Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds
Platform-as-a-service cloud vendors Heroku and Engine Yard have been branching out to accommodate more developers by backing more programming languages.
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Italian firm takes on Skype deal in a David-Goliath battle
A complaint by a small Italian firm to the European Commission could derail Microsoft's acquisition of Skype. Messagenet, based in Milan, has written to the Commission to warn it about the probable antitrust ramifications arising from the merger of Skype and Microsoft. As a result, the Commission may demand the unbundling of Skype from Microsoft's dominant Windows Office suite before approving the proposed deal.
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Mobile devices are fast growing target of malware
Look for double the mobile exploits this year vs. 2010 and particularly watch out for mobile applications that are really malware, says IBM's X-Force security research team. Those are two warnings from the "X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report," which says that mobile application markets are a haven for malware.
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Facebook faces complaints over data retention practices
Facebook's data retention practices are under investigation by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner following a series of complaints filed by a European group critical of the social networking site. A total of 22 complaints have been filed with the Data Protection Commissioner by Europe v. Facebook, a group that claims the company is at odds with European privacy laws governing how companies manage personal data.
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Taking Moneyball tactics to the enterprise
The success of the Oakland Athletics in building a winning baseball team by using unique performance metrics tools, as shown in the movie Moneyball, could be repeated in corporate IT shops, say IT executives and analysts. Moneyball, which opened last week, is based on a 2003 book of the same name by Michael Lewis. It describes how the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane eschewed traditional metrics such as RBIs and home runs when evaluating and selecting players for the team.
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Dell launches new ultrathin laptop first in China
Dell launched a new ultrathin laptop in China on Friday called the XPS 14z, which is slated to arrive in other markets later this year to take advantage of the coming holiday shopping seasons.Dell is marketing the XPS 14z as the world's thinnest, fully featured laptop with a slot for a DVD drive. In terms of thinness, it measures 23 millimeters (0.9 inches) and is built with an aluminum case, making it resemble Apple's MacBook Pro line of laptops.
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RIM calls report of PlayBook's demise 'pure fiction'
Research in Motion said Thursday that it remains committed to the PlayBook tablet and the tablet market, discounting an analyst's report that said the death of the device is imminent.
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Intel to acquire location-based services company Telmap
Intel has signed an agreement to acquire Telmap, a company focused on mobile navigation and location-based services, search, and content, for an undisclosed amount, the company said in a blog post. The announcement was made this week during a keynote at the Intel AppUp Elements 2011 in Seattle, an annual gathering of developers, Peter Biddle, general manager of AppUp, said on Wednesday.
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Oracle OpenWorld's burning questions
Oracle's OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco, could be the biggest one yet for the company, which entered the hardware game last year through the purchase of Sun Microsystems and is closing in on $40 billion in revenue. But the bigger the company, the more questions it has to answer about its future directions and past promises. The tens of thousands expected at OpenWorld and its sister JavaOne conference will be in search of all the details.
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Former HP CEO Apotheker to get more than $9.6 million
Outgoing Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker will get a severance payment of $7.2 million, plus a $2.4 million performance bonus and additional stock benefits, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Apotheker was recently ousted from the top post at HP after spending just 11 months on the job. Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, has taken over. She will receive a base salary of just $1 per year, the regulatory filing shows.
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Update: Microsoft fails to credit Kelihos takedown partner
Microsoft grabbed headlines Wednesday with its report about the successful takedown of the Kelihos botnet, but while the company detailed the achievements of its Digital Crimes Unit, it failed to mention the major role security firm Kaspersky Lab played in the operation.
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Tablets, smartphones to get speed boost with new memory
A new form of mobile DDR3 memory that can speed up tablets, smartphones, and laptops could appear in devices starting as early as late next year, with adoption ramping up in 2013, analysts said on Thursday.
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PlayBook in trouble, if not dead, says analyst
Research in Motion's PlayBook looks to be in trouble, as it appears that the smartphone maker has stopped production of the tablet and is actively considering getting out of the business, says Collins Stewart semiconductor analyst John Vihn.
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