Apple's surprise: Its sales didn't decline like PC makers
It's been a miserable month for tech giants: Microsoft blew nearly $1 billion on unsold Surface RT tablets and has seen the PC business continue to shrink, which also hurt Intel and AMD.
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Report: Android spyware infections on the rise
An increasing number of Android phones are infected with mobile malware programs that are able to turn the handsets into spying devices, according to a report from Kindsight Security Labs, a subsidiary of telecommunications equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent.
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Salesforce.com updates mobile Chatter app with eye on productivity
Salesforce.com will soon roll out the fourth version of its mobile Chatter application, an update that gives users of the collaboration software more ways to view, retrieve and write back data to the core CRM (customer relationship management) system. One key new feature will give Chatter mobile users the ability to edit Salesforce.com records, such as customer-service cases or sales leads, from their devices, rather than only being able to read such records.
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SIM card hack has severe implications for business
It's amazing it took so long. More than 20 years after its initial development, the SIM card has been hacked. A German cryptographer named Karsten Nohl will be presenting findings to that effect at the annual Black Hat computer security conference at the end of the month.
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Apache launches major revision of OpenOffice suite
In its first major revision in more than a year, the Apache OpenOffice suite now comes with a sidebar, from which users can launch their favorite tools. "Over the years we saw the increased use of widescreen monitors, so we had to rethink how we used the user interface," said Rob Weir, of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee.
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Researcher claims responsibility for security breach at Apple developer website
An independent security researcher claimed responsibility for the security breach incident that forced Apple to close down its Developer Center website last week. Ibrahim Balic claims that he reported the vulnerability to Apple and didn't act with any malicious intentions, but he confirmed extracting user IDs, names, and email addresses from the website.
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Update: Cisco to acquire security vendor Sourcefire for $2.7 billion
Cisco is set to expand its security software portfolio with the acquisition of Sourcefire in a deal worth $2.7 billion. The combined company will offer a product set that provides "advanced threat protection across the entire attack continuum -- before, during and after an attack -- and from any device to any cloud," Cisco said Tuesday.
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Networks Solutions reports MySQL hiccups following attacks
Network Solutions warned on Monday of latency problems for customers using MySQL databases just a week after the hosting company fended off distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. "Some hosting customers using MySQL are reporting issues with the speed with which their websites are resolving," the company wrote on Facebook. "Some sites are loading slowly; others are not resolving. We're aware of the issue, and our technology team is working on it now."
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Intel will offer 'Broadwell' SOC to battle Calxeda, AMD
Intel has updated its road map with a new, low-power server chip to help it ward off competition from Calxeda and other makers of low-power chips. The new chip will be based on Broadwell, a microarchitecture to be introduced next year as the successor to Intel's Haswell design. But this processor will be a system-on-chip, setting it apart from Intel's other Xeon server products.
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Oracle hitches Java to 'Internet of things'
With an upgrade to the embedded version of Java announced Tuesday, Oracle wants to extend the platform to a new generation of connected devices, aka the Internet of things.
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Patent firm Eolas loses appeal in Web patents lawsuit
Patent firm Eolas Technologies lost an appeal against Google, J.C. Penney, Yahoo, and Amazon.com in a long-drawn lawsuit involving key Web patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed without comment on Monday an order by a federal court in Texas, which had ruled in July last year that several claims relating to the two patents in the suit were invalid.
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Cisco CEO: We will become the No. 1 IT company
Think software-defined networking will change the industry? You're thinking way too small, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. In Cisco's strategy, SDN is just a single element in a holistic architecture that brings intelligence, programmability and application awareness to every facet of your infrastructure and spans the data center to the cloud.
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DataStax primps Cassandra for developers
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