Survey: IT pros split on allowing users to download, install software
In their efforts to keep malware off their networks, some IT and security pros restrict users' rights to install apps on company machines, and the majority restrict the individual applications that are allowed on the network, a survey says.
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HP TouchPad demonstrated running Android
The challenge to port Google's Android OS to Hewlett-Packard's now-defunct TouchPad has been met, with a developer demonstrating an alpha version of the OS working on the tablet. In a demonstration on Youtube, a customized version of Android is demonstrated booting up on the TouchPad. The version is in its early stages with capabilities like touch not working.
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Citrix CloudStack shifts to single GPLv3 flavor
Just under 50 days after its acquisition of IaaS provider Cloud.com, Citrix has announced at VMworld today a new release of CloudStack, a release that will be completely open sourced.
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Analyst: RAM prices to plunge
The price of DDR3 memory used in laptops, desktops and servers will drop over the next two months as memory companies try to clear out excess inventory in a slowing PC market, IHS iSuppli said on Monday. The average selling price of DDR3 RAM with a 2-gigabit density will reach $1.60 later in the third quarter, down from $2.10 today, said IHS iSuppli in a research note. The price of DDR3 DRAM was around $4.70 in the third quarter a year ago, when the market had not saturated and adoption was growing to replace DDR2 memory, its predecessor.
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Four key things Google admitted to the Feds
In one of the largest settlements of its kind in U.S. history, Google agreed last week to pay the U.S. government half a billion dollars for allowing its advertising system to be abused by Canadian Internet prescription drug peddlers illegally importing their wares into the country. The size of the settlement wasn't the only eye-opener in the case.
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New Windows worm spreads by attacking weak passwords
A new Windows worm is working its way through company networks by taking advantage of weak passwords, security researchers said over the weekend. The worm, dubbed "Morto" by Microsoft and Helsinki-based F-Secure, has been circulating since at least last week, when company administrators noticed systems generating large numbers of unexplained connections to the Internet.
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Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company
Cisco Monday announced that it has acquired privately held Versly, a maker of collaboration software for Microsoft Office applications. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Budget cuts in U.S. mean uncertainty ahead for Indian outsourcers
Economic problems in the U.S. are likely to lead to cuts in IT budgets of up to 10 percent in some cases, according to a report released Monday by Offshore Insights, a research and advisory firm in Pune, India. Budget cuts have usually helped Indian outsourcers as companies look to low-cost locations to save money. But uncertainty about what shape the budgets will take is leading customers to delay decisions, and cut discretionary expenditure on IT, said Sudin Apte, CEO of Offshore Insights.
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Apple locks in new CEO Tim Cook through 2021
Apple's board of directors last Friday moved to lock in new CEO Tim Cook through mid-2021 by awarding him 1 million shares of the company's stock. "In connection with Mr. Cook's appointment as Chief Executive Officer, the Board awarded Mr. Cook 1,000,000 restricted stock units," Apple said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Dell to rival HP, IBM with public cloud service
Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services. The service will be based on VMworld's vCloud platform and delivered from Dell's data center in Plano, Texas. Customers will be able to rent compute and storage capacity on a pay-as-you-go basis, or on longer-term contracts that include reserved or dedicated hardware.
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Focus on smartphone, tablet screen sizes at show
At next week's Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) in Berlin, smartphone makers are expected to push the boundaries of the device's screen sizes, while also launching tablets and trying to accelerate the momentum for 3D-capable products. The show officially opens Friday, preceded by two days of press conferences where companies including Dell, Acer, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, HTC, Lenovo, and Toshiba are expected to launch products.
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Microsoft wants TPC to also measure database availability
The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC conference, being held this week in Seattle.
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VMware launches cloud-ready Postgres package
Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Postgres will be the first of a number of databases that the company plans to package in this format, all of which will be offered under the name of VMware vFabric Data Director, said David McJannet, VMware director of cloud and application services.
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