Developers: Third-party tools needed for enterprise Android
Google alone will not turn Android into an enterprise-ready OS, instead it will be up to third parties to add necessary features for businesses, according to Android Developer Challenge winners Konrad Hübner and Henning Böger.
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Zeus botnet thriving despite recent arrests
The Zeus botnet remains a robust network that is difficult to destroy despite an international sting operation that saw dozens arrested this week for allegedly stealing money from online bank accounts.
Zeus is an advanced piece of malicious software that can intercept online banking details and initiate money transfers. It can infect computers that have software with coding flaws that have not been fixed.
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Apotheker at helm signals new direction for HP
The initial reactions to Hewlett-Packard's appointment of Leo Apotheker as its new CEO has been double-takes.
Late on Thursday, HP named Leo Apotheker, a former CEO of SAP, to be its new president and CEO.
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Google JPEG alternative aims to speed up the Web
In its continuing attempts to make the Web faster, Google is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65 percent of the bytes on the Web.
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Samsung drops developer support for Symbian
Samsung is dropping support for Symbian from its Mobile Innovator developer support program, it said in a letter sent out on Thursday. All Symbian developer activities at Mobile Innovator will end by Dec. 31, according to the letter.
Officially, Samsung has long maintained that it has a multiplatform strategy that includes Symbian, but the company hasn't announced a Symbian-based smartphone since February 2009.
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Microsoft gives SQL Server 2008 new SharePoint integrations
Microsoft released the second service pack for SQL Server 2008 this week, with support for up to 15,000 database partitions, updates to reporting and management tools, and integration with SharePoint 2010.
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HP names ex-SAP chief Apotheker as new CEO
Hewlett-Packard has named former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker to be its new president and chief executive, replacing Mark Hurd, who resigned abruptly last month in the midst of a scandal.
HP's announcement on Thursday came as a surprise, since the company had reportedly been focusing lately on internal candidates. Apotheker's name had not been raised by industry pundits as a likely successor.
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Lustre file system finds life post-Oracle
Despite reassurances from Oracle, advocates of yet another ex-Sun Microsystems technology are voicing concern about the future of their software. In this latest case, the technology is Lustre, a file system widely used across the supercomputing community.
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Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 will turn us into a mobile contender
Acknowledging Microsoft's current, non-contending status in the smartphone space, a Microsoft official Thursday stressed that the new Windows Phone 7 platform would get the company back into the race.
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SugarCRM offers CRM to OEMs, readies native iPhone app
SugarCRM has repackaged its open-source, browser-based CRM (customer relationship management) platform to make it easier for other vendors to put their own brand on products and services built with SugarCRM, the company announced Thursday. But it is also working on a native iPhone app that will put the brand under the noses of many more users.
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Intel will not position the Atom for server markets
Intel will not position its Atom processor for the server market, even as some vendors are building servers around collections of hundreds of low-power Atom processors, a company executive said.
A server that integrates 512 Atom processors with Ethernet switching, server management and application load-balancing was demonstrated earlier this month at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco by SeaMicro, a vendor of low-power server technology.
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In Schmidt's vision, Google will anticipate users' searches before they even ask
In the not-so-distant future, you'll be walking down the street and your phone will beep and offer you a few lunch suggestions just around the corner, or it may tell you that the museum across the street is having an exhibit of that artist you once Googled.
That's Google CEO Eric Schmidt's vision of the future.
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