'Mango' update progressing, but Samsung owners have to wait
Microsoft has invited 50 percent of eligible Windows Phone users to update to version 7.5, also known as "Mango," Microsoft's Eric Hautala said in a blog post on Monday.
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2012 IT budgets, salaries on the rise, survey says
IT budgets, salaries and staff turnover rates have returned to pre-recessionary levels, according to a new survey conducted by the Society of Information Management (SIM) that indicates increasing optimism among CIOs and IT executives nationwide. IT executives say their departments are better positioned then ever to meet the needs of their organizations, whether that is by reducing business expenses through automation or by bringing new services quickly to market.
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IBM buys security intelligence company Q1 Labs
In a move to fortify a newly created division devoted to security systems, IBM is acquiring Q1 Labs, the company announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based in Waltham, Mass., Q1 Labs vends security intelligence and event monitoring software. The company's software will provide a platform for the new IBM Security Systems division. Brendan Hannigan, now CEO of Q1, will head this division.
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Time to defib healthcare security
While some industries have struggled during the hard economic times of the past few years, healthcare has thrived and continues to grow.
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Red Hat buys cloud storage vendor Gluster
Red Hat is acquiring privately owned storage vendor Gluster for approximately $136 million in cash to boost its cloud offerings, it said on Tuesday. The combination of cloud computing and the explosion of unstructured data are forcing enterprises to find new ways to handle storage demands, and the acquisition of Gluster will allow Red Hat to address these challenges, according to Red Hat.
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Oracle releases JavaFX 2.0, shares plans for Java 9
Oracle kicked off the JavaOne conference yesterday by shedding light on upcoming editions of Java and unveiling JavaFX 2.0, a new release of Oracle's platform for building rich client applications. The Java upgrades -- Java 8 and Java 9 -- promise improved support for multicore processing and big data, while JavaFX 2.0 tightens the focus on enterprise Java developers and data-driven business applications.
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Symantec makes cloud-based security service available for corporate trials
Symantec today said its new cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) service called O3 is available to enterprise customers to test.
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Google+ rides momentum up social net ranks
Just weeks after opening up membership to Google+, visits to the new social network are booming. Industry analysts say the trick will be whether Google+ can maintain the momentum that has taken its new social network to a spot in the top 10 ranking in just a matter of weeks.
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Webroot moves to cloud-based malware detection
Webroot has revamped its antivirus product line, moving to a cloud-based system that it says is better suited to detect the deluge of malicious software circulating on the Internet. On Tuesday, Webroot launched SecureAnywhere, a security suite that draws technology from Prevx, a U.K. security company it acquired in November 2010.
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Oracle does about-face on NoSQL
Oracle's introduction of its Big Data Appliance at the OpenWorld conference here this week is an indication of the attention it is being forced to pay to NoSQL database technology. Oracle's appliance is based on Apache Hadoop software, a new Oracle NoSQL database, and an open source distribution of R, a programming language for statistical analysis.
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Two-thirds of firms send jobs offshore, survey shows
Offshoring has become so engrained in IT processes that 65 percent of businesses now do it for some aspect of their business, according to an annual survey of IT budgets and technology trends by the Society of Information Management (SIM). This survey, which is based on data collected from CIOs and senior IT leaders at 275 companies, found that nearly a quarter of the companies using offshore services did so to run existing systems applications. And another 20 percent said they used offshore services to manage their infrastructure.
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When it comes to Microsoft stock, it's good to be Steve
Microsoft's annual proxy statement arrived on Monday, and most of it's a snooze.
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Protect iPad data without hobbling users
Concerned about sensitive corporate data that lives on employees' iPads finding their way to places they shouldn't? Symantec says it has an answer to that risk, and it won't get in users' way. In early 2012, it plans to deliver an extension to its data loss prevention (DLP) product that enables DLP filtering from the iPad or, more precisely, from files, emails, and any other communication sent via HTTP and HTTPS from an iPad through the network.
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