Silicon Valley's road to recovery
Things are bubbling in Silicon Valley, according to the latest quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index [PDF], released Thurs
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Microsoft looks to lure iPhone app developers to Windows Phone
While Apple has vaunted to a leadership position in mobile computing with its iPhone smartphone, Microsoft is looking to chip away at Apple's dominance, releasing on Friday an API tool intended to help developers migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone.
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Oracle, Google move to streamline Java lawsuit
Google and Oracle each submitted proposals on Friday to reduce the number of claims in their Java patent infringement lawsuit, which could help bring the case to a speedier conclusion. Oracle sued Google in August, claiming its Android mobile operating system infringes on seven of Oracle's Java patents. Google has denied all wrongdoing.
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Privacy-conscious Apple suffering leaks in China
Outsourcing to countries like China may cut a company's employment and manufacturing costs, but those savings come at a price, a lesson that Apple continues to learn the hard way through its controversial relationship with Foxconn.
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Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage
Amazon has posted an essay-length explanation of the cloud outage that took offline some of the Web's most popular services last week. In summary, it appears that human error during an system upgrade meant a redundant backup network for the EBS (Elastic Block Service) accidentally took up the entire network traffic in the U.S. East Region, overloading it, and jamming up the system.
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Teradata, Information Builders roll out BI appliance
Teradata and Information Builders have developed a data warehousing package that bundles the latter's WebFOCUS BI (business intelligence) software with a Teradata analytic appliance, the companies announced Friday. The product will allow customers to get a data warehousing platform up and running more quickly, the companies said.
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Microsoft admits to more Windows Phone update problems
Yet another problem has cropped up preventing some Windows Phone 7 users from getting two software updates, adding a new chapter to the botched-update saga that started in February.
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AMD sticking to x86 for tablets
Advanced Micro Devices shot down rumors that it is pursuing an ARM license, saying it will stick to developing chips for tablets around the x86 architecture. AMD is not seeking an ARM license as it has a strong CPU and graphics technology around which to build chips for tablets, said John Taylor, director of client product and software marketing at AMD. AMD currently makes computer chips based on the x86 architecture, and next year plans to release its first dedicated tablet chips based on the x86 instruction set.
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Avast finds PDF exploit invisible to antivirus programs
Criminals have started using an obscure image filter to make malicious PDF files all but invisible to many antivirus programs, Czech security firm Avast Software said. The trick involves hiding a common Adobe Reader exploit inside a PDF (Portable Document Format) file by encoding it with the JBIG2Decode filter, normally used to minimize file sizes when embedding monochrome TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) images inside PDFs.
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Yahoo Hadoop spin-off could propel software's growth
Yahoo's reported plan to spin off its Hadoop engineering unit into a separate company, should it happen, could spur more competition in the already-growing field of providing support for this data processing framework, observers said.
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Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking
Representatives from both Apple and Google will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy and smartphones, two U.S. senators confirmed on Thursday.
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Microsoft's quarter rescued by Microsoft Office
Microsoft enjoyed strong income and revenue growth for its third fiscal quarter despite sluggish PC sales, with Xbox and Office doing well, the company reported Thursday. For the quarter that ended March 31, Microsoft reported net income of $5.23 billion, up 31 percent from the same period last year. Third-quarter revenue was $16.43 billion, a jump of 13 percent. Diluted earnings came in at $0.61 per share, up 36 percent.
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