Souped-up storage: An all-SSD array debuts
SSD (solid-state drive) flash memory adoption in the data center has been hampered by high cost, but on the technical side the biggest obstacle has been legacy technology.
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Apple to hold iPhone special event on Oct. 4
The rumors will soon come to an end: Apple on Tuesday sent invitations to members of the press, including Macworld, announcing an iPhone-themed special event on Oct. 4 at 10 a.m. Pacific in Cupertino. As with most Apple event invitations, details are scarce. But the invitation featured four icons for iPhone apps: Calendar, with its icon displaying Tuesday the 4th; Clock, with the time displaying 10:00; Maps, with its usual icon, which displays Apple's Cupertino campus, and the Phone app, with a "1" badge.
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BoxTone blends mobile device control with enterprise directories, policies
BoxTone has released a new version of its mobile device management software, which now works with existing enterprise policy-setting and security tools. This integration lets enterprise IT staff apply those tools to mobile users.
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U.S. retains top ranking in IT environment
The U.S. continues to be the country with the best environment for IT companies, but Malaysia and India made significant advances in the Business Software Alliance's new IT Industry Competitiveness Index, released Tuesday.
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Google+ now 8th largest social network
Traffic exploded on Google+ after the social networking site opened to the public, shooting up 1,269 percent in one week, making the site the eighth largest social network on the Internet, according to Web analytics firm Hitwise. Google+ rose from the 54th most visited site social networking to the eighth, receiving nearly 15 million visits in one week. This number is likely to be larger because Hitwise's data does not include mobile traffic or traffic from the Google notification bar.
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Surprise! Google+ cookies behave themselves -- unlike Facebook's
By now you're well steeped in the latest Facebook cookie controversy. Even if you log off of Facebook, intrusive cookies remain and your Facebook ID can be transmitted any time you visit a page with a Facebook "Like" button.
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CloudFlare unveils free IPv6 translation service
Startup CloudFlare is turning the economics of IPv6 transition on its head with a free cloud-based IPv6-to-IPv4 translation service that is available to website operators starting today.
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Intermec moves into mobile management
Intermec, which has made a name for itself over four decades as a provider of rugged mobile devices mainly for service delivery and warehouse use, is moving quickly into mobile management software and services.
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Scammers pretend to be friendly office printers
Hackers have found a new hook to trick people into opening malicious attachments: send emails that purport to come from office printers, many of which now have the ability to email scanned documents. "This is a new tactic we haven't really seen before," said Paul Wood, senior intelligence analyst for Symantec.cloud, the company's Web-based security and email branch.
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Microsoft demos Craig Mundie's Chinese-speaking virtual avatar
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, doesn't speak Chinese. But on Tuesday he did, via a life-like virtual avatar shown at the company's offices in Beijing that can simulate his voice and speak in other languages. "What was spoken in Mandarin today I never recorded," he said after seeing the demonstration. "But it is my voice. They have a computer model of my voice box."
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Quake-prone Japanese area implements cloud-based disaster system
A coastal region of Japan due for a major earthquake and possible tsunamis has implemented a cloud-based disaster management system run by Salesforce.com. Shizuoka Prefecture, on Japan's eastern coast in the central region of the country, lies curled around an undersea trough formed by the junction of two tectonic plates. It has been rocked by repeated large temblors in past centuries, collectively called "Tokai earthquakes," and the central government has warned that with underground stresses high another is imminent.
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Update: Nokia ships the N9, its first and last MeeGo phone
Nokia has started shipping the N9, its first and last smartphone based on the MeeGo operating system, the company said on Tuesday. MeeGo is one of the operating systems Nokia decided to forsake in February when it announced plans to use Microsoft's Windows Phone as its primary operating system for smartphones. The other operating system Nokia nixed was Symbian.
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Lenovo, Compal to build factory to keep up with PC demand
PC vendor Lenovo has formed a joint venture with laptop contract manufacturer Compal Electronics to build and operate a new factory in China, as part of a move to keep up with product sales, Lenovo announced Tuesday. Lenovo and Compal are investing a total of $300 million over the next 18 months to start the new company and construct the factory. Lenovo will hold a 51 percent stake in the joint venture, while Compal will hold the remaining 49 percent.
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