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RSA: Microsoft Tries To Turn Shady Internet Trustworthy
The company is releasing software to improve the process of online identification and authentication.
DoD Loosens Social Media Restrictions
Soldiers and other Department of Defense employees may now access and use sites such as Facebook and Flickr via unclassified Defense networks.
Why Multitenancy Matters In The Cloud
There's a debate in the software industry over whether multitenancy is a prerequisite for cloud computing. Those considering using cloud apps might question if they should care about this debate. But they should care, and here's why: multitenancy is the most direct path to spending less and getting more from a cloud application.
Feds Plot Data Center Consolidation
A survey will analyze the government's 1,100-plus data centers, counting racks, servers, routers, and switches.
Twitter Phishing Attack Hooks UK Cabinet Minister
The company is warning people not to surrender personal details to fake Twitter login pages.
Apple iPhone Users Buy More Apps
Users of competing mobile devices appear to be less keen to open their wallets.
Google Culls Gmail Labs
The company is promoting six Gmail Labs experiments and getting rid of five.
Microsoft Decapitates Waledac Botnet
A major source of spam and malware has been cut off from its controllers.
Microsoft Licenses Multimedia File System To Panasonic
Panasonic will license Microsoft's exFAT file system, which makes it easier to exchange multimedia files across devices.
Senate Considers P2P Security Bill
Legislation would require software developers to tell users when files are being shared via peer-to-peer networks.
What's The Best Cloud Mix?
At TechWeb's Cloud Connect conference in March, I'll be moderating a panel on the value of public, private and hybrid cloud. We'll assess where the value is today and where things are headed. Here's my take: Utilizing the right cloud combination to maximize the resources in your organization for different types of workloads, functions, applications,
Google Faces European Antitrust Scrutiny
The European Commission says it is looking into three separate complaints about Google.
Google Execs Convicted In Italy
The ruling in a YouTube privacy case, if not overturned on appeal, could put an end to online user-generated content in parts of the world.
Microsoft Announces Government Cloud
The Business Productivity Online Suite Federal is hosted on a government-dedicated infrastructure in secured facilities within Microsoft's own data centers.
Alaska Airlines To Offer Aircell Wi-Fi
The airline has dropped plans to install Row 44's satellite wireless Internet on its planes and will instead go with the cellular-based Gogo system.
Global CIO: There's No Money Left
That sucking sound you hear is the sound of yearly software maintenance fees.
Intel Reveals It's Been Hacked
The company's annual report says that some of the attacks have been successful.
Piper Jaffray Sees Gold Rush In Cloud Software
Investment advisor Piper Jaffray interviewed 100 CIOs and IT managers, then wrote up its conclusions in a 320-page report, neatly summarized by its title: "The Future Is In the Cloud." Spending on software as a service and cloud computing will grow from 5.7% today to 13.5% of all software spending in five years, it predicts.
Xerox Files Patent Suit Against Google, Yahoo
The company claims that its automatic query and information integration patents are being violated.
SanDisk Ships 64 GB SD Memory Card
The Ultra SDXC has a read speed of 15 MB per second and is built for capturing and storing 1080p HD video files.
Four New Cloud Computing Favorites
Four startups have emerged as finalists in Cloud Connect's Launch Pad contest, in which the public voted for their favorite new or in-development cloud application or service. These finalists provide a good indication of what's next in the cloud.
Global CIO: Oracle Needs More Than Ellison's Talk To Beat IBM's Systems
IBM's counterattacking on multiple fronts, emphasizing 50 years in optimized systems and questioning Oracle's abilities.
Apple Adult Content Purge Encouraged By Developers
The company is removing "overtly sexual content" from its iTunes App Store in response to complaints from users and developers.
Mozilla Posts Firefox Fixes But Possible Bug Remains
A security researcher claims to have released exploit code that affects Firefox 3.6.
Exclusive Research: Customers Skeptical Of Oracle-Sun Benefits
Do IT teams really want the integrated software-hardware stack that Oracle promises?
Google Buys reMail
Yet another company started by a former Google employee has been acquired by Google.
Global Botnet Attack Hits Enterprise, Government PCs
Operating undetected for about a year, the criminals behind the cyberattack had control of more than 74,000 computers.
Piper Jaffray: 3 Firms To Grow Big In The Cloud
It's almost a manifesto. "Everything will move to the cloud," predicts Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Mark Murphy and researcher Brian Schwartz. And as it does, three medium-sized companies will become star cloud suppliers. Do you think you know who they are? I, for one, didn't get them right.
AMD Updates Catalyst Graphics Driver
The company will release monthly upgrades to improve the game-running performance of its Radeon graphics processor.
Global CIO: Open Letters To Ellison, Hurd, Chambers, & Plattner
In the past year we've made candid suggestions to each of those executives via open letters -- were our ideas on target?
HHS To Manage Stimulus Spending From The Cloud
Acumen Solutions will build a Salesforce.com app for the Department of Health and Human Services to manage health IT relationships and projects.
Why Cloud Computing Won't Kill IT Jobs
At a recent IT End User Group focused on cloud computing, I detected turbulence. Roughly three quarters of the networking professionals and systems administrators I spoke with are afraid of losing their jobs once cloud computing evolves within their organizations.
Toshiba Intros Mobile HDD For Enterprise
The hard disk drive self-encrypts data, easing the path to compliance with regulatory mandates, the company says.
Global CIO: Hewlett-Packard's Megadeal With Shell Raises Strategic Profile
Will this large, complex, and deeply strategic energy deal help HP shake the tired tag of world's biggest PC maker?
Cloud-Based EMR Vendor Expects Flood Of New Hires
Looking to get into health IT, but don't have a background in healthcare? Practice Fusion might be the place for you.
Q&A: GSA's CIO Coleman Talks IT Modernization
The CIO of the U.S. General Services Administration discusses cloud computing, plans for funding innovation with a flat IT budget, and the potential for equipping federal employees with new consumer technologies.
Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Revealed
Cross-Site Scripting tops the list, which is designed to help businesses build security into the software procurement process.
Intel, Nokia Partner On Mobile OS
The open source MeeGo platform is a combine of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Linux Maemo.
What's the Deal With Private Clouds?
Many organizations like the idea of cloud computing, but they don't like the idea of handing over their processes and data to a third party. Thus, the private cloud was born. It's providing a nice evolution for cloud computing, and is becoming a very effective architectural pattern.
Google Grant Brings Free Wi-Fi To The Dalles
Google will be providing a $100,000 grant to The Dalles, Oregon, to build and operate a Wi-Fi cloud that covers the city's business district.
Seattle Wants Google Fiber
The City of Seattle, Microsoft's home turf, says it will push to become one of the first locales in the country to tap ultra-fast Internet service.
Government Plans Mobile Apps Store
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra outlines plans to offer mobile applications from an iPhone-like 'store' that will give the public access to new capabilities developed by both the government and third-party developers.
California Seeks Input On IT Strategy
The state's CTO has created a crowd-sourcing site and invited the public to weigh in on how it can improve in areas ranging from online services to legacy systems.
SAP's Schwarz Resigns; Analysts Question Growth Plans
Executive board member John Schwarz is the latest to head for the door as observers of the software company weigh acquisitions vs. innovation.
Space Station Gets A Room With a View
ISS crew installs new Tranquility module, which was delivered Thursday by space shuttle Endeavour.
Tableau Aims To Socialcast Data Visualization
Collaborators may illustrate and share data via social networking tools, by posting data to the software company's Web site.
Sony To Offer Blu-ray 3D
A firmware update for several of Sony's Blu-ray players and home theater systems will be released this summer, in time for pairing with the company's 3-D televisions.
NASA Looks Into The Eyes Of The Sun
Space agency launches orbiting observatory that will capture IMAX-quality images of Earth's star.
IBM Puts Enterprise Social Software On iPhone
The company sees growing corporate interest in Apple products.
Can Microsoft Catch Up by Giving Away Azure?
Microsoft Azure finally went into production amidst much fanfare. The long-awaited Azure platform is Microsoft's big bet in the cloud computing space, but can they catch up to AWS, Salesforce.com, Google, and other existing cloud players?
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