Lenovo's profit up 30 percent, mobile business unit continues to grow
Chinese PC maker Lenovo said on Thursday that net profit in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30 grew by 30 percent year-over-year, as the company inched closer toward surpassing HP to become the top vendor in the market. Lenovo's net profit reached $141 million in the quarter, up from $108 million in the same period a year ago. The company's revenue in the quarter was at $8 billion, a year-over-year increase of 35 percent.
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U.S. loses fight to keep tight hold on Megaupload evidence
The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement. The United States had asked for a judicial review following a New Zealand District Court ruling on May 29 ordering it to turn over some evidence to allow the four -- Kim Dotcom, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann, and Bram Van Der Kolk -- to prepare for the hearing.
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ITU seeks public input on the future of Internet regulation
The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has called for a public consultation on a draft document ahead of a December meeting to finalize a new treaty for regulation of the Internet, it said Wednesday.
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Oracle has been good to Java, despite early fears
Despite fears that Oracle would not be the ideal shepherd for Java, the platform has benefited since Oracle took over in early 2010, says IDC analyst Al Hilwa.
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AT&T hit by DDoS attack, suffers DNS outage
A distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at AT&T's DNS (Domain Name System) servers has disrupted data traffic for some of the company's customers. The multi-hour attack began Wednesday morning West Coast time and at the time of this writing, eight hours later, does not appear to have been mitigated.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 now available for developers
Developers can now download the Visual Studio 2012 software development platform and accompanying .Net Framework 4.5, a Microsoft official revealed on Wednesday.
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Microsoft bans 'metro' from Windows Store apps
Microsoft has told Windows 8 app developers that if they use the word "metro" in the name of their software, the app will be denied access to the Windows Store. The warning now appears in online guidelines for developers, in a section labeled "Naming your app."
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Android becomes the latest platform to drop Flash support
As of today, Adobe's Flash media infrastructure is no longer supported on the Android mobile platform, marking a further shift of momentum toward the alternative HTML5 standard.
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Citadel exploit goes after weakest link at airport: employees
The latest exploit of the Citadel Trojan is yet more evidence that enterprise perimeter security is only as strong as the weakest endpoint device of its employees. Which is another way of saying, not very strong.
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Call for help on Gauss highlights new malware era
Kaspersky Lab is asking for help in unraveling the mysterious payload of Gauss, a task that security experts say would help enterprises determine whether they are potential targets of the highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance virus.
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Rackspace releases its OpenStack private cloud software for free
Rackspace today released Rackspace Private Cloud Software, thus offering organizations a free download of the same complete version of Essex OpenStack that the company runs
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Security vendor exposes vulnerabilities in DDoS rootkit
In what it says is an attempt to turn the tables on malicious hackers, security vendor Prolexic on Tuesday released details of vulnerabilities it has discovered in a toolkit family used by hackers to launch distributed denial of service attacks against corporate networks. The disclosure is designed to give IT security staff information they can use to mitigate attacks launched using the DDoS toolkit, according to Prolexic.
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Microsoft stops publishing new mobile apps amidst download issues
Microsoft has decided to stop publishing new apps for Windows Phone on Marketplace, while it addresses an issue that led to users experiencing problems with application downloads this week, the company said in blog post on Tuesday.
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