Android big winner as smartphone sales increase 50 percent
As worldwide smartphone sales grew by 50 percent during the second quarter, Google's Android was the big winner, as it became the third largest operating system and sales passed 10 million units for the first time, according Gartner.
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'Dangerous' iPhone exploit code goes public
Minutes after Apple issued a security update Wednesday, the maker of a 10-day-old jailbreak exploit released code that others could put to use hijacking iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.
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Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.
It turns out that if someone enters the email address of a Facebook user along with the wrong password, Facebook returns a special "Please re-enter your password" page, which includes the Facebook photo and full name of the person associated with the address.
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Microsoft: Record number of bug exploits expected
Microsoft warned customers this week that a record number of just-patched bugs will probably be exploited in the next 30 days.
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The short list for HP's next CEO could be long
Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth noting that Hurd's name didn't come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped for the HP job.
At the time, he was a veteran of NCR, where he had served as its CEO and president.
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iPad, laptops drive integrated chip market
Four out of five PC laptops that ship in 2014 are expected to use integrated graphics processors, according to a report released today.
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How virtualization shakes up the way servers are sold
If certain server and virtualization vendors get their way, end-user companies will be buying many fewer individual servers in a few years, and many more integrated packages of infrastructure.
Virtualization has allowed many companies to reduce the number of their physical servers, but increased demand for compute power, I/O capacity and storage, according to an April report from IDC.
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Security blunders 'dumber than dog snot' leave organizations vulnerable
Voltaire is famous for noting that the main problem with common sense is that it's not all that common. Proof of that abounds in the security industry, where people who should know better do idiotic things daily, according to Roger G. Johnston, a member of the vulnerability assessment team at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Forrester: 'You get what you pay for' with open source BI
A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities enterprises require, certain shortcomings remain.
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