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Microsoft details Windows 8 for ARM devices

Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for devices that use ARM chips, outlining in a lengthy blog post different ways in which this OS, called WOA and still in the works, will be alike and different from existing versions of (...)

10 February 2012

Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform

Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds.

10 February 2012

Amazon attacks Apple: You get 3 Kindle products for price of iPad 2

Amazon has released a new advertisement that takes a shot at the price of Apple’s iPad, emphasizing the lower cost of the Kindle e-reader and Android-based Kindle Fire tablet computer.

10 February 2012

Obama 2012 campaign playlist revealed courtesy of Spotify

Depending on your taste in music and tolerance for others’ tastes, President Barack Obama’s latest social media move – sharing his 2012 campaign playlist via streaming music website Spotify – might be a case of over-sharing: Ricky Martin, REO Speedwagon and James Taylor (...)

10 February 2012

March debut of 'iPad 3' a sure bet, says analyst

Apple will introduce a new iPad the first full week of March, and will start selling it the following week, according to reports and industry analyst expectations.

10 February 2012

Microsoft details 'Windows on ARM' program

Microsoft is fencing off a piece of Windows 8 called Windows on ARM (WOA) that is designed specifically for deployment on devices with low-power ARM processors - such as tablets and that has capabilities customized to that environment.

10 February 2012

Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical

Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.

10 February 2012

Mobile World Congress sneak peek: Quad-core smartphones, Ice Cream Sandwich & more

It might be hard to imagine there will be that much more for makers of smartphones, tablets and other wireless offerings to reveal at Mobile World Congress at the end of this month after the deluge of products that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show to kick off 2012. But Sony, HTC and (...)

10 February 2012

FBI unbolts Steve Jobs 1991 investigation file

The FBI today released a background check it did on Apple's founder Steve Jobs when he was being considered for a position on the President's Export Council under George H.W. Bush in 1991.

9 February 2012

Foxconn said to have been hacked by group critical of working conditions

Hackers claimed to have stolen internal data from Apple supplier Foxconn, and leaked the information online, in response to media reports of poor working conditions at the electronics manufacturer's factories in China.

9 February 2012

Microsoft mobile CRM clients may mean more productivity

The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says.

9 February 2012

Demand growing for application performance management tools, experts say

The growing importance of reliable applications in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for application performance management vendors, some of which have taken full advantage lately.

9 February 2012

Microsoft exec: Lync-Skype integration a 'compelling opportunity'

Microsoft is looking at creating a bridge between Lync, its enterprise IM, voice and video communications product, and Skype as part of its broader initiative to extend the Office platform, a company executive said on Wednesday.

9 February 2012

Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP

Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet (...)

9 February 2012

Pre-rendered pages highlight latest Google Chrome release

You're familiar with autocomplete. Now get ready for auto-page rendering.

9 February 2012

Cisco boosted profit, sales in Q2 while cutting costs

Cisco Systems posted year-over-year gains in revenue and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Wednesday, reporting net sales up 10.8 percent to US$11.5 billion, and said it met a key cost-cutting goal one quarter early.

9 February 2012

Four crazy tech ideas from Google's Solve for X project

Google promised radical technology proposals would be a part of its Solve for X project and its initial offerings so far haven't disappointed.

9 February 2012

iPhone, iPod touch meet NERF Lazer Tag

Hasbro, realizing that iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts might have such a hard time putting down their gadgets to actually play NERF Lazer Tag, will soon combine Apple technologies with its popular shoot-em-up game.

9 February 2012

Windows 8 strives for optimal battery life

Windows 8 is stingy doling out power to applications, particularly what Microsoft calls Metro-style applications written specifically for the operating system, all in an effort to prolong battery life.

9 February 2012

Researchers crack satellite encryption

Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications.

8 February 2012

Free Web tool consolidates data on code vulnerabilities

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, (...)

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Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed

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.

8 February 2012

U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems

In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab is building a new computing center that will one day house exascale systems.

8 February 2012

Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

8 February 2012

iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week of Feb. 7

Even as the Patriot's hopes and dreams were strangled in the Super Bowl, the iOSsphere rumors for iPad 3 mounted anew on wings like eagles.

8 February 2012

IPv6 Week: This Brazilian party is for techies only

Forget Mardi Gras. Brazil is hosting a party for techies only this week to encourage deployment of IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol.

8 February 2012

New Juniper routers converge the access net

Juniper Networks this week has unveiled access routers designed to provide an on-ramp to the service provider network from residential, business and mobile networks.

7 February 2012

Accessing the Internet by mobile device doubled in 2011, data shows

Over the past 12 months, mobile access to the Internet nearly doubled to 8.5%, not counting tablets, according to data released this week by StatCounter, a Web analytics company.

7 February 2012

Droid 4 smartphone hitting shelves Feb. 10 for $200

The fourth iteration of Motorola's signature Droid series is hitting the shelves for Verizon customers this Friday.

7 February 2012

Apple warns iOS developers: Don't monkey with App Store rankings

Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are.

7 February 2012

FTC warns background screening mobile apps may be unlawful

The Federal Trade Commission this week said it sent letters to six unidentified mobile applications makers warning them that their background screening apps may be violating federal statutes.

7 February 2012

Google Chrome headed for Ice Cream Sandwich Android devices

Google's popular Chrome browser is finally coming to Android-based phones, but only if you have the very latest version of the operating system.

7 February 2012

HP moves load testing software to the cloud

With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial investments to implement.

7 February 2012

Symantec verifies stolen source code posted by Anonymous is "legitimate"

Symantec is in an ongoing fight against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to (...)

7 February 2012

Centrex: It's alive (for now)!

Centrex is a lot like the talking plague victim from Monty Python's "Holy Grail": It's not quite dead yet.

7 February 2012

Data breach? Blame your third party's remote access systems

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 (...)

7 February 2012

Upcoming Microsoft CRM clients may mean more productivity

The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says.

7 February 2012

Macs take on the enterprise

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.

7 February 2012

AT&T users report getting throttled at 2GB despite 'unlimited' data plans

If you're an old-school iPhone user who still has one of AT&T's unlimited data plans, be prepared for a rude awakening.

7 February 2012

Armored-truck company entrusts tracking software to Windows Azure cloud

U.K.-based cash-transport firm G4S is trusting the security of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored (...)

7 February 2012

Analysts weigh in: How to prep for Apple iOS device flood in the enterprise

Businesses might long for the relatively simple policies for corporate-owned mobile devices of the BlackBerry age, but today's realities are forcing them to prepare their networks for a continued onslaught of authorized and unauthorized access from a slew of consumer devices, led by iPhones and (...)

7 February 2012

Global broadband snapshot: Hong Kong throttles the rest of the world

Anyone who thinks their Verizon fiber connection is fast ought to spend a week hanging out in East Asia.

7 February 2012

Mobile device management: Apple's extra little tricky requirement

Anyone wanting to buy mobile-device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices will find they need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software that would be used to manage Google Android devices, for (...)

7 February 2012

Microsoft to roll out wave of native mobile apps for its CRM software

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.

6 February 2012

Google piques curiosity with Solve for X website, video

Google on Monday released a website and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is "a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems."

6 February 2012

Google 'ready to lay fiber' in Kansas City

Google's grand fiber network experiment is now one step closer to becoming a reality as the company announced that it is "ready to lay fiber" in Kansas City, Kan.

6 February 2012

EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, 'Thunder' appliance

EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology.

6 February 2012

Highly anticipated net virtualization startup Nicira exits stealth mode

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.

6 February 2012

Cloudyn monitors and optimizes AWS usage

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.

6 February 2012

Wi-Fi in flight has yet to soar

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% of the flying public.

6 February 2012

How to protect online transactions

The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats.

6 February 2012

Motorola, Woot 'fess up to reselling uncleared Xoom tablets

Motorola Mobility is warning people who bought but then returned Android-based Motorola Xoom tablets between March and October last year that the devices might have been resold by bargain-of-the-day website Woot with the ex-owners' sensitive data still on (...)

3 February 2012

How NOT to get a job 101: Hack Marriott, extort execs for work

The Department of Justice today said a man who sent malicious code to Marriott International Corporation, threatening to reveal confidential information taken from the company's computers if Marriott did not offer him a job, has been sent to prison for his criminal (...)

3 February 2012

The future of hypervisors

The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses.

3 February 2012

FAQ about the VeriSign data breaches

A VeriSign filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that the company suffered more than one data breach in 2010, raising questions about how secure the company's products are and what customers should do about (...)

3 February 2012

Why the House spectrum bill should be ditched: Q&A with Reed Hundt

A question-and-answer session with former Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt.

3 February 2012

Google finally scans malware-ridden Android Market

The Bouncer service analyzes apps in Android Market for known malware, spyware, and trojans

3 February 2012

Lawsuit raises questions about email privacy at work

A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers.

3 February 2012

Vendors show voice call hand-off between LTE, 3G networks

Qualcomm this week revealed a key step in enabling voice calls over LTE handsets. Working with Ericsson, the chipmaker says it recently completed the first voice call handover between LTE and 3G networks, and will showcase the achievement later this month at Mobile World Congress in (...)

3 February 2012

VeriSign admits multiple hacks in 2010, keeps details under wraps

VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, was successfully hacked several times in 2010.

3 February 2012

Facebook ripe for ridicule as it suffers outage a day after IPO filing

Social networkers resorted to Twitter during and following a brief Facebook outage on Thursday, a day after the company filed for its initial public offering.

3 February 2012

IT salaries rise, bonuses get bigger

IT pros in Austin, Texas and Portland, Ore. saw the biggest salary gains, according to new data from Dice.com, a career site for technology and engineering professionals.

3 February 2012

Before Facebook: How other recent dot-com IPOs have fared

A look back at how the newest dot-com stocks have fared since they hit the market

3 February 2012

Obama web site crushed by Republicans' when it comes to download speeds

If the presidential election were determined by how fast the candidates' Web pages download, President Obama would lose to any of his Republican challengers, according to a review by the president of Web optimizing vendor Strangeloop.

3 February 2012

FBI busts software copyright fugitive who fled to Pakistan

The FBI today said it arrested a man on charges of illegally reproducing and distributing more than 100 copyrighted commercial software programs who had fled the country after being indicted last year.

3 February 2012

Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous

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 (...)

3 February 2012

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3 February 2012

Job Prospects Improve for Some Tech Workers

Job prospects appear to be looking up for IT professionals, as multiple surveys suggest that large companies expect to slowly add staff next year.

3 February 2012

FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation

Authorities in the U.S. and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Web sites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this (...)

3 February 2012

Google takes heat over Android tablet OS

Android device makers around the world are anticipating great things from the next version of Google's mobile software, and they need the boost. Apple has a strong head start with sales of its popular iPad, while the App Store and iTunes give it apps and content, to (...)

3 February 2012

Lenovo to show first tablets at CES

Lenovo will show its first tablets this week as it moves to make a mark in the fast-growing market led by Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

3 February 2012

Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw to resign

Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw, who founded Clearwire's predecessor company in 2003, is set to resign on Friday.

3 February 2012

State of the CIO: IT Departments Are Fueling Company Growth

CIOs are investing in projects to improve staff productivity, make business processes more efficient and promote innovation. These activities signal the retrenchment that ruled during the Great Recession is, thankfully, over.

3 February 2012

Reports: Facebook raises $500 million, faces SEC inquiry

Facebook faces an SEC inquiry focused on private investments, according to news reports.

3 February 2012

Trends reshaping networks

The demands of virtualization and network convergence are driving the emergence of a host of new network developments. Here’s what you need to know and how to plan accordingly.

3 February 2012

Android knocking on iPhone's door

While the iPhone is still the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States, Android is hot on its trail and closing in fast.

3 February 2012

Fitness Technology Goes Social

Like a lot of people, Kenny Thompson had trouble balancing a 40-plus-hour job with a fitness regimen. The 34-year-old food-market manager, a resident of Morristown, New Jersey, used to work out regularly when he was younger, but over the past couple of years he had become more inactive. (...)

3 February 2012

Tablets, 4G and auto-tech to lead next week's CES

You don't need superhuman precognition to know what will be big at next week's International Consumer Electronics Show: tablet computers. Companies have been rushing to catch Apple's iPad since it went on sale in April, and at CES 2011 tens of new tablet computers are expected to be (...)

3 February 2012

The 10 Best Hacks of 2010

2010 has been a great year for homemade hacks and mods. Not content with rooting phones, modders took to all areas of tech to fiddle, from PC casemods, to farming aids, to clothing. Below are a few of GeekTech's favorite hacks from over the last (...)

3 February 2012

Private clouds: Not for the faint of heart

If you're thinking about operating a private cloud, you'll need management software to help create a virtualized pool of compute resources, provide access to end users, and handle security, resource allocation, tracking and billing.

3 February 2012

HP takes giant first step into OpenFlow

HP this week said it is taking its first leap into OpenFlow-enabled network equipment, supporting the standard on 16 of its Ethernet switch products as it attempts to gain a foothold in a market likely to receive significant attention from (...)

2 February 2012

HTC Android phone flaw fix not coming until next week for some

Some users of HTC Android phones will have to wait until next week to get a fix for a problem that could leak credentials used to gain access to Wi-Fi networks, including corporate networks.

2 February 2012

Steve Jobs lives on in endless Apple stories, marketing schemes

Although it's been nearly four months since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died, there has been little slowdown in Steve Jobs news since then. In fact, some days there seems to be more than ever.

2 February 2012

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 2

That noise echoing through the iOSsphere is the sound of Chinese workers clamoring to be allowed to build the Next iPhone.

2 February 2012

What Facebook's IPO means for users

Facebook's decision to become a public company is seen as a bellwether for Web 2.0 stock offerings, but what will it mean for the social networking giant's 800 million users, and for the companies that build third-party apps for the (...)

2 February 2012

TD Bank gets social for better business

When TD Bank Group made a lot of acquisitions a few years ago, executives knew they needed to find a way to help employees span international borders and work together.

2 February 2012

OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release

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.

2 February 2012

4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking

On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle Coach's new Willis handbag on Coach.com or get a deal on its Penelope shoulder bag at (...)

2 February 2012

U.S. firms should disclose offshore hiring, says lawmaker

A newly filed U.S. House bill would require U.S. public companies to disclose how many employees they have in the U.S. and overseas.

2 February 2012

Smartphones in a Sub-Zero Environment: Can Your Smart Phone Stand The Cold?

Some smart phone manufacturers don't allow their devices to be used in cold weather while others guarantee smooth functioning even in -20 degrees Celsius (-3adeg Fahrenheit).

2 February 2012

Brocade hones app delivery controllers for IPv6, net management

Brocade this week released new software for its application delivery controllers that gives users greater visibility into performance, and enhances IPv6 communications.

2 February 2012

Kelihos botnet, once crippled, now gaining strength

A botnet that was crippled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September is spamming once again and experts have no recourse to stop it.

1 February 2012

Riverbed upgrades 'edge virtual server infrastructure'

Riverbed today announced the release of updates to its Steelhead network performance products as well as its Granite product line, which is based on the edge virtual server infrastructure approach that Riverbed is pushing. Whereas the former aims to boost network performance for the customers (...)

1 February 2012

Verizon spectrum deal with cable companies could get Senate hearing

Verizon's spectrum deal with several cable companies could soon come under the same government scrutiny that AT&T received during its attempted merger with T-Mobile.

1 February 2012

VMTurbo upgrade supports the three major virtualization platforms

VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.

1 February 2012

Most tweets are garbage, Twitter users say

Twitter has been celebrated for its ubiquity and impact on world events from natural disaster recovery to political uprisings. But researchers from a group of big time universities have found that useful tweets are few and far (...)

1 February 2012

9 "university researcher approved" tips for awesome Tweeting

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have issued a list of 9 tips for better tweeting based on a study of Twitter usefulness (see "Most tweets are useless, Twitter users (...)

1 February 2012

HTC Android phones can leak Wi-Fi passwords

A group of HTC Android phones is susceptible to an exploit that can steal Wi-Fi credentials and passwords and send them to attackers.

1 February 2012