Cellcrypt Secure VoIP Heading to BlackBerry (PC World)
PC World - Cellcrypt, a British vendor of software for encrypting cell phone calls, has set up shop in Silicon Valley and is getting a product ready for North America's beloved BlackBerry.
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Samsung, Dell Provide Data Encryption for SSDs (PC World)
PC World - Samsung Electronics on Thursday said it is boosting security on solid-state drives by bundling data encryption software with SSDs it ships.
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Rosetta Stone shares jump in public debut (AP)
AP - Shares of language-learning software company Rosetta Stone Inc. surged almost 40 percent Thursday in their public debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Microsoft Improves, Rebrands Managed Security Offering (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is updating and rebranding its cloud-based e-mail security service, formerly known as Exchange Hosted Filtering, and spending US$75 million to beef up industry support for its new suite of security software.
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Black Hat 'supertalk' Halted Due to Vendor Concerns (PC World)
PC World - The Black Hat security conference is full of drama again in Amsterdam, with the last-minute cancellation of a presentation by a group of researchers scheduled to reveal a dangerous software vulnerability.
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McAfee Demonstrates Environmental Impact of Spam (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A week ahead of Earth Day, McAfee is offering insights into spam's impact on the environment. McAfee's research reveals that spam is not only a nuisance that hinders business productivity, it also damages the environment and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
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If Spam Equals Tons of CO2 What's the Carbon Footprint of Cyber Porn? (PC World)
PC World - A McAfee study estimates 62 trillion spam e-mails equal 33 billion kilowatt hours of electricity or about as much carbon as 3.1 million cars consuming 2 billion gallons of gasoline. In January, a study by Harvard University claimed two Google searches produced the same amount of CO2 as bringing water to a boil on your stovetop.
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Zoho Apps Can Now Be Embedded as Gadgets (PC World)
PC World - Users of Zoho's Web-hosted software suite will now be able to embed and access some of those applications' data in external Web sites.
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Panasonic, NEC unveil 9 Linux phones (Reuters)
Reuters - NEC and Panasonic will unveil on Monday nine new cell phone models running the open-source LiMo operating system, wireless Linux foundation LiMo said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.
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Why the Spam Carbon Footprint Study is Wrong (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - McAfee just released the details of a new study, conducted and published by ICF International, which seeks to measure the carbon footprint of spam. But it's completely wrong.
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Mobile's Future Is in Links, Ex-Nokia CTO Says (PC World)
PC World - The standard architecture that will realize the promise of mobile phones won't be hardware or software but a cloud-based platform that lets users navigate their contacts and content related to them, according to a former Nokia executive.
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Stealthy Rootkit Slides Further Under the Radar (PC World)
PC World - Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.
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New iPhone 3.0 Beta Software Brings More Improvements (PC World)
PC World - Apple released last night a third beta build of the iPhone 3.0 software, taking developers one step closer to the final release in June. Arriving exactly two weeks after the previous build, the iPhone 3.0 third beta software build brings speed improvements and plenty of under-the-hood goodies.
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Attackers Focused on 10 of 23 Patch Tuesday Holes (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft on Tuesday issued eight security updates to fix 23 security holes in its software, 10 of which are rated critical. Attackers have already used six vulnerabilities and four have a proof of concept or attack plan published.
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Microsoft Details Dates, Versions of Office 2010 (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Along with Microsoft's announcement Tuesday about the availability of a preview version of its next-generation mail server, Exchange 2010, the company gave out a couple of details about that most widely used software of all آ– Microsoft Office.
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Next version of Microsoft Office coming in 2010 (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s next version of its Office desktop programs will reach consumers next year, though not likely in conjunction with the Windows 7 operating system.
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Spam E-mails Killing the Environment, McAfee Report Says (PC World)
PC World - If annoying users and wasting their time wasn't bad enough, spam e-mails are also responsible for clogging our atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a gas that shoulders much of the blame for global warming, according to a report commissioned by antivirus vendor McAfee.
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Stanford's Cinder OS Tightens Mobile Power Control (PC World)
PC World - Stanford University researchers are designing an operating system from the ground up to handle the power and security requirements of mobile devices.
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Google Gives Developers Preview of New Android SDK (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google has unleashed a preview version of its software development kit for Android 1.5 to give developers an early look at the new features and capabilities coming in the mobile platform's refresh. The final SDK for Android 1.5 is expected to become available to software developers around the end of this month.
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Job Ad: Microsoft Looking to Offer Windows Mobile Updates (PC World)
PC World - Just days after customers complained on a Facebook discussion about the lack of software updates to Windows Mobile phones, Microsoft published a job ad for a developer who will build an update process for the operating system.
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