Security lessons still lacking for computer science grads
This year's crop of college graduates are preparing to leave school and join the work force, and the computer science majors among them appear to have good prospects.
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LibreOffice development on track after Oracle move
The Document Foundation on Friday announced a second beta for LibreOffice 3.4, the offshoot of the OpenOffice.org codebase, one week after Oracle said it would no longer sell a commercial version of the productivity suite.
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Users rule in smartphone picks, but IT has a big hand in tablets
Mobile device management provider Good Technology's latest quarterly survey of the devices its thousands of customers manage through Good's tool shows clearly that users -- not companies -- select their own smartphones, a strong confirmation that the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend is not just a temporary trend but is becoming the norm. (Good says the majority of its customers have already adopted BYOD.)
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Samsung sues Apple, alleging patent infringements
Samsung Electronics has hit back at Apple with lawsuits in three countries alleging infringement of patents on smartphone technologies. Last week Apple sued Samsung for allegedly copying features of Apple's iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone in its Galaxy smartphone and Galaxy Tab tablet PC. On Thursday, the South Korean electronics giant sued Apple in Seoul alleging five patent infringements, in Tokyo over two alleged infringements and in Manheim, Germany, over three.
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Microsoft to relieve 'Excel hell' with Web crawlers for enterprise data
Business data is growing so fast that the task of managing it all is becoming nearly as complicated as indexing the Web, and new technologies are needed to help enterprises cope.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
It was a very green week, whether you're celebrating Earth Day or the unofficial 420 holiday. But that's not all that went down. Google poured money into pet alternative-energy projects, Apple and Samsung took their tablet battle to the courts, the FBI went all in on offshore poker sites, and Kohler toilets got an IQ upgrade. Are you smarter than your average commode? Prove it by acing our quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now get cracking -- and please don't hog the test, other people need to use it too.
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AT&T, T-Mobile move toward spectrum transfer deal
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday received a request to transfer T-Mobile's licenses to AT&T, one of the first steps the companies are making in the potentially lengthy approval process of AT&T's proposed acquisition of the smaller operator.
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Amazon EC2 outage calls 'availability zones' into question
For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won't suffer from downtime. "By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location," Amazon says in pitching its Elastic Compute Cloud service.
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Google found guilty of patent infringement for using Linux
A jury in the Eastern District of Texas told Google that it owes Bedrock Computer Technologies $5 million in damages for using versions of Linux that infringe on Bedrock's patents.
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Ruby on Rails getting HTTP streaming
With the planned 3.1 release of the popular Ruby on Rails Web development framework, developers will see support for HTTP streaming, to improve page performance. They also will find that JQuery becomes Rails's new default JavaScript library.
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Microsoft ties embedded computing to the cloud
The cloud will play a pivotal role in expanding the scope of embedded computing, according to a top official from Microsoft. "Being able to capture the intelligence from the edge of the network will make a profound change in the value it can deliver for enterprises," said Microsoft Windows Embedded General Manager Kevin Dallas.
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Popular websites crippled by hours-long Amazon cloud service outage
Amazon's popular EC2 and Relational Database Services suffered glitches earlier this morning, leaving popular websites and services such as Reddit, Foursquare, and Hootsuite crippled or outright disabled well into the early afternoon.
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Obama's Facebook town hall a sign of times to come
President Barack Obama's town hall event live on Facebook Wednesday thrust social networking into the political milieu just as the run up to the 2012 elections begin. Obama held a nearly hour-long town hall with audience members at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. late on Wednesday.
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