Samsung Windows Phone 7 update hits new snag
After resuming the update to Samsung Windows phones on Wednesday, Microsoft is running into problems again. Users on a Microsoft help forum are reporting that when they try to install the update, which was designed to improve the update function, they get an error code.
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Apache retires Excalibur Java project
Citing inactivity on the project, the Apache Software Foundation has retired the open source Apache Excalibur project, which provided a Java Inversion of Control container and reusable components, Apache said on Friday. Excalibur featured a Java-based, lightweight, embeddable Inversion of Control container named Fortress as well as components for activities like caching and XML handling. With Inversion of Control, developers instruct a software-based container to tell components how to interact in an application.
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Germany provides a secure way to deal with spam
In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate their identity to stop address spoofing and simplify blocking. In practice, that would involve building a secure, parallel email infrastructure linking electronic authentication with real-world identities: a daunting task. Yet that's just what Germany is about to do.
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Android smartphones top iPhones, BlackBerries for first time
Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the U.S. in the latest Nielsen Co. survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone.
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Report: DOJ investigating MPEG LA's dispute with Google
A U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman would not comment Friday on reports that the agency is investigating patent management firm MPEG LA for allegedly trying to suppress an open-source video compression format supported by Google. The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that the DOJ has launched an antitrust investigation of MPEG LA over a long-standing dispute with Google and its rival VP8 video codec.
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Say good-bye to Flash, but is HTML5 winning?
Earlier this week, video-centric search and social ranking site MeFeedia released a surprising statistic: In the past 12 months, the percentage of MeFeedia-indexed videos that are compatible with
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Need for 'Big Data' analytics drives vendors' acquisitions
Acquisitions such as Teradata's planned purchase of Aster Data Systems announced Thursday are driven by the growing demand for technologies that can help enterprises mine massive volumes of unstructured data, analysts said. Teradata, which already has an 11 percent stake in Aster Data, said it would pay $263 million to buy the remaining 89 percent of the data warehousing startup. The deal is expected to close some time in the second quarter.
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Amazon hooks into VMware's management platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT staff to move virtual machines to the AWS cloud with a new plug-in for VMware's management platform, AWS said on Friday.
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Recent events at Apple suggest genuine push for Mac security
Just last week news broke that Apple was offering copies of its yet-to-be released Mac OS X 10.7, or Lion, operating system to security researchers and soliciting their feedback.
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Cisco reveals next data center steps
Cisco apparently plans to soon unveil a data center switch designed for high-frequency financial trading markets, and may also be readying a switch fabric rollout similar to Juniper's recent QFabric launch.
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Poaching of IT employees on the rise
Businesses, beware: Poachers are on the prowl, and they have their sights set on your top IT workers. According to a survey conducted by Dice.com, 54 percent of hiring managers and recruiters expect organizations to aggressively engage in poaching this year.
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Android, iOS attracted open source developers in 2010
If Black Duck Software's knowledge base of open source software projects serves as a barometer, then Google's Android software platform led the way in open source software development projects for mobile devices last year, followed by Apple's iOS platform.
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