Oracle issuing 66 security patches
Oracle is planning to release on Tuesday 66 security patches affecting hundreds of products, according to a notice posted on its website. A number of the patches are for vulnerabilities that meet the most serious risk level under the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, Oracle said. Products affected include Oracle Audit Vault, JRockit, Solaris, and WebLogic Server.
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Google tightens Apps' uptime guarantee
Google is modifying its Apps service level agreement in ways that increase the company's accountability whenever the hosted collaboration and communication software experiences downtime, the company plans to announce on Friday.
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New Cassandra comes with big data support
The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source application, able to hold up to 2 billion columns per row. An open source database capable of holding such lengthy rows could be most useful to big data cloud computing projects and large-scale Web applications, the developers behind the Apache Software Foundation project assert.
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Adobe finally promises to help rein in Flash cookies
Five months after a string of lawsuits unveiled Flash's complicity
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Verizon iPhone redesign may thwart 'death grip' antenna problems
Apple has redesigned the iPhone 4's antennas for Verizon, perhaps to foil the "death grip" problem that roiled AT&T customers last summer, an expert said today.
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HP exec hints at larger role for WebOS
A recent CNBC interview with a Hewlett-Packard executive is focusing attention on the company's expected WebOS device news, including a possible tablet, on Feb. 9 in San Francisco.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
Yes, yes, we know: There's a new iPhone available. Or at least a semi-new one. Verizon's entry into formerly exclusive AT&T territory was not the week's only news, though you might not know it from the wall-to-wall coverage. What else happened? Google's got yet another sweet release of Android in the works. Twitter released the names of people sought by U.S. authorities in the ever-expanding WikiLeaks case. Apple and Microsoft are fighting again, this time over trademarks. And Congress is leaping once again into the online piracy fray (so take cover).
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Intel records revenue and profit gains in Q4
Intel on Thursday said it wrapped up a strong fiscal 2010 with profit and revenue gains in the fourth quarter, and predicted a strong fiscal year 2011. The company reported net income of $3.4 billion for the quarter ended on Dec. 25, up by 48 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Earnings per share were $0.59, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
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Report: DOJ prepares challenge to Google's ITA acquisition
The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing documents for an antitrust challenge of Google's planned acquisition of travel software maker ITA Software, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. The DOJ has not made a final decision on whether to challenge the $700 million acquisition, but DOJ staffers have begun preparing documents to file in a challenge, the Journal article said. The DOJ is expected to make a decision about whether to challenge the acquisition by early February, said the Journal, citing an unnamed source.
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Dell services chief to leave company
Dell said Thursday it has replaced the head of its $8 billion services business, which it built up in late 2009 through its acquisition of Perot Systems. Peter Altabef, the former CEO of Perot who was made president of Dell Services after the acquisition, stepped down from that position on Tuesday, Dell said. [ Keep up with the news of the day with the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. ]
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Windows on verge of dropping below 90% market share
Windows is on the verge of dropping below 90 percent market share, with smartphones and tablets posing an increasingly serious threat to Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market.
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IBM's Watson: Your next VP of marketing?
Unless movies in which robots with advanced intelligence pose a threat to humankind give you nightmares, you may very well be delighted, or at least intrigued, by IBM's "Jeopar
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AT&T to lose 26% of iPhone owners to Verizon, survey shows
More than one-in-four iPhone owners now using AT&T will switch to Verizon, a U.S. consumer survey said today. According to ChangeWave Research, 26 percent of iPhone owners said that they will leave AT&T for Verizon Wireless. The biggest chunk of those consumers will make the switch in the first three months that Verizon offers the iPhone 4, with the bulk of the remainder dumping AT&T within the next year.
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