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Microsoft To Release Emergency Patch For Windows
The "out of band" emergency update addresses a Windows vulnerability that is being exploited by attackers using a "highly virulent strain" of malware.
SEC Charges Wyly Brothers With Illegal Stock Trading
Sam and Charles Wyly, longtime computer industry figures who sold Sterling Software to Computer Associates for $4 billion in 2000, are charged with using secret overseas accounts to generate more than $550 million in illegal stock trades.
Snort Creator Slams Open Source IDS Suricata
Martin Roesch expressed disappointment with the Open Information Security Foundation's efforts, and touted Razorback, Sourcefire's open source analysis and detection engine, as truly innovative.
Intel, AMD Gain In Graphics Market, Nvidia Declines
Nvidia lost market share in every segment except notebook integrated graphics, while AMD had the biggest gains in both discrete and integrated desktop chips according to Jon Peddie Research.
Barnes & Noble Pushes Nook, Expands Store Presence
Nook-dedicated "boutiques" with staffed demonstration tables featuring demo models, video displays and accessories will occupy a prominent space in B&N stores starting this fall.
Web Apps For Sale Without Censorship
OpenAppMkt.com offers a place to distribute and sell Web apps without an Apple-style approval process.
Samsung's Record Profits Driven By Chips, LCD
Mobile phone sales were up 22% in the second quarter, but average unit price declined as did operating profit from Samsung's telecommunications unit.
Ballmer Guarded On Windows Phone 7 Prospects
Microsoft CEO says the company is not going to restore its reputation in the phone market overnight.
RIM BlackPad Tablet Launching In November
Sources say that Research In Motion is preparing to launch its iPad competitor, the BlackPad, in November.
FAA NextGen Criticized For Poor Performance Tracking
A General Accountability Office report has found the FAA project to overhaul the U.S. air-traffic control system lacks performance metrics and outcome-based goals.
Nokia, Samsung, LG Lead Mobile Phone Growth
Mobile phone sales increased almost 15% in the second quarter, according to IDC, with Latin America and Asia Pacific projected to drive smartphone growth.
4G To Drive Wireless Infrastructure Spending Rebound
Carriers deploying LTE 4G networks is expected to spur global capital spending on wireless infrastructure in 2011 after two years of declines, according to iSuppli.
Email Beats Social Media For Grabbing Consumers' Attention
Most consumers prefer to receive email notifications of ads and special deals, despite the current emphasis on social media marketing campaigns, according to an Econsultancy study.
Symantec Revenue Flat, McAfee Profits Up 4%
TenCube, developer of the WaveSecure mobile security service platform, will be acquired by McAfee, the company announced, to broaden its security capabilities.
HHS Allocates $51 Million For Health Insurance Exchanges
Up to $1 million in grants per state will be available from the Department of Health and Human Services to help establish health insurance exchanges.
Global CIO: The CEO Of The Year Is SAP's Bill McDermott
With co-CEO Jim Snabe, McDermott's set a vibrant new strategy, restored growth and profitability, and exorcised some wicked demons and ghosts.
IBM Remains On U.S. Antitrust Watch
DOJ investigation into Big Blue 's mainframe licensing policies ongoing even as European authorities ramp up their own probe.
Google Cleared Of UK Street View Privacy Breach
"Meaningful personal details" weren't disclosed when Google's cars collected publicly broadcast Wi-Fi network names and MAC addresses, finds British government authorities.
India Handset Sales To Rise 18.5%
Gartner finds the Indian mobile phone industry dominated by low-cost devices and inexpensive prepaid voice and SMS plans.
FCC Approves First 4G LTE Phone
The Federal Communications Commission has recently approved some of the first devices to use Long Term Evolution 4G technology, including a phone and a laptop dongle.
Apple Developing Social Fashion Shopping Technology
Shoppers with iOS devices may soon have access to an Apple Virtual Closet that will facilitate buying, sharing, and washing clothes.
Sprint Updating EVO 4G To Android 2.2
Sprint on Thursday announced that it will be the first wireless carrier in the U.S. to distribute Android 2.2 Froyo to the HTC EVO 4G starting on August 3.
Army Plans Private Cloud
APC2, the Army Private Cloud, will be a cornerstone of a broader data center consolidation initiative that aims to reduce the number of Army data centers from 200 to less than 20.
Amazon CTO Counters Eli Lilly Rumors Via Twitter
Werner Vogels used the micro blogging service to respond to reports that Eli Lilly, a leading EC2 customer, was "dumping" Amazon Web Services.
HTC Droid Incredible Almost Identical To Nexus One
A teardown analysis of the handset found it so similar to the Google model, also built by HTC, that the Droid could be called "Nexus Two.'
Congress Moves To Legalize Online Gambling
The legislation would replace the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which has proven to be unenforceable.
Best Buy To Offer Clearwire WiMax Service
The 4G wireless broadband service is currently available in 36 cities and is expected to add 24 more by the end of the year.
Oracle Sued By Justice Department For Fraud
The suit contends Oracle misrepresented its commercial sales practices to give government customers deals inferior to those offered to commercial customers.
YouTube Promises 15 Minutes Of Fame
To mark an increase in allowable running time for non-partner videos, YouTube says it will promote a handful of video makers.
Microsoft Plans Intel 'Oak Trail'-Based Tablets
CEO Steve Ballmer tells financial analysts that catching Apple in the slate PC market is "job one" for the company.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Improves Speech Recognition
Nuance Communications claims version 11 reduces set-up time required to 'train' the software to your spoken voice and boosts accuracy up to 15%.
GAO Launches Mobile Website
Responding to the growing trend of accessing content on mobile devices, the Government Accountability Office reports are now accessible to BlackBerry, iPhone, Android and other mobile device users.
Amazon Launches $139 Wi-Fi Kindle
The Wi-Fi only electronic reader and a $189 third generation model of the original Kindle with Wi-Fi and 3G are Amazon's latest bid to spur digital book sales.
NOAA Supercomputer Tapped For Climate Change Research
Housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the 14-cabinet, 260-teraflop system is the most powerful supercomputer operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
Black Hat: Android, iPhone App Data Risks Overlooked
A survey of mobile app security for iPhone and Android reveals that information disclosure isn't always obvious.
Juniper Networks To Acquire SMobile For $70 Million
Adding SMobile's Junos Pulse software platform for smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks, helps position Juniper to better compete in the mobile client security market.
Health IT Alone Won't Improve Primary Care
Federal report raises numerous questions about whether electronic health records and other technologies can advance the patient centered medical home model.
Radio Shack Revenues Top $1 Billion
An emphasis on mobile products, including a successful wireless kiosk program in Target stores, helped drive $53 million in profits for the second quarter.
BlackBerry Springs Leaks, App World 2.0 Goes Beta
It's been hard to escape the cavalcade of leaked information about unannounced BlackBerry devices of late. Find out what the latest scuttlebutt is here.
Mobile Networks Falter Under Video Demand
Peak traffic congestion at night causes most stalling, according to Bytemobile, and coming network upgrades likely won't help.
Google Ramping Games Business
Discussions with online gaming companies and a job listing for a games project manager suggest Google is prepping its Facebook-competing social network.
Smarsh Launches Employee Text Message Archiving
Expanding on its social media, instant message and email archiving offerings, Smarsh has launched a mobile message archiving module for BlackBerry, Android and Windows with iPhone support due later this year.
Apple Probes iPhone iOS 4 Complaints
Still stinging from "antennagate," the company is now looking into reports its new mobile operating system is buggy.
Oracle Patches Bug Crashing Eclipse
Changing the company field name from Sun to Oracle in latest Java update caused the Eclipse software development environment to fail.
Defense Agency Expands Cloud Computing
Platform-as-a-service, Microsoft Office, and SharePoint may be delivered to military agencies from the Defense Information Systems Agency's private cloud.
Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested
Developer of the malware, used to create almost 10,000 unique pieces of malicious software, was busted in Slovenia.
LG Android Tablet Release Set For Fourth Quarter
LG on Thursday confirmed that it is working on a tablet-style device that will run Google's Android platform. It also showed off the Optimus Z smartphone.
Motorola Mobile Devices Generate $87 Million Profit
Focus remains on the recovery of Motorola's mobile phone operations as the company preps for a split early next year.
Oracle Out, Google In At Berkeley Lab
4,000 employees at DOE research facility will have new calendaring system when they show up for work Monday.
Best Buy Jumps Into 'Antennagate' With Free Shields
Best Buy on Wednesday announced that it will offer free invisible shields for those who purchased an iPhone 4 at a Best Buy location.
Black Hat Warning: ATMs At Risk
Barnaby Jack of IOActive demonstrated attacks that would allow a criminal to compromise ATMs.
Guerra On Healthcare: Application Rip And Replace Realities
Most healthcare organizations must leverage past investments and don't have the luxury to rip and replace in pursuit of "perfect world" IT scenarios.
EnterpriseDB Upgrades Postgres Plus Advanced Server
The 8.4 version includes protection against SQL injection attacks and compatibility features to make it easier to migrate Oracle applications.
Black Hat: U.S. Infrastructure Vulnerable To Cyber Attack
This broad variety of platforms and applications provides many holes for hackers to get through, says the US-CERT Director.
Google Fights Android Piracy
A new licensing service for Android apps aims to limit misuse.
Global CIO: IBM Attacked By EU Anti-Capitalists & IT Washouts
Two tiny makers of mainframe knockoffs are joining forces with the always-eager EU to try to browbeat IBM into unearned submission.
Panasonic Announces 3D Camera Lens, Camcorder
The interchangeable lens is actually two small lenses that transmit slightly different viewpoints of a subject to the camera's image sensor.
Facebook Launches Q&A Service
Facebook Questions, launched in a limited beta, allows crowdsourcing of answers to questions on any topic from the 500 million users of the social network.
Microsoft Launches Office For Mac 2011 Video
The marketing video highlights user interface enhancements, including a new ribbon that presents users with the commonly used controls, the template gallery and email improvements.
RIM's 'BlackPad.com' Signals Attack Of The 'Pads'
Research In Motion recently purchased a new domain name: BlackPad.com. Can RIM's BlackPad and HP's PalmPad take on Apple's iPad?
Google Pitches Wave For Health Records
Wave's auditable multi-user collaboration turns out to be well-suited for health records, as long as patients don't mind a bit less privacy.
CoreTrace Bouncer Improves Application Whitelisting
The Bouncer client enforces a whitelist of approved applications at the kernel level and provides list administration through a central management application.
Black Hat: 'App Genome' Exposes Smartphone Risks
Researchers from Lookout will present their findings thus far in study of freebie Android, iPhone apps.
White House To Review High-Risk IT Projects
As part of its effort to improve IT project management across federal agencies, OMB will require that designated projects devise improvement plans and get executive backing.
EVO Drives Sprint Nextel Subscriber Growth
Despite reporting a $720 million quarterly loss, the wireless provider's announcement of a net customer gain after three years of subscriber attrition drove its stock up 4%.
Amazon Sells Out Of Kindles
The growth rate of Kindle sales has tripled since Amazon lowered the price to $189; customers can still order the electronic reader, but estimated delivery dates are not available.
Google, Facebook, Apple Face Privacy Questions From Senators
Lawmakers are concerned about the tech companies' practice of collecting information about people's online activity and sharing it with third parties.
Apple Safari 5.01 Fixes Security, Adds Extensions
An update to Apple's Safari Web addresses longstanding complaints about the difficulty of Safari plugin development.
iPad Bricked By Sunlight, Lawsuit Claims
Court documents say Apple's new tablet computer is prone to overheating in hot weather.
Intel Demos 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Laser Link
Optical fibers can transmit data inside computers faster and over greater distances than current copper wire technology.
IBM, UPMC Partner On Hospital 'SmartRoom'
SmartRoom systems, now deployed at two University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals, identifies clinicians, providing real-time access to patient information and workflow tools based on role and location of caregiver.
Tech Data Signs On As Greenway EHR Distributor
Greenway PrimeSuite electronic health record system centralizes patient records, clinical tools, billing, and other medical administrative functions in a single database.
Security Pros See Cloud As Top Risk
Fewer than 2% have seen serious incidents caused by employee mobile device or social network use, finds RSA survey.
Oracle Exadata V2 Customer Tells All
BNP Paribas cuts database size and maintenance time by more than half.
Adobe To Acquire Day Software For $240 Million
Day's web content management, digital asset management, and social collaboration tools will be integrated with Adobe's digital enterprise division.
LG Posts 33% Second Quarter Loss
Lackluster performance of handset division, higher R&D and marketing costs responsible for depressed financial performance, says company.
FCC Launches Consumer Help Center
Broadband speed tests, help with high cell phone bills, and complaint filing are some of the services offered.
Black Hat: Microsoft Brings Adobe Into Security Program
Adobe will soon be distributing security information through MAPP, the Microsoft Active Protections Program.
LinkedIn Valued At $2.26 Billion
Business networking site's value has more than doubled in two years.
Sina Opens Microblog Platform
Twitter-style rapid information sharing faces an uphill battle with China's government censors.
WikiLeaks Tests Feasibility Of Government Data Security
Governments will always face the twin challenges of balancing the need for secrecy with the need to collaborate, say experts.
TI Eyeing $175M Purchase Of China Chip Foundry
Texas Instruments is expected to buy a wafer plant run by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.
Red Hat Deltacloud Joins Apache Software Foundation
Deltacloud APIs work with the NASA Nebula cloud engine and converts it into an alternative open source project.
Microsoft Slams Google-Yahoo Japan Deal
Redmond says pact would reduce the number of online advertising platforms in the country to one.
Apple And Motorola Trade Barbs Over Droid X
Apple recently posted a video of the Motorola Droid X losing signal when held a certain way. Motorola retaliated with a full-page ad in the New York Times.
Gov 2.0 Summit Preview: How Open Government Spurs Innovation
On September 7 and 8 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D. C., leaders from government and the private sector will share their experiences working with open data, and brainstorm over what's next.
Dell Streak Release Date Anyone's Guess
Dell "accidentally" posted some information regarding its Streak Android device on Tuesday, sparking hopes that it would be available soon.
Global CIO: Wal-Mart Reignites RFID Hysteria
Wal-Mart's big-time RFID expansion down to individual items has the privacy kooks on red alert--any danger behind their paranoia?
BlackBerry 6, Windows Phone 7: Will You Stand In Line?
Are Research In Motion and Microsoft chasing the glory of consumer acceptance and compromising their relative success in the enterprise? That's the risk of following Apple and Google, rather than leading with strength and innovation.
Stolen Records, Data Prices Decline
Verizon's 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals some surprising shifts in cybercrime.
State CIOs Eye Consolidation, Outsourcing To Cut Costs
A yearly survey of state IT officials found that two-thirds expect their IT budgets to shrink in the next three years.
Nvidia Loses Patent Fight With Rambus
The International Trade Commission will issue a Limited Exclusion Order against Nvidia barring the company from importing products that infringe on Rambus patents.
Apple Updates Mac OS X
The update includes the fixes in the v10.6.4 update released June 15, plus a few compatibility and performance-related graphics issues specific to the latest iMacs.
Yahoo Japan Selects Google Search
Microsoft's search technology was not strong enough for its needs, according to Yahoo Japan, in announcing Google as the new search partner.
Android 2.2 Froyo Roll-Out Schedule Guessing Game Begins
Tips and reports suggest that Verizon's line-up of Droid devices may land Android 2.2 Froyo as soon as Friday, August 6.
Facebook, Twitter Influence Purchases
A Gartner study of social networks influence on purchasing decisions finds they have become important shopping tools for both retailers and consumers.
Black Hat: External Content Threatens Web Security
Companies that rely on third-party Web content place themselves at the mercy of their partners' security practices.
Apple Refreshes iMac, Mac Pro
The Magic Trackpad, a wireless navigation device, and a 27-inch LED Cinema Display were announced in addition to the Mac updates.
SAP Reports Strong Growth, Completes Sybase Deal
U.S. market leads revenue gains and growth in large deployments.
Smartphone Wi-Fi Demand Growing
Nearly half of Wi-Fi capable smartphone owners use the service daily to improve access speeds.
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