Broadcom chip eases location tracking's thirst for power
Broadcom says it's invented a chip that can tell your phone where you are all the time without quickly draining your battery. The BCM47521 chip, which will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress next week, should make it easier to use apps that react to the user's location, said Richard Najarian, senior director of business development for GPS at Broadcom. That could include tools that mute an employee's ringer when they enter the office, send a text message when a child leaves school grounds, or tell a retailer when a loyal shopper is near a store.
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VMware and Citrix aim to simplify BYOD Virtualization rivals VMware and Citrix today separately rolled out new management tools aimed at helping IT admins support the use of mobile devices in the enterprise, while also ensuring that company apps and data remain secure. Read More ...
Adobe releases emergency patches for Reader and Acrobat Adobe released emergency patches for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 11, 10 and 9 on Wednesday that address two critical vulnerabilities being actively exploited by attackers. Read More ...
Linux-savvy IT pros are in high demand, low supply Linux skills are in high demand in the IT world, with 93 percent of hiring managers looking to hire a Linux professional in the next six months. Read More ...
Linaro extends Linux ARM to networking gear Hoping to extend Linux's reach to ARM-based networking equipment, the not-for-profit engineering group Linaro has launched an initiative to develop code to run routers, switches and other networking equipment. "As companies use ARM more and more in this space, then Linaro becomes a natural space for them to work together on this core enabling technology," said George Grey, CEO of Linaro. "There is intense interest [here] in the benefits that ARM brings." Read More ...
Yammer to deliver Office Web Apps, SkyDrive Pro integration this summer Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's ongoing push to deepen and extend the integration of its cloud-hosted enterprise social-networking software with products from Microsoft, which acquired Yammer last July for $1.2 billion. Read More ...
Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress making the unlocking of mobile phones illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). As of Wednesday morning, the petition, started by phone unlocking entrepreneur Sina Khanifar, still needed nearly 15,000 signatures by Saturday to trigger a response by the Obama administration. Read More ...
More Office 2013 bait-and-switch revelations As part of the deluge of mail flooding my way subsequent to the formal release of Office 2013, several people have complained about the way the Read More ...
Dell beefs up its deduplication appliance line Dell Wednesday unveiled upgrades to its disk-based backup appliance, boosting its capacity with expansion shelves, offering larger drives, and increasing the number of remote backups to a central data center. Read More ...
Apple iOS development extended to Visual Studio Developers using Microsoft's mainstay Visual Studio IDE on Windows will be able to build native Apple iOS mobile applications via version 2.0 of the Xamarin development platform, which is being announced Wednesday. Read More ...
China's Defense Ministry calls accusations of state-sponsored hacking groundless China's Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday refuted the accusations that the nation's military supports cyber espionage, and said a recent security report backing the claims used scientifically flawed evidence. Read More ...
Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle's legal fight against Google on Java Microsoft, EMC, and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed an amici curiae brief in support of appellant, according to court records. Read More ...
Canonical unwraps Ubuntu Linux for tablets It's been just a few weeks since Canonical announced Ubuntu for phones, but on Tuesday the company followed up by taking the wraps off the software's tablet counterpart. Read More ...
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