After hacking claims, second firm pulls digital certificates
Digital certificates issued by GlobalSign have come under scrutiny after a hacker's claim that he broke into the company's computer systems. If true, it would be the second such compromise in the past few weeks.
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Gartner lowers 2011 PC forecast with shift to tablets
Gartner on Thursday sharply dropped its worldwide PC shipment growth forecast for this year and next, citing economic struggles and a market shift from PCs to devices like tablets. Worldwide PC shipments will amount to roughly 364 million, a 3.8 percent increase compared to last year, Gartner said. That is a sharp drop from the firm's previous forecast of 9.3 percent growth, which was made in June before economic struggles heightened in mature markets such as U.S. and Europe.
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Microsoft investigates its own mobile location practices
Microsoft said this week it is investigating a lawsuit's allegation that the camera application on Windows Phone 7 handsets collects location data from nearby Wi-Fi and cellular networks -- even if the user refuses permission to do so.
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Cyber crime costs rival those of illegal drug trafficking
Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cyber crime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug trafficking worldwide, according to a study by the Norton division of Symantec.
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Amazon redesigning website for tablets, report says
Online retailer Amazon.com is reportedly redesigning its website, which sells everything from books to electronics and handbags, with a focus on supporting tablet computer users. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is eliminating some buttons and enlarging the search box to better meet the needs of mobile users.
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Amazon cloud SDKs for Android, iOS exit beta testing
Amazon's SDKs (software development kits) for Android and Apple's iOS have exited the beta testing phase, the company said on Wednesday. The company wants make it easier for developers to build mobile applications that take advantage of its cloud-based services. Previously, developers had to do more of the work themselves, according to Amazon.
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Researcher raps Apple for not blocking stolen SSL certificates
A security researcher criticized Apple for what he called "foot dragging" over the DigiNotar certificate fiasco, and urged the company to quickly update Mac OS X to protect users. "We're looking at some very serious issues [about trust on the Web] and it doesn't help matters when Apple is dragging its feet," said Paul Henry, a security and forensics analyst with Arizona-based Lumension.
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Survey: Value of the cloud, telecommuting overstated
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Cisco, take notice: Despite the near-constant hype about cloud computing services, most mid-market companies are still viewing cloud as a complement, not a replacement. SWC Technology Partners surveyed 210 mid-market IT and business leaders and found that cloud computing, at least for the mid-market and even more so in the enterprise, is still very early in its evolution. The survey also revealed a few surprises about the acceptance of telecommuting in the mid-market.
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Senators push for changes in cybercrime law
The main U.S. law targeting cybercrime may need to be changed because it has allowed law enforcement agencies to target people who simply violate websites' terms of service or their employers' computer use policies, two senators said Wednesday.
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IBM's futuristic storage aims for speed, density
IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances. The amount of data that enterprises have to deal with is growing so fast that they are coming up against power and space limits and grappling with how to manage the information, according to analysts, users and IBM officials at a press event that the company hosted in San Francisco on Wednesday.
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New patents from Google shore up HTC's defenses
Armed with new patents transferred from Google, HTC has filed a new lawsuit against Apple and amended two previous legal complaints. HTC filed the new lawsuit against Apple Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. HTC accuses Apple of infringing four patents in a range of products and services including Macintosh computers, iPhones, iPods, iPads, iTunes, MobileMe, and iCloud.
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If you use mobile devices, malware will come
IT people who try to secure mobile devices in a big company face three big conceptual problems. First, many, if not most, of the smartphones and tablets are from Apple. Both veteran and rookie users tend to believe Apple devices aren't vulnerable to malware and hacks, so users don't need to take any precautions.
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Google makes a green case for the cloud
Google released a study (PDF) today concluding that using cloud-based email is more energy efficient than running e
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