AMD continues move toward profitability
AMD hopes for financial stability after years of struggles, but analysts said that a volatile PC market could derail the chip designer's progress. Keeping with its projection earlier this year, AMD's CEO Rory Read said Thursday that the company would deliver a profit in the third fiscal quarter, which will be reported in September. The company is making progress as part of a "three-step strategy to restructure, accelerate and ultimately transform AMD for growth," Read said in a conference call about earnings.
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Why have Apple's Dev Center and forums have been down for more than 24 hours?
The Apple Dev Center is been down for more than 24 hours, according to several reports; the Apple Developer Forums are also down. At this point, one can only speculate on the cause of the outage.
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SAP reveals road map details for its HANA in-memory platform
SAP has provided an extensive window into the future direction of its HANA in-memory database platform, which has emerged as the central pillar of the company's product strategy. A lengthy HANA road map document, which was made public this week, reveals a wide array of upcoming features, although no specific release dates were given and it notes that plans can change "at any time."
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Attackers embedding back doors into image files
Researchers at Sucuri, a firm focused on website security awareness and attack recovery, have discovered attackers using a known, but a rather uncommon method of maintaining access to an already compromised server: They're hiding back doors inside the headers of legitimate image files.
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One more botched Microsoft 'Black Tuesday' patch: KB 2844286
It's been a banner month for Microsoft patches.
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Ex-NSA chief: Huawei spies for China, Snowden security leak 'most destructive' in U.S. history
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After the latest Android 4.3 leak, here's what we know
Leaks about the upcoming Android 4.3 release don't seem to bother Google, given that one of its employees just sold a Nexus 4 phone with the unreleased operating system installed.
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U.K. to probe Huawei's cybersecurity evaluation center
The U.K. government is launching a review of a vetting process for products from Huawei Technologies, reflecting continuing security concerns about the Chinese company.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules warrants are needed for phone tracking
Cellphone users have a reasonable expectation of privacy of their cellphone location information, and police must obtain a search warrant before accessing that information, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled Thursday.
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Surface RT tanked, but expect Microsoft's numbers to come out rosy
Face it: To Microsoft, the $900 million Surface RT write-off is chump change.
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The future is 'ultramobile': Intel makes the PC persona non grata
Although the PC isn't disappearing anytime soon, it may as well be the deranged grandmother locked away within Intel's attic, whose faint screams are ignored in the rooms below. Indeed, Intel's newly minted chief executive, Brian Krzanich, didn't even mention notebooks, let alone the desktop PC, in his prepared remarks during INtel's recently quarterly earnings call. And the only mention he made of the personal computer was a mea culpa: "We were slow to respond to the ultramobile PC trend," he said, admitting that part of Intel's job was to scan for trends and react to them.
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Facebook snatches startup Monoidics' assets to support mobile apps
Facebook has acquired certain assets of U.K.-based startup Monoidics, in a move aimed at bolstering the social network's increasingly important array of mobile applications and software. Monoidics, which is based in London, offers code verification software and quality assurance tools to analyze other companies' code and enhance it, partly by removing bugs or other defects. One tool, for instance, is Monoidics' Infer Static Analyzer, which the company refers to as the first advanced static code analyzer to focus directly on memory safety and security.
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Ad-rate declines, mobile losses soften Google's earnings
Google's second-quarter revenue increased by 19 percent to about $14 billion, aided by consumers' shift to mobile devices, the company announced Thursday. But its stock fell as revenues and profits fell below Wall Street estimates, mainly due to ongoing reductions in ad rates and to huge losses suffered by Google's Motorola Mobility division, which all but disappeared from the mobile market a year ago as it is rumored to be reworking its entire product line.
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