Eavesdropping Trojan hits 150,000 Symbian phones in China
More than 150,000 Symbian-based mobile phones in China have been infected with spyware called Xwodi, according to mobile security company NetQin.
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Google moves to shuffle down low-quality sites
Google has made a significant change to its search engine that will push further down in its rankings websites that pilfer content from other places on the Internet or do not offer high-quality information, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The changes to its algorithms impact 11.8 percent of all queries, a significant change considering most people barely notice incremental changes the company makes. Initially, the change only applies to Google users in the U.S. but the company said it plans to roll it out further.
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Intel plots 'client-aware' cloud services
Intel wants the cloud to be a bit smarter. The company is developing technologies that would allow applications and services delivered over the Internet to know more about the client device they are being accessed from, be it a PC, a tablet, or a smartphone, and to tailor the services accordingly.
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LTE-Advanced mobile standard gets go-ahead from industry
Major handset makers meeting on Friday in Taipei gave their nod to a final version of the world's first advanced LTE mobile data standard, which will raise transfer speeds to 1Gbps.The standard, LTE-Advanced Release 10, will be ideal for seamless downloads of audio-visual files onto handhelds.
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Amazon aims to make it easier to build complex clouds
With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together stacks of applications and resources for its cloud computing service, the company said on Friday.
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Google launches preemptive strike at Office 365
How much is good enough?
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McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux
Sun Microsystems' mishandling of Solaris on the Intel platform left an opening for Linux to become established, when the company's Solaris OS could have won out instead, Sun co-founder and former CEO Scott McNealy said when interviewed Thursday evening by former Sun President Ed Zander at a Silicon Valley business and technology forum.
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Chipmakers fight dwindling gains in efficiency
The latest generation of graphics chips have 3 billion transistors and consume about 200 watts of energy. The numbers are impressive -- until you consider that the human brain has the equivalent of a trillion transistors and consumes just 20 watts of energy, or far less than it takes to run a light bulb.
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Shoddy Web experiences driving users from the mobile Internet
Remember the dark days of dial-up Internet? Those long, painful seconds waiting for Web pages to load and for requests to process? Those random disconnections? Those exorbitant hourly fees?
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Oracle releases JDK 7 preview
Oracle made available this week a preview of the open source JDK (Java Development Kit) 7, enabling developers to kick the tires on an upcoming upgrade to the Java platform. But some observers are concerned about a "draconian" license for the kit.
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SAP wants racketeering claims thrown out
SAP wants a judge to toss out allegations by the government of Marin County, California, that it engaged, along with Deloitte Consulting, in a racketeering scheme meant to bilk the county out of more than $20 million in connection with a troubled ERP (enterprise resource planning) project.
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Microsoft: Update glitch hit 10 percent of Windows Phone 7 users
Microsoft shed a little bit of light on the problems it had sending out the first update for its Windows Phone 7 software, but it has still suspended updates to Samsung smartphones while it works out the issue. Ironically, the update was designed to improve the software update process rather than add features that people have been waiting for, like cut and paste.
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