EU Parliament approves once-secret ACTA copyright treaty
After 11 rounds of international negotiations, the final text of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has overcome its biggest hurdle yet when it was welcomed as a step in the right direction by the European Parliament, which voted 331-294, with 11 members abstaining, to approve the measure.
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Tim Berners-Lee criticizes Web leaders
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with creating the Web, warns that social-networking sites, efforts to prioritize Web traffic, and closed systems such as iTunes threaten the Web's capability to promote free speech and open doors to new scientific discoveries, in an essay published in Scientific American.
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Opera rolls out Opera 11 beta with 'tab stacks,' extensions
Opera teased a major new version of its desktop browser last month, and now the first Opera 11 beta is here to offer an early taste of its -- count 'em -- 11 new features.
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Random Hacks of Kindness weekend set for developers
Developers in cities worldwide will gather to build software for disaster risk management and response as part of another Random Hacks of Kindness event on December 4-5, Google said. Google, Microsoft, The World Bank, and Yahoo are inviting developers to participate in the event that weekend. Random Hacks of Kindness, or RHoK, unites software engineers and disaster risk management experts to identify critical global challenges and develop software in response, the RHoK website states.
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Update: Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in SAP lawsuit
A jury has awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP, a blow to the German applications vendor, which had argued it should pay just $40 million for the software stolen by its TomorrowNow subsidiary.
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Acer unveils tablets to run Windows, Android
Acer executives on Tuesday previewed tablet computers planned for release next year, including three Android-based devices and one that runs Windows. They also detailed plans to introduce a portable computer that has the form factor of a laptop but replaces the keyboard with a second touchscreen, allowing users to use a virtual keyboard or some other form of touch-based interface.
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Coming soon: 'Clash of the Banking Trojans'
Zeus is getting some competition in the pantheon of malicious software designed to steal bank account information.
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Phone makers, software vendors push Web-based apps
Companies including Mozilla, Opera Software, Palm, and Sony Ericsson are trying to accelerate the use of Web standards when developing applications for smartphones.
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Is SAP afraid of a Stuxnet-style attack?
Enterprise software provider SAP is stepping up its security stance as its once-isolated systems become increasingly connected to the Internet, posing new risks as hackers diversify their targets.
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Attachmate to feast on Novell technologies
With its pending $2.2 billion purchase of Novell, Attachmate is acquiring a rich portfolio of technologies. The next step will be actually putting these riches to work, analysts said Monday.
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Could Windows Phone 7 succeed with IT?
Although Microsoft with its Windows Phone 7 platform has tried to satisfy the consumer market with capabilities for music, video, and games, the smartphone's tie-in to Microsoft's back-end server applications could give it an edge in Microsoft-dominated IT shops. Developers can build applications to access systems such as the SharePoint collaboration platform, BizTalk Server business process management system, and the SQL Server database, said Scott Kerfoot, Microsoft's senior director of technology evangelism.
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Alternatives to Apple App Store for enterprises
Last year, Curtis Cuozzo, manager of sales force automation at Talecris Biotherapeutics, sent out CDs with an internal enterprise iPhone app to a trial group of 60 sales folks. They were asked to follow a 15-step process that included loading the CD on their laptops, downloading the app to iTunes, and syncing with their iPhones. Cuozzo made lots of follow-up phone calls to see how they did. "We had about a 50 percent success rate deploying it through iTunes," he says. "It was a very cumbersome process."
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Novell acquisition doesn't signal victory for Microsoft over Linux
Observers around the blogosphere have been fixated not so much on the impact of Attachmate's $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell as they are on M
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