Yahoo picks Google's Marissa Mayer as CEO
Yahoo has picked Google's Marissa Mayer as its new CEO, replacing Scott Thompson, the former PayPal president who left the Yahoo post less than six months into his tenure following a controversy about his college education. Mayer was Google's 20th employee and was for many years one of the search giant's most visible and well-known executives. Most recently, Mayer had been in charge of Google's Local, Maps, and Location products.
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Cisco acquires Virtuata to secure virtual machine data
Cisco has acquired Virtuata, a privately held developer of technology for securing virtual machine data in multi-tenant data centers, the company said Monday. Virtuata helps to isolate each virtual machine from others in the same virtualized data center or cloud environment, Cisco said. It can help to address the security concerns of enterprises or service providers that want to host multiple customers, departments or applications in a single infrastructure. Cisco said the acquisition complements its mission to help customers create unified data centers.
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Symantec confirms blue-screening Windows XP PCs
Symantec last week crippled a large number of Windows XP machines when it shipped customers a defective update to its antivirus software, the company acknowledged Friday.
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Huawei eyes storage market after buy out of joint venture with Symantec
China's Huawei Technologies wants to take a bigger bite out of the enterprise market with a wider range of storage products, months after the company completed an acquisition of its joint venture with U.S. firm Symantec.
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Securing the new data center
Its hard enough to secure resources when they are bound to a physical box, but the game changes when servers are virtualized and start to move around, not only to other servers in the data center, but also to off-premise cloud facilities. How do you stay out ahead on security in this dynamic, new, virtualized, cloud-ready world?
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Blue Coat software lets companies block, control mobile apps
New software from Web security specialists Blue Coat Systems allows companies to restrict what employees can do on their cellphones while logged into the corporate Wi-Fi. The software, which works with Blue Coat's ProxySG Web filtering equipment, seeks to fill a gap that exists between company-issued PCs, which are often subject to security and access restrictions, and employee-owned cellphones, on which employees are often free to do what they want.
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Just linking could get you 10 years in jail
So you live in another country, say somewhere in Europe, maybe, oh I don't know, England. In your perambulations around the Internet you find a load of stuff that interests you and you think "Hmmm, other people might be interested in this, I'll share it online." You build a Web site that just lists the links ... and links are the only thing on the site ... and you turn it loose.
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Manufacturers boost IT spending, but not jobs
Manufacturing employment has been a bright spot for the economy, but IT workers aren't benefiting, a new report finds. Research firm Computer Economics found in its latest study that more than half of all manufacturers are holding IT head count level or cutting staff, even as they increase IT spending.[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Nvidia investigating breach of hashed passwords
Nvidia said it is investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums, another significant data breach following recent compromises at Yahoo and LinkedIn.
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Ex-Mozilla worker rails against developers' love of constant change, frequent updates
When a former Mozilla employee knocked the company's accelerated release schedule as having "killed Firefox's reputation," he got more than he bargained for.
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California jury returns verdict against RIM in patent suit
A jury in California found Research In Motion had infringed a patent relating to wireless device management owned by assignment by Mformation Technologies, a mobile device management technology provider in Edison, New Jersey. The jury awarded Mformation $147.2 million dollars in damages based on past sales in the U.S. of BlackBerry smartphones, connected to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server from late 2008, when the lawsuit was filed, through the trial date, Mformation said on Saturday.
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What the PC sales slump really means -- and why it will get worse
There's lot of both hand-wringing and hope going on today in the world of PCs. PC sales are down, despite all those sexy Ultrabooks that were supposed to reverse the trend and let PCs enjoy the same growth as Macs have had despite the economic woes. That's the hand-wringing.
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Should cyber crime defense include some offense?
A growing number of U.S. companies have concluded that in their battle against hackers, the best defense has to include some offense.
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