Microsoft exploits uproar over Firefox 4's retirement to beat IE drum
A Microsoft executive late Thursday used the furor over Mozilla's decision to curtail support for Firefox 4 to plead the case for Internet Explorer (IE) in the enterprise.
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Lawmakers want to block LightSquared approval
A U.S. House of Representatives committee has stepped into the fray over startup LightSquared's planned mobile data network, and passed a bill that would block the Federal Communications Commission from spending any money granting the carrier a waiver it is seeking. The FCC waived certain rules affecting LightSquared's network plans earlier this year, allowing the company to build a hybrid satellite and LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network as long as it tested for and solved interference with GPS (Global Positioning System).
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How to get a handle on mobile device management
It was only a few years ago that mobile device management was as simple as using Research in Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server as the hub for all your devices.
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Winklevoss twins back in court against Facebook
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were back in court on Thursday, a day after their lawyers had submitted to a court in California that they would not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court their $65 million settlement with Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Four companies rethink databases for the cloud
Several companies are developing new database technologies to solve what they see as the shortcomings of traditional, relational database management systems in a cloud environment. Four of them described the approaches they're taking during a panel at the GigaOm Structure conference on Thursday. The basic problem they're trying to solve is the difficulty of scaling today's RDBMS systems across potentially massive clusters of commodity x86 servers, and doing so in a way that's "elastic," so that an organization can scale its infrastructure up and down as demand requires.
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New bill would ban some U.S. e-waste exports
New legislation in the U.S. Congress would prohibit U.S. companies from exporting hazardous electronic waste to developing nations where some computers, monitors, and electronic devices are recycled in primitive conditions.
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Enterprise IT unhappy with Firefox 4's quick demise
Some corporate IT managers are unhappy with Mozilla's decision to push out new editions of Firefox every six weeks with its new rapid-release program. Their beefs center around the retirement of Firefox 4 from security support -- a move Mozilla decided on this spring when it kicked off its fast-paced regime -- and their inability to test any new version before the next comes down the pike.
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Terremark-Verizon cloud service ready to go
Ten weeks after completing its $1.4 billion acquisition of Terremark, Verizon is ready to roll out an expanded set of cloud services powered by nearly 50 data centers around the globe.
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Gartner: New security demands arising for virtualization, cloud computing
The rush toward virtualization of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it's largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices.
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Enterprise Java upgrade geared to PaaS clouds
The next version of enterprise Java will be fitted with capabilities for PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud computing, an Oracle official said Thursday afternoon in offering specifics on what to expect in the upgrade.
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Oracle Q4 net income rises 36 percent
Oracle's net income for the fourth quarter ended May 31 rose 36 percent to $3.2 billion over the same period last year, results that reflect growth in software sales but a slight dip in hardware revenue, the company reported Thursday. Total revenue for the quarter grew 13 percent to $10.8 billion. New software license sales, which are considered a key indicator of growth and customers' attitude toward IT spending, rose 19 percent to $3.7 billion.
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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.8
Fire up Software Update! In what may be the last Snow Leopard-era OS update ever before Lion’s official first roar, Apple on Thursday released Mac OS X 10.6.8.
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