IBM acquires Fiberlink as mobile-security strategy keystone
IBM announced on Wednesday an agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, saying the purchase is a key part of a broader mobile-security strategy to provide assurance in transactions conducted via devices such as iPhones and Android smartphones.
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Amazon launches virtual desktops as it assails private clouds as 'stopgap solutions'
Private clouds offer "none of the benefits" of a robust public cloud, and are only a stopgap solution perpetuated by "old-guard" IT companies such as IBM, said Andy Jassy, Amazon senior vice president who heads up Amazon Web Services. "If you're not planning on using the public cloud in some significant fashion, you will be at a significant competitive disadvantage," Jassy told a packed auditorium of nearly 9,000 IT pros Wednesday in Las Vegas, for the opening keynote of the AWS Reinvent conference.
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Dropbox lowers the wall between personal and business accounts
Dropbox is taking another shot at the enterprise with a completely redesigned version of its service that allows end users to see separate containers for personal and work content on the same device simultaneously and gives more control to IT administrators over corporate files, including real-time monitoring of where files are traveling. Dropbox has had a business product since 2012, and earlier this year it rolled out some new features for administrators.
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Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, ColdFusion
Adobe Systems released security updates for Flash Player, AIR and ColdFusion to fix critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of affected systems or read information from servers without authorization. The updates for Flash Player and Adobe AIR, an Internet rich application runtime with Flash support, fix two memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution.
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Suse Linux Enterprise expands regular support to 10 years
Suse Linux Enterprise (SLE) version 11 and up will come with 10 years of general support instead of the seven years offered up to now, in a move that matches services from competitors. "We will move to a new life cycle of Suse Linux Enterprise," said Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager for Suse, during his keynote at the Susecon 2013 conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. A video of the keynote was posted on YouTube.
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Verizon cozies up with Cloud Foundry as PaaS market heats up
Verizon, which just recently launched a major overhaul to its cloud platform, today announced plans to integrate the VMware/EMC-backed Cloud Foundry open source platform as a service (PaaS) initiative into its offering. Here's why that news is important: the PaaS market is getting awfully crowded, awfully fast.
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Cyanogen makes it easier to install alternate Android OS
Android users have long been frustrated with the way handset makers lag in upgrading Android.
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Xamarin teams with Microsoft on cross-platform mobile development
Xamarin is partnering with Microsoft and will announce Wednesday better integration of its development tools with
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DOJ says Lavabit cannot prevent search warrants by 'locking its front gate'
Even after obtaining the encryption keys from secure email provider Lavabit through a court, the government was prevented by the court order and various laws from accessing other Lavabit users' accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday in a filing in an appeal by Lavabit.
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook furious after denied full view of government reply to FISA court
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn are objecting to the U.S. government's decision to provide them only a redacted version of its response to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to a request by the companies that they be allowed to publish information on users' data requests from the government. The companies said in a filing in the court Tuesday that they have been provided only a "heavily redacted version" of the government's submissions, which included its response and a supporting declaration, and all requests for greater access have been rejected.
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The 'Internet of things' needs a lot of work
Mobile connected devices may make life easier for consumers in the long run, but today they present a bundle of user headaches, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday. Smart homes, Internet-connected cars, and wearable devices represent the next generation of mobile gear beyond smartphones. The new systems will coexist with phones for at least the next few years, though given the changes that have occurred since the iPhone's introduction in 2007, it's hard to predict what mobile will look like 10 years from now.
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Oracle seeks Java performance boost, joins HSA Foundation
Oracle has joined the industry consortium HSA Foundation, which is developing standards to make it easier for programmers to take advantage of GPUs and other processor types for faster code execution. The Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation is developing a set of open-source programming tools that will make it easier for programmers to harness the joint power of CPUs, graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and digital signal processors for better system performance.
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Study shines a light on how long hard drives actually last
Few things in computing are as vital as the lowly hard drive. If your memory goes bad or your processor blows, it's easy enough to switch out; when a hard drive gives up the ghost, your precious files expire along with it.All of which begs the question: Just how long do hard drives last?[ Managing backup infrastructure right is not so simple. InfoWorld's expert contributors show you how to get it right in this "Backup Infrastructure Deep Dive" PDF guide. ]
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