Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT?
Microsoft may have simply run out of time with Windows RT, an analyst said today. Windows RT, the name Microsoft slapped on the OS earlier this week after calling it "Windows on ARM," or WOA, for months, is the forked version of Windows 8 designed to run on devices powered by ARM SoCs, or system-on-a-chip.
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Proof-of-concept Android Trojan app analyzes motion sensor data to determine tapped keys
A team of researchers from PSU (Pennsylvania State University) and IBM have designed a proof-of-concept Android Trojan app that can steal passwords and other sensitive information by using the smartphone's motion sensors to determine what keys victims tap on their touchscreens when unlocking their phones or inputting credit card numbers during phone banking operations.
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AT&T Watson vs. Apple Siri: Talkin' about a smackdown?
AT&T Labs says its Watson speech recognition technologies have been around for more than 20 years, and come this June, it will put APIs and SDKs in the hands of developers who want to give users a way to interact with smartphones, TVs, and other devices using their voices.
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Apple pursues ban on altered Samsung Galaxy tablet in Germany
A Düsseldorf court has set a date to hear an appeal from Apple, which is seeking an injunction preventing Samsung Electronics from selling a tablet modified to beat an earlier injunction, a court spokesman said on Friday. The hearing is set for June 5, said Ulrich Egger, a spokesperson for the higher regional court in Düsseldorf.
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Are zombies sucking the life out of your data center?
Even if your organization has gone the virtualization route or is leveraging the cloud, chances are you're still operating at least some of your own infrastructure. And that means there's a good chance you're operating servers and other equipment that are achieving nothing but the consumption of resources. That's right; you've got zombies in your data center.
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Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies
Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't share with them what they learn from it. Berners-Lee, who is often described as the inventor of the World Wide Web, was speaking out against the U.K.'s proposal to allow government intelligence to monitor digital communications. Berners-Lee is a U.K. native.
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Microsoft touts corporate tools in Windows 8 Enterprise
Microsoft yesterday laid out the exclusive features of Windows 8 Enterprise, one of three editions of the upcoming OS and the only one limited to corporate customers. Windows 8 Enterprise will be available only to businesses that have signed Software Assurance deals with Microsoft. Software Assurance is a kind of software insurance that lets firms upgrade to every new version of a specific product released during the life of the agreement.
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Symantec: 'VeriSign Trusted' mark out, 'Norton Secured' in
Symantec is phasing in a new trust mark to ensure Web users that the sites they are visiting are safe. Symantec has been replacing "VeriSign Trusted" with "Norton Secured, powered by VeriSign."
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Security, privacy ideas emerge at Demo conference
The cool new Internet ideas of yesteryear often create the headaches of today, and some startups at the Demo conference are starting to try to solve those problems. Young companies at this week's edition of Demo will be pitching a service to secure online transactions, a way to wipe objectionable entries from Facebook profiles, and a tool to simplify terms of service for both developers and consumers.
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IT departments should worry about Google Drive
Google Drive is poised to give IT departments yet another headache to deal with. Drive, the name of Google's data-syncing cloud storage service that's rumored to launch sometime next week, will likely offer many of the features of popular storage apps such as Dropbox and Box, including 5GB of free storage with upgrades of up to 100GB of storage for users willing to pay for service.
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Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations
Microsoft revenue grew across most of its businesses in the third quarter, with the exception of its entertainment division, but profit fell slightly, the company said on Thursday. Overall, revenue grew 6 percent to $17.41 billion in the quarter ended March 31, but net income dropped to $5.11 billion, or $0.60 per share, from $5.23 billion, or $0.61 per share, a year earlier.
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No sign of Sun in Oracle conference rooms
Apparently, some people are waxing sentimental about the now-defunct Sun Microsystems and are troubled by, of all things, a proposal to dump the names of conference rooms at a former Sun facility.
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Apple offers free OS X upgrade to prep for switch to iCloud
Apple is offering Mac users a free upgrade to OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, in an attempt to prep them for the June switch from MobileMe to the newer iCloud online sync and backup service. Snow Leopard, which debuted in 2009, does not support iCloud -- only OS X 10.7, or Lion, does -- but with the free upgrade to the former, users will have to pay only one upgrade fee, the $29.99 for Lion, to use the service.
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