Mac BlackBerry users finally get desktop manager from RIM
It's been a long time coming, but after promises, previews, and unexpected leaks, BlackBerry officially released the desktop Mac client for its popular smartphone platform on Friday.
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Security researcher shows how hackers spy on BlackBerry and other smartphones
IPhone lovers and other smartphone users should take heed: A security researcher showed ways to spy on a BlackBerry user during a presentation at the Hack In The Box (HITB) conference Wednesday, including listening to phone conversations, stealing contact lists, reading text messages, taking and viewing photos, and figuring out the handset's loc
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FCC's Genachowski to tackle wireless issues at CTIA
What once looked to be a quiet CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show this week is now taking place amid a growing buzz about U.S. regulatory issues, with several appearances by U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski shaping up as the centerpiece.
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Update: Compuware buys Web application management vendor Gomez
Compuware said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Web application management vendor Gomez for $295 million. The transaction is expected to close in November.
Gomez's technology will work in concert with Compuware's portfolio of tools for managing the performance of on-premises applications, providing coverage "from the datacenter to the customer," the companies said in a statement.
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Google gains ground in search wars as Microsoft’s Bing slips
As the search wars continue, new numbers are in showing that Microsoft's Bing slipped while Google inched further ahead last month.
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Microsoft, EU reach accord on antitrust
tString := StoryDateLine + " (" + @Text(StoryFiledDate) + ") - "; @If(datelineinbody = "No"; tString; "")Microsoft appears to have reached an agreement with the European Commission that concludes an antitrust battle that has lasted a decade, Europe's top competition regulator said Wednesday.
A proposal the company offered in July to address charges of monopoly abuse were dismissed as insufficient by the Commission as well as by rivals in the software industry. But the latest iteration appears to have mollified the EC's regulator.
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Stolen Hotmail data reveals widespread use of weak passwords
1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail. That's according to Bogdan Calin, a security researcher who got hold of 10,000 stolen Windows Live Hotmail usernames and passwords that were posted to the Web site PasteBin late last week.
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LTE mobile broadband will deliver 20Mbps download speeds
When the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks and devices are launched next year, users can expect to see a download speed of about 20 Mbps, according to Motorola and ZTE.
On the show floor at ITU World, ZTE and Fujitsu are showing upcoming modems that support download speeds of up to 100 Mbps (bits per second) and upload speeds of up to 50 Mbps when connected to an LTE network, according to their respective spec sheets.
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CIA endorses cloud computing approach to bolster security
WASHINGTON -- One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates of cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency. But the CIA has adopted cloud computing in a big way, and the agency believes that the cloud approach makes IT environments more flexible and secure.
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ZDNet Web site accused of offering stolen Chinese software code
Solid Oak Software filed its first lawsuit in a case of Chinese software code theft against TV giant CBS's Internet division, CBS Interactive.
The Santa Barbara, California, company filed the suit against CBS Interactive for distributing software that contained programming code stolen from its CyberSitter software, which filters pornography, violence and other Internet content deemed bad for kids.
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Adobe AIR update to address performance, memory leak issues
While Flash Player got most of the attention at Adobe Systems' developer conference this week, the company also announced an update to Adobe AIR, a runtime environment that allows Flash programs to run offline on the desktop.
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Microsoft, EU reach accord in antitrust battle over IE browser
Microsoft appears to have reached an agreement with the European Commission that concludes an antitrust battle that has lasted a decade, Europe's top competition regulator said Wednesday.
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Eclipse Pulsar smartphone app dev platform gets an upgrade
In an upgraded release of its Eclipse Pulsar tools platform for smartphone application development Wednesday, the Eclipse Foundation will add support for Ericsson and Sony Ericsson developer communities.
Pulsar represents an attempt by Eclipse to provide a common set of tools in a single distribution for multiplatform smartphone application development. Developers, however, still need to do separate builds for different phone brands and access individual SDKs.
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