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Apple Releases Snow Leopard Security Patch
Mac OS X 10.6.2 addresses security and stability issues, and resolves a file deletion bug involving Guest accounts.
9 In 10 Web Apps Have Serious Flaws
The 10 most severe software vulnerabilities during the first half of 2009 affected software from Apache, Citrix, IBM, SAP, Sun, and Symantec, among other organizations.
Google To Acquire AdMob
With Android adoption about to "explode," Google is betting on mobile advertising.
Cisco Unveils Collaboration Products
The company launched telepresence, unified communications, and WebEx products and enterprise social software and hosted e-mail solutions.
Global CIO: Cloud Computing's New Name: Who Will Win $100 Million?
HP, IBM, and Oracle say "cloud computing" is a bad name, so we're asking you to come up with a replacement name. You might (hah!) win $100,000,000.
Microsoft Plans Fixes For 15 Security Flaws
November's patch day is about half the size of October's massive fix.
Broadband Goals Proposed In Minnesota
A report recommends high-speed broadband with download speeds of up to 20 Mbps by 2015, and could be a model for a nationwide broadband plan.
Microsoft Expresses Cloud Privacy Commitment, Concerns
In a policy paper, Microsoft affirms its support for privacy in the cloud and calls for regulatory clarity.
Enterprise 2.0: Google Wave, A Solution Seeking A Problem?
The difficulty people have understanding Google Wave reflects broader uncertainty about the value of Enterprise 2.0 in the workplace.
Google Releases Internal JavaScript Tools
Developers can now optimize their JavaScript code with tools used by Google's engineers.
Serious SSL Vulnerability Found
A vulnerability in the most common data security protocol on the Internet could allow secure Web sessions to be hijacked.
Wolfe's Den: HP Revs Data Center Strategy, Stabbing At Cisco
Hewlett-Packard has fired back at Cisco in the increasingly contentious race to field an overarching data-center strategy, which will enable enterprises to rein in the complexity of sprawling networks and rampant virtualization.
LTE Standard For Voice, SMS Approved
Major wireless carriers and handset makers reach agreement on the technical profile of voice and SMS services over Long-Term Evolution networks.
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano Talks With Global CIO
In a rare and exclusive interview, the man who transformed IBM speaks out on business analytics, cloud computing, and the emerging Smarter Planet.
Enterprise 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes?
Skepticism about the utility and value of Enterprise 2.0 were addressed at a conference panel session.
Cisco Profits Down, But Sees Growth Ahead
The company saw a "clear tipping point" in the previous quarter, chairman and chief executive John Chambers said.
Government Technologist: Vivek Kundra's Data Center Problem
The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Can Federal CIO Vivek Kundra put a stop to the trend?
Enterprise 2.0: Novell, SAP, ThoughtWorks Ride Google Wave
Business software vendors have begun building on the Wave platform as Google promises a Wave App Store.
Global CIO: IBM's New CIO Sheds Light On Priorities And Plans
After two months as IBM's first company-wide CIO, Pat Toole talks about battling 80/20, a massive data-center consolidation, cloud initiatives, and cutting 11,500 apps.
Nokia Siemens To Restructure, Lay Off 5,700
Parent company Nokia's sweeping reorganization plan will cut $740 million annually from the networking unit.
Enterprise 2.0: Is Enterprise Software Failing?
Software providers must look beyond lists of features and address business needs. And they must deliver on the promise of the next-generation customer experience.
Enterprise 2.0: Corporations Start Collaborating
Keynoter Tammy Erickson of nGenera warns that as organizations get more social, they'll face structural challenges.
Google Sued For Sexual, Religious Discrimination
A workplace discrimination lawsuit charges Google with violating the civil rights of a former employee.
Bank IT Worker Charged In $1.1 Million Fraud
A computer technician has been indicted for stealing the identities of 150 Bank of New York employees, as well as for grand larceny and money laundering.
Firefox, Chrome, Safari Erode Internet Explorer Usage
As Microsoft waits for Windows 7 sales to hasten the transition to Internet Explorer 8, the company's overall browser share continues to decline.
Global CIO: Juniper Attacks Cisco Head-On With Help Of IBM And Dell
Sensing Cisco is distracted with its non-networking ventures as CIOs are growing unhappy with rising network costs, Juniper is going after Cisco full-bore with key new products and partners.
Google Maps Adds More Real Estate Data
Users of Google's search engine can now find out more detailed information about real estate.
Alcatel Lucent Sales, Profits Slide
A 2Q profit of $19.7 million, however, may help the networking company break even for the year.
Juniper Makes Networking Splash At NYSE
A series of high-profile announcements at the New York Stock Exchange featured 3D routers, a new networking chipset, and a cloud computing initiative.
Enterprise 2.0: Challenging Economy Pushes Businesses Toward Better Tools
TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Nov. 2 through 5 in San Francisco, aims to connect companies with better business technology.
Amazon Introduces PayPhrase Payment Shortcut
Online merchants can use Amazon's passphrase payment scheme to ease the friction of online commerce.
Qwest Profits Dip, But Outlook Brightens
Its next-generation network backbone facilities will deliver 100 Gbps speeds and will be implemented next year.
Global CIO: Hewlett-Packard's Hurd Says Bad IT Means A Bad CEO
Hurd offers a startling observation about how the roots of bad IT almost always reside in the corner office, and he explains how HP attempts to address the needs of both the CEO and the CIO.
Aruba Takes Network Management To Cloud
The AirWave OnDemand service enables subscribers to locate users and Wi-Fi devices and diagnose network problems.
Google's 'Gov Cloud' Wins $7.2 Million Los Angeles Contract
The City of Los Angeles plans to replace its Novell GroupWise e-mail system with Google Apps, partly using anti-trust settlement money paid by Microsoft.
Google Unveils Free Navigation Service For Android 2.0 Devices
Turn-by-turn directions will soon be available to users of Android 2.0 devices, like Verizon's Droid, courtesy of Google.
Juniper, Dell Partner On Networking Gear
Dell plans to market and support Juniper's MX Series routers, EX Series Ethernet switches, and SRX Series gateways.
Ericsson Shuffles Top Management
The wireless networking equipment maker has named a new CEO and CFO.
Google CEO Imagines Era Of Mobile Supercomputers
The future, as Eric Schmidt describes it, belongs to smart phones and data centers.
Cisco To Acquire ScanSafe
The market for tech companies is heating up again, as Cisco strengthens its position in Web and mobile security.
FairPoint Files For Chapter 11
Its New England landline telephone operations, purchased from Verizon, will continue, company says.
Google Voice Liberates Voicemail
Users of Google Voice can now choose Google as a voicemail provider for existing mobile numbers, displacing mobile carrier voicemail systems in the process.
Top 10 E-mail Blunders Of 2009, So Far
Proofpoint's list of the ten biggest e-mail gaffes this year shows that organizations have yet to deal with the risks of e-mail.
Google Custom Search Engine Gets Tune-Up
Web site owners can now take advantage of custom themes and improved metadata support for their Google Custom Search Engines.
H1N1 Flu Tracked By E-Prescription Data
Public health officials in Rhode Island are electronically monitoring possible swine flu outbreaks based on drug data from pharmacies.
Verizon Racks Up Revenues, But Profits Drop
Despite intense competition from AT&T and its Apple iPhone, buying Alltell has helped Verizon Wireless keep subscriber numbers robust.
Global CIO: Hewlett-Packard CEO Hurd's Strategy: The Infrastructure Company
Promising that HP can combine massive scale and innovation, CEO Hurd says it will separate itself from IBM and others by having a complete end-to-end line of hardware, software, and services.
Trend Micro Secures Virtual, Cloud Servers
To address unique server security challenges, Trend Micro is connecting its Deep Security software to virtual machines and the cloud.
Tellabs To Acquire WiChorus For $165 Million
Mobile packet core technology from WiChorus promises to smooth the way toward Long-Term Evolution.
Mozilla Unveils Raindrop Messaging Dashboard
E-mail used to be the Internet's killer app. Mozilla's forthcoming Raindrop software anticipates a world where e-mail has been reduced to one channel among many.
Web 2.0 Summit: Surprise! It's Google's Sergey Brin
Sporting unusual footwear, Google's co-founder stopped by to chat about his company.
Web 2.0 Summit: The Browser Is What Matters
Google's Sundar Pichai provides some hints about his company's upcoming browser-based Chrome operating system.
Ericsson Profits Drop 71%
The wireless equipment maker was hit with sluggish sales and declining results from its joint venture with Sony.
Web 2.0 Summit: Intel CEO Expects PC Sales Surge
Paul Otellini sees businesses moving to replace their aging hardware and promise in moving to a more distributed approach to healthcare.
Global CIO: New Tech Firm Hiring Hundreds In U.S. To Take On The World
Two offshore-services execs and a prominent American CIO plan to open IT-services centers across the U.S. as low-risk and and price-competitive alternatives to offshore providers.
Web 2.0 Summit: Facebook Bets On Wisdom Of Friends
The informational Web is being eclipsed by the social Web, according to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
LTE For PCs Near, Handsets Lagging
The first five years of Long-Term Evolution deployment will focus on PC data cards, says a market research firm.
Web 2.0 Summit: Bing Wins Facebook, Twitter Partnerships
In a blow to Google, Microsoft has secured search deals with Facebook and Twitter.
Web 2.0 Summit: GE Introduces Handheld Ultrasound Device
CEO Jeff Immelt showed off a forthcoming medical device called Vscan that promises to shake up the world of medical imaging.
Cisco Announces Borderless Networks
The new, router-based architecture makes it possible for virtual services with video and collaboration features to be remotely deployed and managed.
Global CIO: Can Oracle's Larry Ellison Keep MySQL From EU Whiners?
Want to know the real cost of the drawn-out dithering of the EU and its fawning groupies? Sun has to lay off 3,000 employees because its acquisition by Oracle is still under review.
Web 2.0 Summit: Morgan Stanley Sees Tech Rebound
Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker lays out the evidence for an economic recovery and for the market might of all things mobile.
Gartner Predicts IT Spending Rebound In 2010
But spending won't return to 2008 levels before 2012.
Web 2.0 Summit: PayPal's Platform Plans
With talk of the death of cash, PayPal president Scott Thompson painted a rosy future for payments delivered through mobile devices.
Web 2.0 Summit: Comcast Dismisses Cord Cutters
CEO Brian Roberts sees a bright future for Comcast as a provider of on-demand content.
Web 2.0 Summit: Web Squared Emerges
Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, companies still see the Web as the platform of the future.
Google Search Appliance Gets Smart
Corporate searchers can now look forward to more relevant search results, thanks to improvements in the Google Search Appliance.
Facebook, Twitter Join Google In Net Neutrality Battle
New rules governing online communication are expected later this week and Internet companies are making sure their concerns are heard.
Motorola Launches 11n Wi-Fi Gear
The wireless enterprise offerings, an access point and integrated services controller, are aimed at remote IT departments.
NATO Turns To Telepresence For Savings And Security
The alliance is using 'life size' video conferencing for communications and collaboration, project management, and emergency situations.
Wolfe's Den Interview: HP ProCurve Chief Technology Officer Paul Congdon
The CTO of Hewlett-Packard's network equipment division talks about virtualization, managing sprawl, where cloud computing fits in, and his IEEE standards work to make Ethernet the single converged fabric in the data center.
Global CIO: In Oracle Vs. SAP, IBM Could Tip Balance
The big IT players are realigning and while Oracle's love-fest with Salesforce.com is nice, Oracle will need a whole lot more friends than that to compete against not just SAP but also IBM.
SEC Charges Billionaire, Tech Execs With Insider Trading
Executives from IBM, Intel, and McKinsey are among those charged.
Tandberg Beats 3Q Forecast On U.S. Gains
The videoconferencing firm is considering Cisco's $3 billion acquisition offer despite disfavor among large shareholders.
Google Earnings Beat Street, Bring Promise Of New Hiring
Convinced that the worst of the recession has passed, Google plans new hires and new acquisitions in the months to come.
Microsoft Recovers Most Sidekick Data
Initial reports that the data of T-Mobile Sidekick users had been lost turn out to have been overly pessimistic.
Siemens Buys Solel For $418 Million
The purchase of the solar power company will enable Siemens to provide most key components for thermal solar plants.
Avaya Offers Managed Services Co-Branding
Realtime monitoring and management of communications and IT infrastructure are being provided under the umbrella of Avaya's Managed Services.
AT&T Boosts 3G In Colorado
The wireless carrier is fighting growing complaints about its 3G data coverage by deploying 850-MHz spectrum.
Wi-Fi Spec Offers P2P Connections
Like Bluetooth, the Wi-Fi Direct standard will enable peer-to-peer device connections without the need for a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Dell: IT Can Create $200 Billion In Efficiencies
Virtualization could take a large chunk out of the $1.2 trillion spent on IT in North America each year, Michael Dell said at OracleWorld.
Cisco To Acquire Starent For $2.9 Billion
Starent Networks provides multimedia core platforms for mobile carriers shifting from 2.5G and 3G network technologies to 4G networks.
Bandwidth Boost For Libraries Gaining Support
A plan to put fiber optic technology in public libraries may be a candidate for federal stimulus funding.
Google Now Largest Source Of Internet Traffic
The Internet is consolidating, as fewer networks handle more online traffic.
Sun Unveils 2 TB Flash Storage Array
The storage device's benchmarks may make it the highest-performing solid-state drive array on the market.
Global CIO: Will U.S. Protectionism Blunt Outsourcing's Next Wave?
Several top Indian IT-services companies want to step up into the world of broad-based, run-it-all outsourcing. Will the White House penalize them in an attempt to protect "our jobs"?
FCC Begins Google Voice Inquiry
Responding to complaints from AT&T and members of Congress, the FCC on Friday asked Google to explain how it operates its Google Voice service.
Motorola Unveils Wide Area Mesh AP
The AP7181 802.11n access point is likely to be beneficial to enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
Ciena Bids $521 Million For Nortel Unit
Informal estimates have placed the value of Nortel's Optical Networking and Carrier Ethernet businesses at $800 million.
Global CIO: SAP 2.0 Promises Business Value Over Products: Can It Deliver?
If SAP can deliver on the vision of its Chief Value Officer, it will make available to CIOs best practices, benchmark metrics, and breakthrough thinking and innovation.
Sybase, Interop Prep For 4G
As 4G networks come on line, wireless carriers will face interoperability and support issues with mobile messaging.
Sprint Forms M2M Business Unit
The company sees machine-to-machine products and connected consumer devices as critical to increasing revenue from its data networks.
Obama Orders Federal IT To Get Greener
An Executive Order mandates that federal agencies implement green data center strategies, double-sided printing, and PC power management, as part of a broader sustainability push.
Emerson To Acquire Avocent For $1.2 Billion
The deal is expected to help Emerson offer total infrastructure management solutions to its data center customers.
Salesforce.com, Cisco Team Up On Cloud Offering
Customers of Salesforce.com will have access to Cisco's Unified Contact Center technologies for customer service.
Global CIO: Why Hewlett-Packard Must Articulate Its Enterprise Strategy
Mark Hurd has cranked up HP's operational excellence but HP has yet to reveal an equally compelling external strategy to the world: what is HP's core strength? What does HP do best?
Q&A: Steve Ballmer On Windows 7 Enterprise Deployment
In a one-on-one interview, Microsoft's CEO encouraged CIOs to carve out money for Windows 7, saying end users are going to demand it.
US Agreement With ICANN Leaves Much Undone
The oversight of the Internet's infrastructure will become more international under a new government agreement with ICANN. But many concerns remain unresolved.
ViaSat Buys WildBlue For $568 Million
The deal will bring satellite broadband to rural areas, significantly improving users' speeds.
Cisco Buying Tandberg, Broadening Videoconferencing Footprint
The $3 billion acquisition is a major building block in Cisco's pledge to broaden the firm's focus from routers and switches into other areas.
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