Waledac botnet poised for a comeback with stolen credentials
The Waledac botnet, crippled by legal action from Microsoft and covert infiltration by security researchers just a year ago, appears poised for a big comeback.
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Mobile data traffic projected to grow 26-fold by 2015
Words like "staggering" and "huge" don't adequately describe Cisco's projected growth of mobile data traffic through 2015. The networking firm Tuesday released a forecast that shows a 26-fold increase in mobile data traffic from 2010 to 2015.
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Dell releases Ubuntu-powered cloud servers
Dell has released two servers for the U.S. market that have been customized to run Ubuntu-based cloud services, the company announced Wednesday. Dell has outfitted its PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers with Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an implementation of the Eucalyptus private cloud software that runs on the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system.
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For the fifth straight year, IT offshoring savings decline
If there's been one constant during the years that Arie Lewin has studied the corporate offshoring experience, it's this: Very few companies understand the strategic value of global sourcing. Even today, just 5 percent of companies that offshore IT services do it really well, says Levin, a professor of strategy and international business at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and director of its Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).
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Scareware impersonates legit antivirus software from AVG
In what could be an alarming preview of tomorrow's malware-spreading techniques, a new version of scareware is on the move, one that's designed to look exactly like it's a legitimate antivirus product from reputable security company AVG.
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Update: Egypt restores links to Internet
The Internet has returned to Egypt. Five days after the country took the unprecedented step of disconnecting itself from the global network, Internet users in the country began reporting connections had returned. As they were sending out the news, Egyptian websites that had been unreachable for days were again visible from outside the country.
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Chrome breaks 10 percent browser market share for the first time
January was a record-setting month for Google Chrome and Apple Safari, as both set new highs for market share.
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Google accuses Microsoft of copying search results
Officials from Microsoft and Google sparred at an event on Tuesday over Google's accusation that Microsoft copies Google search results and feeds them into its Bing search engine. The issue was first reported on Tuesday morning by the Search Engine Land technology news blog, whose editor Danny Sullivan was personally briefed by Google on the issue in recent days.
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SAP and Microsoft try to reboot Duet
SAP and Microsoft announced Tuesday what some observers see as a reboot of Duet, the strategy first formed by the companies in 2005 to tie SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Microsoft Office. Tuesday's news centered on the general availability of Duet Enterprise, software that connects Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with SAP's ERP applications. Duet Enterprise will be sold through a new joint partner program.
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Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution
Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Team at Yahoo said this week.
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Microsoft casualties rise as eBay snags big Bing exec
Steve Ballmer, captain of the S.S. Microsoft, is working hard to assure the world that all is well with his mighty vessel.
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5 tips IT should take to prepare for the big Android rush
For years, CIOs struggled with iPhones and now iPads coming into the enterprise -- but Android devices will blindside them. Even worse, the fragmented world of Android is coming quickly.
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Advanced antennas, virtual modems to make mobile networks greener
The GreenTouch Consortium demonstrated its work Tuesday into how using large-scale antenna systems and virtual modems, along with splitting mobile networks into two parts, can help reduce energy consumption of operator networks by a factor of 1,000.
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