NAND flash use is up, but Apple's buying binge slows
Even with the debut of refreshed products, Apple's growth in its consumption of NAND flash was weaker than expected this past quarter, according to a new report by IDC. Since 2011, Apple has been the biggest consumer of NAND flash. Its iPod is generally considered responsible for increasing the consumption and lowering the overall price of NAND, making it a more viable storage medium for other products, such as solid-state drives (SSDs).
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Linux gets a boost from mobile
Although not originally designed for telephones or tablets, the Linux kernel is now getting more contributions than ever from mobile and portable device vendors, whose input is driving a heretofore unseen rate of development for the open source project. "You see this tremendous acceleration of code happening due to an incredibly broad device enablement," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation, referring to how makers of tablets, smartphones, wearable computers, and sensor devices are all using the kernel.
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Security company says Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix XSS flaw
A Swiss security company said the Nasdaq website had a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability for two weeks before being fixed on Monday, despite earlier warnings. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of the Geneva-based penetration testing company High-Tech Bridge, said he repeatedly emailed Nasdaq and warned of the XSS flaw.
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Box joins crew of companies trying to disrupt Microsoft Office
You knew it had to happen.
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Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January
Mozilla last week said that slower-than-expected progress on Firefox for Microsoft's Windows 8 "Modern" user interface (UI) means that the touch-based browser likely won't launch until late January.
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FCC to auction H block spectrum in 2014
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will sell 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band for commercial mobile services in an auction beginning Jan. 14, the agency announced Friday.The agency set a minimum price for licenses in the so-called H block of $1.56 billion, with some of the money funding the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), a government board building a nationwide broadband network for public safety agencies.
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Twitter grabs spotlight, but tech IPOs were already hot
Even before Twitter's initial public offering announcement grabbed the spotlight Thursday, the market for tech IPOs had been heating up thanks to a general rise in stocks.There were 12 tech IPOs in the U.S. in the second quarter, twice as many as in the first quarter, according to the latest PwC Global Technology IPO Review, released Thursday. Second quarter IPOs were also up 50 percent year over year, in terms of the number of deals, PwC said.
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iOS 7 delivers some needed enterprise-friendly tweaks
The big news from Apple last week was, of course, the arrival of the new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. But Apple executives also recapped iOS 7, the next version of Apple's mobile OS for iPhones, iPads, and the iPod touch.iOS 7 rolls out on Wednesday, two days before the new phones will be available. And while it has a slew of new features users will like, the updated OS also offers important advances for enterprise users.
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The best laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks for Windows 8
No longer considered just a marketing ploy, Ultrabooks have taken over a good chunk of the notebook market. These thin, light, power-efficient laptops have gained a following among both users and manufacturers as an evolution of the portable computing form.Windows 8 has certainly played a part in this shift. By marrying a touch-driven tablet UI to the traditional Windows desktop, an Ultrabook (or tablet-laptop convertible or hybrid), Windows 8 has forced a rethink of the traditional notebook form, while at the same time delivering the Windows features users have come to expect.
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