Customers seek details on Dell's direction under private ownership
Dell's decision to go private has led to mixed reaction from the company's customers, who are watching developments closely as they consider the next steps in their product procurement plans. Some of Dell's customers think privatization is a good idea, while others are waiting for more details surrounding the company's direction under new ownership. Some customers also have questions about the fate of PC operations as the company chases high-margin enterprise products, and about the impact of the deal on service and support.
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Java retakes the lead in language popularity Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, Read More ...
Oracle to release yet more patches for Java Oracle isn't done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive Feb. 19, according to a company blog post. On Feb. 1, Oracle pulled the trigger early on the February release, which had originally been scheduled for Feb. 19, due to a serious vulnerability that affected Java at the browser level. Read More ...
Adobe blames naïve Office users for latest Flash Player exploits In sync with the release of critical security updates to Flash Player, Adobe's security team has revealed that the forthcoming vers Read More ...
Hapless Vista turns 6, shuffles toward obscurity Six years after its long-delayed but well-publicized release, Windows Vista now accounts for less than 6 percent of all Windows machines, a metrics company said earlier this month. According to Net Applications, Vista's usage share of all Windows PCs in January was 5.7 percent. That's less than a third of the share Vista enjoyed at its peak in the fall of 2009 -- about the time its successor debuted -- when it had a 20.3 percent share of all Windows machines. Read More ...
Critical vulnerability in cURL library could affect large number of applications A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large number of applications and systems to remote code execution attacks. CURL is a cross-platform command line tool and library for transferring data using URL (uniform resource locator) syntax. It supports a wide range of protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet, and TFTP. Read More ...
Six good reasons to download LibreOffice 4.0 It's been just a few weeks since the first LibreOffice 4.0 release candidate made its debut, but on Thursday the Document Foundation officially launched the final version of the free and open source office productivity suite. Read More ...
Toshiba ships first NAND flash chips with faster transfer standard Toshiba has started shipping the first NAND flash chips to support Universal Flash Storage, a new standard that is 50 percent faster than current technology. The company said Friday that it began shipping samples in January of a 64GB chip that supports the UFS standard, allowing transfer speeds of up to 300MB per second. The latest version of the current eMMC (embedded MultiMediaCard) standard supports speeds of up to 200MB per second. Read More ...
Banking malware returns to basics to evade detection Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan programs used by cyber criminals today are capable of tampering in real time with online banking sessions initiated by victims on their computers. This includes the ability to execute fraudulent transactions in the background and hide them from the user by modifying the account balance and transaction history display in their browser. Read More ...
IBM eyes mobile, social workloads for mainframe platform The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded predictions that it would go the way of the dodo, partly because IBM keeps adding capabilities to modernize it and widen its appeal. But it's still a costly system for which IBM needs to justify customers' continued investment. Read More ...
Adobe releases emergency Flash fixes for two zero-day bugs Adobe on Thursday updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash's first of the year and the first since Adobe moved the media software to a regular update schedule last fall. Read More ...
Facebook error that hijacks thousands of websites isn't just an 'inconvenience' Thousands of major -- and not-so-major -- websites found their traffic redirected to a Facebook error page yesterday, a phenomenon that lasted upward of an hour, according to varying accounts. Read More ...
Windows 8 PCs languish in a world of hurt Quick, does anyone have a Windows 8 success story they'd like to share? Because right about now Microsoft and the companies that make Windows PCs could use some good news. Read More ...
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