website's SSL certificate has been revoked by its issuing Certificate Authority (CA) when trying to establish an HTTPS connection. These checks are done by querying CA-operated servers through a special protocol known as OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol).
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:42pm EST
Enterprise coders can now use an open source Web application that lets them consolidate software vulnerability data from a range of scanning and test tools. With a centralized view, and reporting and management tools, ThreadFix speeds the work needed to fix software bugs and vulnerabilities, including those in proliferating mobile apps.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:22pm EST
Rambus and Nvidia have settled past lawsuits and signed a patent agreement covering a broad range of integrated circuit products, Rambus said on Wednesday. Under the patent agreement, Nvidia will be able to use Rambus technology in its products. The patent agreement is for five years. A Rambus spokeswoman declined to provide financial terms of the agreement.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:17pm EST
European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred. If successfully translated to a storage product, the new technology alone would theoretically cut the time to store a bit of data on a hard disk drive from a nanosecond -- a billionth of a second -- to a hundred-billionth of a second.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:53am EST
Aren't you glad you didn't rush out and buy an Ultrabook?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:35am EST
When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave -- and more are on the way.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:00am EST
Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy on SSL-protected connections within its corporate network, an action that prompted the Mozilla community to debate whether the CA's root certificate should be removed from Firefox.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:00am EST
Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy on SSL-protected connections within its corporate network, an action that prompted the Mozilla community to debate whether the CA's root certificate should be removed from Firefox.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:46am EST
Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:15am EST
Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices. The international environmental organization gave its most favorable ratings to Silicon Valley stalwarts Cisco Systems and Google as well as to Swedish mobile vendor Ericcson, U.K. mobile company Vodafone and Japanese hardware company Fujitsu.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:04am EST
In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing center that will one day house exascale systems. The DOE doesn't know what an exascale system will look like. The types of chips, the storage, the networking, and programming methods that will go into these systems are all works in progress.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:30am EST
Google is planning to send a letter to standards setting organizations, stating that Motorola Mobility's standards-essential patents will continue to be available on FRAND terms after its acquisition of the company, a person close to the situation said late Tuesday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:18pm EST
As part of an ongoing effort to recover from a downward spiral, Yahoo said on Tuesday that four board members, including its chairman, will step down. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang left the board earlier this month. With the additional departures announced today -- including that of chairman Roy Bostock -- more than half of the board's membership will be fresh blood.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:42pm EST
Internet Explorer 9 should be the go-to browser for organizations concerned about protecting machines from malicious downloads, according to a new study from NSS Labs: Microsoft's browser trounced rivals Chrome, Firefox, and Saf
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:42pm EST
Internet Explorer 9 should be the go-to browser for organizations concerned about protecting machines from malicious downloads, according to a new study from NSS Labs: Microsoft's browser trounced rivals Chrome, Firefox, and Saf
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:21pm EST
Google today began offering a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android smartphones, finally beginning the move to unify its computer, tablet, and smartphone browsers. The browser, however, is only available for smartphones and tablets running Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." As of Feb. 1, just 1 percent of Android devices in use are running "Ice Cream Sandwich."
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:57pm EST
VMware has introduced a new software platform that makes it easier for service providers to wholesale their cloud-services infrastructure to other providers.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:26pm EST
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:00pm EST
From the start, Google's Safe Browsing API was designed to spot malicious Web pages so users wouldn't get trapped in them. Google identifies these sites through its own algorithms and user notification.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:09pm EST
Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday. The company clearly wants to distract SAP by forcing it to go through another bruising battle in court, they said.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:11pm EST
The U.S. Congress should scrap two controversial copyright enforcement bills and start over with attempts to target foreign websites accused of infringement and counterfeiting, more than 70 groups have said. With widespread concerns about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), Congress needs to "take a breath, step back, and approach the issues from a fresh perspective," the groups said in a letter to lawmakers, sent Monday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:00pm EST
With the ongoing rollout of Facebook's Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 12:11pm EST
SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite. The products will be sold through partners to the market segment, among which SAP counts more than 96,000 customers, or 79 percent of its total base, said Eric Duffaut, president of global ecosystem and channels, during a conference call with press and analysts.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:28am EST
Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday. "Essentially what we are providing is network-attached storage in the cloud," said Tom Trainer, storage product marketing manager at Red Hat.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:23am EST
Microsoft has entered into a broad partnership with customer-service software provider 24/7 that the companies expect will yield a superior cloud-based platform that large companies can use to better address their customers' needs. As part of the deal, 24/7 will get access to Microsoft's TellMe speech-recognition and interactive self-service software, which will get integrated into 24/7's Predictive Experience products, such as Px Online for Web self-service customer attention, the Px Speech voice-based customer service tool and Px Mobile for mobile-device-based support.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:03am EST
Hewlett-Packard's LoadRunner performance validation software will become available on a hosted basis through HP partners, the company announced Tuesday. LoadRunner software emulates hundreds or thousands of concurrent users so that businesses can test how their application will behave under heavy loads. It identifies where bottlenecks are happening so that users can correct problems that may be impacting application performance.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:37am EST
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world. The data center was built for an Indian company, Tulip Telecom, which will make physical data center space available for clients. It will also provide cloud infrastructure services using IBM systems.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:28am EST
An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:01am EST
Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about $1 billion by a federal court in September last year. The company rejected the Judge's ruling lowering the jury verdict, and chose a new trial, Oracle's attorney, Geoffrey M. Howard said in a filing Monday before the United States District Court, Northern District of California, Oakland division.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:26am EST
Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:09am EST
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. "It happened so recently that we're still in the process of analyzing and won't be able to confirm until the morning," a spokesman said via email.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:00am EST
Change can often be slow. It took many years for the Mac to begin to even threaten the PC in the enterprise. It is still a slow process, but Apple is making up ground on Microsoft. For many years, Macs were perceived as being more for the creative folks, such as art designers, but had no role in a workplace where data processing was the main job. So when companies made bulk purchases, they turned to Windows and Office. But the times they are a changin'. According to IDC, Apple’s U.S. market share for the quarter ended Sept. 30 jumped from 10.5 percent to 11.3 percent.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:35pm EST
Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). "What we see is more and more people are looking to take advantage of the GPU in their applications," said Tony Goodhew, a Microsoft product manager for Visual Studio.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:36pm EST
Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:24pm EST
Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday denied Google's petition over the email, which was written by Google engineer Tim Lindholm, according to information on the court's website. The text of the court's decision was not immediately available.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:35pm EST
Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:54pm EST
Anyone wanting to buy mobile device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software when used to manage Google Android devices, for instance.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:39pm EST
Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date. In December, SAP announced that the launch of the new SAP Community Network, originally planned for that month, would be pushed forward to early this year due to various technical problems.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:08pm EST
The blogosphere lit up over the weekend with screenshots of the latest almost-ready-for-Customer-Preview version of Windows 8, known as Build 8220.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:38am EST
A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems, and added costs.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:52am EST
Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5. The Backup Exec 2012 version includes a new user interface that can automatically configure backups based on the most common policies and settings used by Symatec customers.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:37am EST
Microsoft is gearing up to release a phalanx of native mobile applications for its CRM software, with clients aimed at BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, iOS, and Android 2.2 and higher devices, the company announced Monday. The release, which is scheduled for the second quarter as part of Microsoft's regular CRM (customer relationship management) service update, will also build on existing browser support with Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, running on Macs, iPads, and Windows PCs.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:20am EST
Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday. Qasmi, a private citizen, had filed a civil suit against Google and other Internet companies including Facebook, objecting to certain content on their websites. The content is said to mock gods worshipped in India. He is now pressing the companies to put in place technology for filtering out content that is considered objectionable.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:12am EST
Launched four years ago, the use of Wi-Fi on U.S. airlines has yet to catch on, with estimates that the wireless technology is still used by only 7 percent of the flying public. There are a number of reasons: With Wi-Fi cropping up for free in many airports and public locations, passengers don't want to fork over as much as $10 for a flight of a few hours. Passengers also may not know when Wi-Fi is available on a flight since the airlines provide the wireless service on only a small percentage of their planes.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:46am EST
One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:30am EST
Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs. The service is available initially for Amazon Web Services customers, and Cloudyn plans to add support for Rackspace in the second quarter, and other providers after that. The service will be free until May 1, after which customers will have to pay for the optimization recommendations. Anyone can sign up for the service now.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:13am EST
Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM technology in future AMD chips. AMD said last week it will allow the integration of third-party intellectual property in future processors, as part of a new plan to design purpose-built chips for customers. If a customer needs another architecture besides x86, AMD will combine its own intellectual property with that of a third party, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said in an interview.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:05pm EST
A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:14pm EST
The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is that innovation is coming out of the open source products at a quicker pace. But another expert doesn't quite believe that first to market is the key to success. He says this market is too important to be downloading open source bits frequently. With that dilemma, enterprises instead turn to commercially supported products.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:47pm EST
Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time," the company said in a statement. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:38pm EST
Details about Windows Phone 8 are bustin' out all over. And while those technical details are devastating for Windows Phone 7.5 "Tango" sales, there's a bigger picture.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:57am EST
The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-0830 and was discovered by Stefan Esser, an independent security consultant and creator of the popular Suhosin security extension for PHP.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:52am EST
Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:10am EST
Data routinely gathered in Web logs -- IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings -- can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. At the same time, analysis of such data when anonymized can help detect malicious activity and so improve overall Internet security, they add.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:48am EST
H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group. The report by two economists at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, also found that, on average, H-1B workers are about 10 years younger than U.S. born workers.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:31am EST
Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. This technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:13am EST
Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS. The promotion, announced on Twitter by Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president for developer relations, comes as RIM struggles to generate int
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:02am EST
Apple this week patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. Both Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, were updated with fixes. The two operating systems were last updated in mid-October 2011.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:00am EST
In an effort to improve security in its Android Market, Google has been using a service providing automated scanning of applications submitted to the mobile application store, Google revealed on Thursday afternoon. Code-named Bouncer, the service scans the market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience or requiring developers to submit to an application approval process, said Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice of engineering for Android, in a blog post:
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:41pm EST
AMD has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day. AMD's new server chips code-named Abu Dhabi and due out in 2013 will have 16 cores, the same number as the existing Opteron 6200 chips code-named Interlagos that shipped last year. Servers are being redesigned to match specialty workloads and adding more cores to the Abu Dhabi chip wasn't the way to boost performance, said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Global Business Units at AMD, during a speech.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:53pm EST
Companies and home users whose computers or routers are infected by the DNSChanger Trojan risk being unable to access the Web come March 8, 2012, when the FBI unplugs the legitimate DNS servers it set up to replace the rogue DNS servers that were forwardi
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:03pm EST
AMD will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel. The company will blur the lines between CPUs and graphics processors in future chip design cycles, with both units sharing a memory pool and running common software applications, said AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Thursday during a financial analyst conference speech that was webcast.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:24pm EST
In October 2011, Internet infrastructure firm VeriSign released its usual quarterly report. Buried in the 50-page filing to the SEC was the revelation that the company had been breached multiple times the previous year.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:08pm EST
Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:23pm EST
Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings. The software unit will be led by John Swainson, who will assume the title of President of Software Group. He was previously senior advisor at Silver Lake, an equity firm, but also served as CEO and CA from 2005 through 2009.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:38am EST
Just when you thought Internet Explorer was on a years-long losing streak, about to drop below 50 percent of all browsing activity worldwide, the January figures from Net Applications showed a substantial, remarkable 1.19 percent jump in IE use in January.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:06am EST
With the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) now official, industry and financial analysts say that a huge influx of cash could enable the social networking company to topple Google from its dominant position in the online world.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:52am EST
SAP's $3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday. On Wednesday SAP announced for the third time it was extending its offer for SuccessFactors, which was first made in December, while awaiting approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS).
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:15am EST
That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise. Finance and IT professionals, facing the need for greater computing power for everything from operational management to hedge accounting are understandably tempted by SaaS, given the cloud's relatively low startup costs and the fact they may lack the skills needed to build their own analytic solutions.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:44am EST
Hewlett-Packard has let slip some details on its website about its upcoming Proliant Gen8 servers ahead of their official launch. The pages list basic details of single- and dual-socket BL, ML and DL Gen8 servers, which will be based on Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 processors.[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:18am EST
A group of HTC Android phones is susceptible to an exploit that can steal Wi-Fi credentials and passwords and send them to attackers.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:05am EST
Google is directing users to localized country domains on Blogger to provide it flexibility to comply with content removal rules in various countries. The move suggests that Internet companies are coming to terms with the need to follow local rules, as they try to gain users in countries where there are concerns about pornography, and certain political and religious content.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:54am EST
In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a wider range of form factors, the company announced Thursday. "Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 is the foundational element in our cloud strategy," said Todd Barr, Alfresco chief marketing officer. The company is preparing to offer the CMS (content management software) as SaaS (software as a service) by April or May this year.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:44am EST
Google Docs users can now get offline access to documents on their Android-based smartphones and tablets, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday. The upgraded app makes offline access possible for Google documents, presentations, spreadsheets, uploaded images, and file formats such as pdf, doc, xls, and ppt, according to Google.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:56pm EST
Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:58pm EST
Facebook filed papers Wednesday to become a public company, revealing financial information that attests to the social network's phenomenal growth. The IPO is the most anticipated public offering in a decade, with the company looking to bring in $5 billion in investment.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:47pm EST
Symantec has backtracked from assertions last week that 13 Android apps distributed by Google's Android Market were malicious, and now says that the code in question comes from an aggressive ad network that provides revenue to the smartphone programs.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:18pm EST
ARM will announce its first 64-bit processors later this year for servers and high-end smartphones, and is also taking steps to build up software support for the processor designs, said CEO Warren East earlier this week. The first 64-bit processors will be licensed to device makers and based on the ARMv8 architecture, which was announced in October. The 64-bit processors will be in volume production by 2014, after which it will reach devices, East said.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:22pm EST
They are well organized. They pay close attention to product quality, working hard to make it effective and scalable. They are all about customer service, providing after-sales support. They even solicit the help of their customers in product development. All admirable qualities. But all in the service of theft.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:14pm EST
A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. A keyboard stops working, or Outlook crashes repeatedly, and a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex issues can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without needing an outside vendor.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:32am EST
One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced. Kroah-Hartman previously worked at Suse Linux, also as a fellow.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:20am EST
VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool. With the new 3.0 version of Operations Manager, the software can now manage Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware's vSphere individually or in multi-hypervisor deployments, the company says. This version adds XenServer to its capabilities.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:45am EST
A botnet that was crippled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September is spamming once again and experts have no recourse to stop it. The Kelihos botnet only infected 45,000 or so computers but managed to send out nearly 4 billion spam messages a day, promoting, among other things, pornography, illegal pharmaceuticals, and stock scams.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:08am EST
Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else. Nimbus's new E-Class (enterprise-class) Memory System is a fully redundant solid-state storage system that scales from 10TB to 440TB in capacity in a single file system and a single rack and costs about $10 per gigabyte.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:57am EST
Cisco Systems developed its latest enterprise access point with corporate bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies in mind, aiming to give tablets and smartphones as well as traditional workplace devices strong and consistent performance.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:45am EST
Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand. Shortage of drives by the end of this year is likely to be about 150 million units, it said.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:27am EST
Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately. IDG News Service first reported the user discontent last week.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:22am EST
Semiconductor industry revenue will grow at a slow pace this year due to struggling economies worldwide, lower spending and sluggish demand for products, research firm IHS iSuppli said in a study released on Tuesday. Revenue for the semiconductor industry this year is expected to be $323 billion, growing by just 3.3 percent compared to last year's revenue, IHS iSuppli said.
