Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey steps into product chief role
The game of musical chairs continues at Twitter, where co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams will step down as product development leader, a role that will be taken over by Jack Dorsey, another co-founder who had distanced himself from the company's daily operations.
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Sprint urges U.S. to block AT&T/T-Mobile deal
Sprint Nextel has vowed to fight AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, calling the deal a bid to create a new telecommunications duopoly. "Sprint urges the United States government to block this anti-competitive acquisition. This transaction will harm consumers and harm competition at a time when this country can least afford it," said Vonya McCann, senior vice president of government affairs, in a written statement on Monday.
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Forget Social Security numbers -- cyber criminals want your intellectual property
If you thought protecting your customer and employee data like Social Security numbers and bank information against two-bit hackers was challenging, brace yourself: A report released by McAfee and SAIC (Science Applications International C
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McAfee's website full of security holes, researcher says
The McAfee.com website is full of security mistakes that could lead to cross-site scripting and other attacks, researchers said in a post on the Full Disclosure site on Monday. The holes with the site were found by the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, and reported to McAfee on Feb. 10, YGN says, before they were publicly disclosed to the security/hacking mailing list.
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Amazon's cloud new offers dedicated hardware
AWS (Amazon Web Services) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday.
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Intel SSD line doubles capacity, drops price
Intel announced today a new line of consumer-class SSD (solid state drives) based on its smallest 25 nanometer (nm) circuitry that replace the chip-maker's long-selling and most popular SSD, the X25-M. The new 2.5-in. Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series offers models that more than triple capacity over the X25-M and reduces price by up to 30 percent, or $100, on some models. While aimed at the laptop and desktop market, the consumer SSD has also been Intel's most popular model for servers in data centers.
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ISO finalizes C++ update
The widely used C++ programming language is about to be updated, as the ISO steering committee for the language has approved the final draft specifying its next version. The ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) will review the steering committee's Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) will review and, barring any complications, publish the draft later this year. It will be known as C++ 2011.
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