Many employees won't mingle with enterprise social software
In a great IT industry irony, ESN (enterprise social networking) software, designed to boost interaction and collaboration, is often ignored by users and ends up forgotten like the proverbial ghost town with rolling tumbleweeds. The promise of a successful ESN deployment is appealing to businesses: implement a Facebook- and Twitter-like system for your workplace, with employee profiles, activity streams, document sharing, groups, discussion forums and microblogging, and watch employee collaboration bloom.
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ARM to ship mini-computer for writing 64-bit Android L apps
A new ARM mini-computer that could speed up the development of applications for 64-bit Android L smartphones and tablets will ship late next month.The hardware, which is an uncased computer, is aimed at professional developers and large companies to help them write middleware, drivers and tools for 64-bit Android smartphones and tablets, which are expected in the market by the end of the year.
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Sparc and Windows get more love in Oracle VM update
The latest release of Oracle's software for managing virtual machines offers the same set of features to Sparc users as to those who manage virtual machines on x86 servers. "With [Oracle VM] 3.3, a big part of the improvement is on the Sparc side," said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle senior vice president for Linux and virtualization engineering. "Both x86 and Sparc servers are on par in terms of functionality from the management console."
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Latest cyber security bill riddled with Net neutrality loopholes
The latest cyber security information sharing bill being considered in the Senate strikes many as overly broad and in need of revision.
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Critical vulnerability in WordPress newsletter plug-in endangers many blogs
A critical vulnerability found in a WordPress plug-in that has been downloaded over 1.7 million times allows potential attackers to take complete control of blogs that use it. The flaw is located in the MailPoet Newsletters plug-in, previously known as wysija-newsletters, and was discovered by researchers from Web security firm Sucuri.
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VMware opens up testing of next-gen vSphere to anyone
VMware is for the first time inviting anyone to beta test the next version of vSphere, the company's virtualization platform. The company is hoping to learn more about how organizations use vSphere under real-world conditions and test cases, it said. As VMware has expanded beyond server virtualization to set its sights on the whole datacenter, it has become more important for the company to get feedback from a larger group.
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China has the fastest supercomputer, but the U.S. still rules
More powerful supercomputers enable higher resolutions for modeling and simulations, more complex science, and the possibility of breakthrough discoveries. It's one reason why the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list is carefully watched. Computing power matters in this universe.
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Microsoft action against No-IP disrupting other hacking groups, Kaspersky says
Microsoft's seizure of domains from a DNS service provider has also disrupted some state-sponsored cyber espionage campaigns, according to security vendor Kaspersky Lab. A quarter of the long-term malware operations run by hacking groups tracked by the Russian security vendor have been affected by the seizure of domains from No-IP, wrote analyst Costin Rau on a company blog Tuesday.
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OpenSSL Project publishes roadmap to counter criticism
The OpenSSL Project is planning a number of changes to ensure its security component, used across millions of computers across the Internet, is in tip-top shape. OpenSSL is an open-source code library that encrypts communications between a computer and a server using SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security). It is a fundamental defense for keeping e-commerce transactions, email, and other data unreadable if the traffic is intercepted.
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Microsoft admits to technical error in IP takeover, but No-IP still down
Microsoft admitted Tuesday it made a technical error after it commandeered part of an Internet service's network in order to shut down a botnet, but the Nevada-based company says its services are still down. A federal court in Reno granted Microsoft an ex-parte restraining order that allowed it to take control of 22 domains run by No-IP, a DNS (Domain Name Service) provider owned by Vitalwerks, which was served the order on Monday.
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EFF sues the NSA to disclose use of software security flaws
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a prominent digital privacy rights group, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency to get it to specify the extent to which it might exploit software security flaws.
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4 ways PHP coding is getting less painful
It's easy to hate PHP despite the culture of software built on top of it.
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FTC: T-Mobile made hundreds of millions from unwanted SMS features
T-Mobile USA made hundreds of millions of dollars by charging customers for purported "premium" SMS subscriptions that, in many cases, they never ordered, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission says.
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