Intel appeals EU's $1.3 billion antitrust fine
Intel this week presented an array of arguments to the E.U. General Court against a massive €1.06 billion ($1.3 billion) fine imposed by Europe's antitrust regulators. In 2009, the European Commission fined Intel for using rebates to block rivals. The Commission says that between 2002 and 2005, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Lenovo and Media Saturn Holding all received financial incentives from Intel not to buy computer chips from its rivals.
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Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion by the numbers
Like 2009, this year is one of dueling operating system upgrades, when the two biggest OS rivals face off with new editions. We've covered both the Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion upgrades, and spelled out what's known so far about their prices, release dates, delivery methods, upgrade paths and more.
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5 mistakes to avoid when deploying an enterprise app store
As personal mobile devices flood the corporate workplace, you'd think every company would have its own app store, right?
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Microsoft to patch under-attack XML bug next week
Microsoft Thursday confirmed that it will patch a vulnerability in Windows next week that has been exploited by an increasing number of attacks. Initially, experts wondered whether Microsoft would patch the XML Core Services (MSXML) vulnerability in Windows that it first acknowledged June 12, but failed to fix even as attacks leveraging the flaw steadily ramped up.
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Spammers have started using Android botnets, researchers say
A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and antivirus firm Sophos. Terry Zink, program manager for Microsoft Forefront Online Security, was the first to report about the spam messages. They all come from Yahoo's email servers and they are sent from Android devices, he said in a blog post on Tuesday.
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What Intel/McAfee means for the future of security
Intel completed its multibillion-dollar acquisition of McAfee almost a year and a half ago, and this week McAfee co-President Mike DeCesare spoke with Network World senior editor Ellen Messmer about what the merger of Intel's chip-making capabilities and McAfee's security expertise is expected to bring down the road. Network World: What can we expect going forward from the Intel buy of McAfee? What do we get from this that represents the strengths of both combined?
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Hundreds of job listings discriminate against U.S. workers, report says
IT job board Dice.com has hundreds of listings for jobs that aren't available to U.S. tech workers because the listings are aimed at foreign visa holders, said Bright Future Jobs, a group of high-tech professionals focused on encouraging U.S. IT workers.
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Good news for IT: Bonuses are back, pay rates are up
Compensation and hiring for IT professionals are gradually rising and have just reached January 2008 levels, according to a study from Janco Associates titled "Mid-Year 2012 IT Salary Survey." Layoffs have tapered off, companies are bringing mo
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Apple's popularity boosts Objective-C language past C++
Thanks to the popularity of Apple's iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the Objective-C language has overtaken C++ in Tiobe's monthly assessment of programming language popularity.
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