Debt reduction deadlock drags down corporate capital spending
The U.S. debt reduction deadlock in Congress is already taking a toll on how much companies are spending on property, buildings, and equipment, including computer hardware and software, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research.
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CA Technologies buys Watchmouse for cloud monitoring
CA Technologies is purchasing WatchMouse, a maker of SaaS-based tools for monitoring mobile and on-demand applications, the company announced Friday. Terms were not disclosed. The WatchMouse technology is sold via subscription and will be rolled into CA's portfolio of application monitoring tools. It will serve as a lower-cost, subscription-based alternative for customers who want to track application performance but don't need an extensive suite of capabilities, CA said.
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Sprint, LightSquared see green in LTE
Sprint Nextel's deal with LightSquared to build and run its LTE network for more than $13 billion in cash and credits all comes down to money.
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10 best practices to prevent data and privacy breaches
The antics of groups like Anonymous and LulzSec over the past few months have made data breaches seem inevitable.
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Google's two-step authentication goes worldwide
Google said Thursday that it has rolled out its two-step authentication sign-in system to 40 languages across over 150 countries. The service, which is intended to make it more difficult for hackers to break into Google accounts, has been available since February as an optional service but only in English.
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Phisher who hit 38,500 gets long prison sentence
A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took in more than 38,000 victims.
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Hadoop growing, not replacing RDBMS in enterprises
The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use of open source Apache Hadoop software. However, instead of replacing existing technologies, Hadoop appears to be finding more of a place working alongside conventional relational database management system platforms, according to a new report from Ventana Research.
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Microsoft fixes Mac Office bug in Apple's Lion
Microsoft has released an updated version of Communicator for the Mac that works with Apple's new Lion operating system. Communicator for Mac 2011 version 13.1.2 was released Thursday to Microsoft's download site, and will be pushed to users via the company's update service shortly, a Microsoft product director promised.
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Apple and Samsung overtake Nokia in smartphone sales in Q2
Apple and Samsung both sold more smartphones than Nokia in the second quarter, although Nokia still sold most phones overall, market researcher Strategy Analytics said Friday. Nokia's smartphone sales have plunged since its February announcement that its future smartphones will run Microsoft's Windows Phone instead of its own Symbian OS: In the second quarter, it shipped 16.7 million smartphones, down 30 percent from shipments of 23.8 million a year earlier.
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How to make Mac OS X Lion more like Snow Leopard
So you've downloaded Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store and updated your Mac. You're delighted by many of the new features, but there are some that rub you the wrong way. You may wish you could revert some of them to the behavior they had in OS X Snow Leopard. Maybe you just can't get used to the changes, or perhaps you simply don't find them appealing. Here's a look at some of the many new features that you can revert to the old way.
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The honeymoon's over for Google+
I'm not a Google+ fanboy any more.
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AMD takes microprocessor market share from Intel in Q2
Strong demand for Fusion chips helped Advanced Micro Devices take global microprocessor market share from Intel in the second quarter this year, Mercury Research said in a study released on Thursday. AMD's x86 microprocessor market share grew to 19.4 percent during the second quarter, up from 17.8 percent during last year's second quarter. Intel's market share fell to 79.9 percent from 81.3 percent in the year-ago quarter.
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