New boot firmware a step toward 64-bit Windows RT
A standards organization has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT. The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum on Wednesday announced that its boot firmware specifications will now support ARMv8, a 64-bit processor architecture announced by ARM in 2011. ARM's processors are used in most smartphones and tablets, and chip makers such as Nvidia and Samsung are expected to release 64-bit processors for smartphones and tablets in the future.
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VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper
SDN (software defined networking) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.
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Intel: Keeping up with Moore's Law becoming a challenge
Intel will advance Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but keeping up with it is becoming more challenging as chip geometries shrink, according to a company executive. Moore's Law is based on a theory that the number of transistors that can be placed on silicon doubles every two years, which brings more features on chips and provides speed boosts. Using Moore's Law as a baseline, Intel for decades has added more transistors while reducing the size and cost of a chip. The manufacturing advances help make smartphones, tablets and PCs faster and more power efficient.
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Office Web Apps improve, but they remain Web apps
If there's one thing I've always hated about Web-based productivity apps, it's everything associated with the word "Web." Trying to shoehorn the functionality of a full-blown desktop program into a Web browser, with all of its attendant
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Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage
Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the Internet blackout, which had gone into its second day, on a "malfunction in an optic cable," according to a report in the country's state-run Syrian Arab News Agency. The report also said engineers were working to repair it.
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Windows 7 patch KB 2670838 fries Firefox fonts
I'm seeing more reports of an odd font-rendering problem in Firefox: Random lines on a page have fonts with distinct color shifts, pixelating the ch
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NetSuite buys OrderMotion, fleshes out e-commerce portfolio
NetSuite is beefing up its cloud-based ERP software's order-processing features by acquiring OrderMotion, a move that could strengthen its appeal to customers in retailing. Terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed. OrderMotion's technology is aimed at companies that ship products directly to consumers. This is a business that has become more complex of late, thanks to ship-to-store programs, where a customer orders a product online and heads to a retail location to pick it up.
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Google simplifies content management on its cloud storage service
Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by users.
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An H-1B jobs database the tech industry may hate
Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign worker. But the bill's effectiveness may rise and fall on fuzzy terms, such as "preference" and "good faith" hiring, and its enforcement provisions. This is where the legislative battle may be fought.
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Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software
The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers. Identified as CVE-2013-2028, the vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow and was first introduced in the Nginx 1.3.9 development version back in November 2012. The flaw is also present in the 1.4.0 stable version released last month.
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Microsoft extends search revenue agreement with Yahoo
Microsoft has extended a search revenue guarantee agreement with Yahoo for one more year, amid reports that the Internet company is trying to break its 10-year agreement with Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software company, has agreed to extend the guarantee for an additional 12 months starting April 1, 2013, but only in the U.S., Yahoo said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Microsoft had in 2011 agreed to extend the guarantee in the U.S. and Canada through March 2013.
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Microsoft to boost authoring, editing features in Office Web Apps
Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android tablets via mobile Chrome browser support.The planned enhancements, scheduled for release at some point in the next 12 months, are part of a shift in the way Microsoft views Office Web Apps, the company said Tuesday.
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