Intel ready to take on tablet chips
Intel is ready to start cranking out chips for tablets, but is the chip maker moving fast enough to boost its presence in the mobile market? Intel COO Brian Krzanich told Reuters this week that the company has quickly reworked its fabrication facilities to prep for building tablet chips.
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Don't be just a PaaS-erby
The PaaS-abilities are endless. Industry analysts are saying that now is the right time for developers to look to Platform-as-a-service as a viable option. Gartner has estimated that the worldwide PaaS market will reach $927.3 million this year. “We went from prototyping on 30 machines to a full deployment on 3,000 machines in just eight weeks,” says Raj Kushwaha, global CIO at medical manufacturer Zimmer.
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Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights
The FCC's proposal to kill LightSquared's planned LTE network would violate the fledgling carrier's property rights by taking away its spectrum and destroying its multibillion-dollar investment in mobile broadband, LightSquared will argue on Friday in a formal comment to the agency.
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Leaked exploit prompts researcher to publish blueprint for critical RDP vulnerability
Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who discovered a recently patched critical vulnerability in Microsoft's RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), published a proof-of-concept exploit for it after a separate working exploit, which he said possibly originated from Microsoft, was leaked online on Friday.
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Apple protestors darken the new iPad's big day
In sync with today's launch of the new iPad, dozens of protestors today joined eager prospective iPad owners at Apple Stores in Georgetown, New York City, and San Francisco to protest
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Google says it will cooperate with Safari privacy investigations
Google will cooperate with any investigations into allegations that it bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser, the company said, after a news report that both U.S. and E.U. officials are investigating the company. A Google spokeswoman declined to confirm any investigations, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, but promised cooperation if there are inquiries.
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Android continues to be most targeted by hackers
Android is still the most attractive smartphone OS for malevolent hackers, so devices based on the platform will continue to get compromised, researchers said at Black Hat Europe Friday. Mobile devices are loaded up with private data, a very attractive target for hackers, though not all information on a phone is useful. "They won't go after 200,000 Yelp credentials, that wouldn't help them much," said Dan Guido, a researcher at information security company Trail of Bits, in a combined keynote with Mike Arpaia, security consultant with Isec Partners.
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Windows exploit leaked -- by Microsoft?
An attack exploiting a recently patched critical Windows flaws appeared on a Chinese site Thursday -- and the source of the code appears to be Microsoft itself.
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Is mobile virtualization right for your business?
New ideas in IT go through a long distillation process. Someone invents the idea, vendors talk about new product concepts, analysts weigh in on the value. Eventually, a new category of hardware or software materializes, but rarely in a fully formed state. With mobile virtualization, the pedigree is sound: Most organizations use some form of server virtualization in their data centers.
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German court suspends Apple's patent case against Samsung
Samsung Electronics got a reprieve from Apple's legal onslaught in Germany on Friday, as a court in Mannheim suspended a case about Apple's slide-to-unlock feature because of questions regarding related intellectual property protection. The district court in Mannheim stayed proceedings until the German Patent and Trade Mark Office makes a decision regarding the validity of the so-called utility model that protects Apple's slide-to-unlock feature, which Samsung has challenged and Apple thinks Samsung has infringed on, a spokesman for the Mannheim district court said.
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IBM battles dire mainframe myths
The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM's chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio.
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Google plans major overhaul of its search
Google is planning major changes to its search engine that will make it easier and faster for users to get the information they need. The company, according to Google Fellow Amit Singhal, is working to give its search engine a better understanding of the words it's searching. Google wants to do away with simply searching for word strings and coming out with website links, according Singhal.
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Are you paying too much for cloud services?
Knowing exactly how much and what type of cloud service a company needs is one of the more challenging aspects of deploying a cloud strategy, and most enterprises are getting it wrong, according to experts.
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