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Facebook malware scam takes hold Feb 04 2012 00:05:44	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Facebook malware scam takes hold A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
The future of hypervisors Feb 03 2012 23:14:26	InfoWorld RSS Feed
The future of hypervisors The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is that innovation is coming out of the open source products at a quicker pace. But another expert doesn't quite believe that first to market is the key to success. He says this market is too important to be downloading open source bits frequently. With that dilemma, enterprises instead turn to commercia... Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Micron CEO dies in plane crash Feb 03 2012 20:47:56	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Micron CEO dies in plane crash Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time," the company said in a statement. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ] Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's sof... Feb 03 2012 20:40:20	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Is Windows Phone really under Sinofsky? Feb 03 2012 17:38:02	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Is Windows Phone really under Sinofsky? Details about Windows Phone 8 are bustin' out all over. And while those technical details are devastating for Windows Phone 7.5 "Tango" sales, there's a bigger picture. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnera... Feb 03 2012 15:57:05	InfoWorld RSS Feed
PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-0830 and was discovered by Stefan Esser, an independent security consultant and creator of the popular Suhosin security extension for PHP. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Google won't delay new privacy policy despite E.U. conc... Feb 03 2012 15:52:24	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Google won't delay new privacy policy despite E.U. concerns Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anon... Feb 03 2012 13:10:47	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn't so anonymous Data routinely gathered in Web logs -- IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings -- can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. At the same time, analysis of such data when anonymized can help detect malicious activity and so improve overall Internet security, they add. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds Feb 03 2012 12:48:01	InfoWorld RSS Feed
H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group. The report by two economists at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, also found that, on average, H-1B workers are about 10 years younger than U.S. born workers. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with ever... Feb 03 2012 12:31:43	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. This technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
RIM offers free PlayBook to attract Android developers Feb 03 2012 12:13:48	InfoWorld RSS Feed
RIM offers free PlayBook to attract Android developers Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS. The promotion, announced on Twitter by Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president for developer relations, comes as RIM struggles to generate int Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Feb 03 2012 12:02:16	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Apple this week patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. Both Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, were updated with fixes. The two operating systems were last updated in mid-October 2011. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Google finally scans malware-ridden Android Market Feb 03 2012 11:00:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Google finally scans malware-ridden Android Market In an effort to improve security in its Android Market, Google has been using a service providing automated scanning of applications submitted to the mobile application store, Google revealed on Thursday afternoon. Code-named Bouncer, the service scans the market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience or requiring developers to submit to an application approval process, said Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice of engineering for Android, in a blog post: Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips Feb 02 2012 23:41:51	InfoWorld RSS Feed
AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips AMD has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day. AMD's new server chips code-named Abu Dhabi and due out in 2013 will have 16 cores, the same number as the existing Opteron 6200 chips code-named Interlagos that shipped last year. Servers are being redesigned to match specialty workloads and adding more cores to the Abu Dhabi chip wasn't the way to boost performance, said Lisa Su, senior vice president and g... Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Security slackers risk Internet blackout on March 8 Feb 02 2012 21:53:42	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Security slackers risk Internet blackout on March 8 Companies and home users whose computers or routers are infected by the DNSChanger Trojan risk being unable to access the Web come March 8, 2012, when the FBI unplugs the legitimate DNS servers it set up to replace the rogue DNS servers that were forwardi Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology Feb 02 2012 21:03:09	InfoWorld RSS Feed
AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology AMD will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel. The company will blur the lines between CPUs and graphics processors in future chip design cycles, with both units sharing a memory pool and running common software applications, said AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Thursday during a financial analyst conference speech that was webcast. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
VeriSign hacked several times, won't reveal the details Feb 02 2012 20:24:50	InfoWorld RSS Feed
VeriSign hacked several times, won't reveal the details In October 2011, Internet infrastructure firm VeriSign released its usual quarterly report. Buried in the 50-page filing to the SEC was the revelation that the company had been breached multiple times the previous year. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding sc... Feb 02 2012 20:08:42	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head Feb 02 2012 17:23:18	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings. The software unit will be led by John Swainson, who will assume the title of President of Software Group. He was previously senior advisor at Silver Lake, an equity firm, but also served as CEO and CA from 2005 through 2009. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Internet Explorer takes unexpected jump in market share Feb 02 2012 16:38:37	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Internet Explorer takes unexpected jump in market share Just when you thought Internet Explorer was on a years-long losing streak, about to drop below 50 percent of all browsing activity worldwide, the January figures from Net Applications showed a substantial, remarkable 1.19 percent jump in IE use in January. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Could Facebook IPO help it dominate Google? Feb 02 2012 16:06:29	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Could Facebook IPO help it dominate Google? With the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) now official, industry and financial analysts say that a huge influx of cash could enable the social networking company to topple Google from its dominant position in the online world. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed again while U.S. regula... Feb 02 2012 15:52:08	InfoWorld RSS Feed
SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed again while U.S. regulators investigate SAP's $3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday. On Wednesday SAP announced for the third time it was extending its offer for SuccessFactors, which was first made in December, while awaiting approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS). Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Is the cloud really cheaper? Feb 02 2012 14:15:08	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Is the cloud really cheaper? That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise. Finance and IT professionals, facing the need for greater computing power for everything from operational management to hedge accounting are understandably tempted by SaaS, given the cloud's relatively low startup costs and the fact they may lack the skills needed to build their own analytic solutions. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Clues about HP's Gen8 servers leaked Feb 02 2012 13:44:03	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Clues about HP's Gen8 servers leaked Hewlett-Packard has let slip some details on its website about its upcoming Proliant Gen8 servers ahead of their official launch. The pages list basic details of single- and dual-socket BL, ML and DL Gen8 servers, which will be based on Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 processors.[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ] Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
HTC Android phones can leak Wi-Fi passwords Feb 02 2012 13:18:07	InfoWorld RSS Feed
HTC Android phones can leak Wi-Fi passwords A group of HTC Android phones is susceptible to an exploit that can steal Wi-Fi credentials and passwords and send them to attackers. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Google introduces country domains on Blogger to aid con... Feb 02 2012 13:05:08	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Google introduces country domains on Blogger to aid content removal Google is directing users to localized country domains on Blogger to provide it flexibility to comply with content removal rules in various countries. The move suggests that Internet companies are coming to terms with the need to follow local rules, as they try to gain users in countries where there are concerns about pornography, and certain political and religious content. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud Feb 02 2012 12:54:08	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a wider range of form factors, the company announced Thursday. "Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 is the foundational element in our cloud strategy," said Todd Barr, Alfresco chief marketing officer. The company is preparing to offer the CMS (content management software) as SaaS (software as a service) by April or May this year. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Google Docs for Android gets offline access Feb 02 2012 12:44:18	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Google Docs for Android gets offline access Google Docs users can now get offline access to documents on their Android-based smartphones and tablets, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday. The upgraded app makes offline access possible for Google documents, presentations, spreadsheets, uploaded images, and file formats such as pdf, doc, xls, and ppt, according to Google. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release Feb 02 2012 00:56:05	InfoWorld RSS Feed
OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Facebook files for highly anticipated IPO Feb 01 2012 21:58:33	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Facebook files for highly anticipated IPO Facebook filed papers Wednesday to become a public company, revealing financial information that attests to the social network's phenomenal growth. The IPO is the most anticipated public offering in a decade, with the company looking to bring in $5 billion in investment. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Symantec recants Android malware claims Feb 01 2012 21:47:12	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Symantec recants Android malware claims Symantec has backtracked from assertions last week that 13 Android apps distributed by Google's Android Market were malicious, and now says that the code in question comes from an aggressive ad network that provides revenue to the smartphone programs. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
ARM's first 64-bit processors target servers, smartphones Feb 01 2012 20:18:05	InfoWorld RSS Feed
ARM's first 64-bit processors target servers, smartphones ARM will announce its first 64-bit processors later this year for servers and high-end smartphones, and is also taking steps to build up software support for the processor designs, said CEO Warren East earlier this week. The first 64-bit processors will be licensed to device makers and based on the ARMv8 architecture, which was announced in October. The 64-bit processors will be in volume production by 2014, after which it will reach devices, East said. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Business is booming for 'malware as a service' merchants Feb 01 2012 17:22:32	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Business is booming for 'malware as a service' merchants They are well organized. They pay close attention to product quality, working hard to make it effective and scalable. They are all about customer service, providing after-sales support. They even solicit the help of their customers in product development. All admirable qualities. But all in the service of theft. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
The new help desk: Agile, educational, efficient Feb 01 2012 17:14:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
The new help desk: Agile, educational, efficient A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. A keyboard stops working, or Outlook crashes repeatedly, and a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex issues can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without needing an outside vendor. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation Feb 01 2012 16:32:19	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced. Kroah-Hartman previously worked at Suse Linux, also as a fellow. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
VMTurbo upgrade supports all three major virtualization... Feb 01 2012 16:20:27	InfoWorld RSS Feed
VMTurbo upgrade supports all three major virtualization platforms VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool. With the new 3.0 version of Operations Manager, the software can now manage Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware's vSphere individually or in multi-hypervisor deployments, the company says. This version adds XenServer to its capabilities. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Kelihos botnet, once crippled, now regaining strength Feb 01 2012 15:45:56	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Kelihos botnet, once crippled, now regaining strength A botnet that was crippled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September is spamming once again and experts have no recourse to stop it. The Kelihos botnet only infected 45,000 or so computers but managed to send out nearly 4 billion spam messages a day, promoting, among other things, pornography, illegal pharmaceuticals, and stock scams. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays Feb 01 2012 13:08:23	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else. Nimbus's new E-Class (enterprise-class) Memory System is a fully redundant solid-state storage system that scales from 10TB to 440TB in capacity in a single file system and a single rack and costs about $10 per gigabyte. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Cisco aims Wi-Fi enterprise access point at BYOD profusion Feb 01 2012 12:57:36	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Cisco aims Wi-Fi enterprise access point at BYOD profusion Cisco Systems developed its latest enterprise access point with corporate bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies in mind, aiming to give tablets and smartphones as well as traditional workplace devices strong and consistent performance. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012 Feb 01 2012 12:45:13	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012 Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand. Shortage of drives by the end of this year is likely to be about 150 million units, it said. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing Feb 01 2012 12:27:25	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately. IDG News Service first reported the user discontent last week. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Semiconductor market to slow this year, iSuppli says Feb 01 2012 12:22:12	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Semiconductor market to slow this year, iSuppli says Semiconductor industry revenue will grow at a slow pace this year due to struggling economies worldwide, lower spending and sluggish demand for products, research firm IHS iSuppli said in a study released on Tuesday. Revenue for the semiconductor industry this year is expected to be $323 billion, growing by just 3.3 percent compared to last year's revenue, IHS iSuppli said. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Symantec drops don't-use advice, gives pcAnywhere all-c... Feb 01 2012 00:21:19	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Symantec drops don't-use advice, gives pcAnywhere all-clear Symantec has retracted its don't-use-pcAnywhere recommendation to owners of the remote access software. Last week, the company took the highly unusual step of telling pcAnywhere users to disable the program based on a 2006 source code leak and this month's claims by members of Anonymous that they were mining the stolen code for vulnerabilities. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Oracle outlines plans for RightNow integration Jan 31 2012 23:57:49	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Oracle outlines plans for RightNow integration Oracle executives on Tuesday gave a more detailed picture of their plans to integrate technologies gained through October's $1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, maker of cloud-based software for customer service through the Web, social networks, and contact centers. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support Jan 31 2012 23:39:04	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack. "Microsoft is committed to working with the community to resolve the current issues with Hyper-V and OpenStack," Microsoft said in a statement. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Which IT vendors offer the best and worst customer serv... Jan 31 2012 22:07:24	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Which IT vendors offer the best and worst customer service? Tech vendors looking to bounce back from the recession might consider investing a few more dollars in improving customer service. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
German appeals court upholds injunction against Samsung... Jan 31 2012 19:53:28	InfoWorld RSS Feed
German appeals court upholds injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab A German appeals court today upheld an injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet today, ruling that the device infringes upon Apple's intellectual property. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Infor revamps support services, heightens competition a... Jan 31 2012 18:50:18	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Infor revamps support services, heightens competition against SAP, Oracle Infor has rebranded and revamped its software support offerings in a bid to cement its profile as a potential alternative to rivals like SAP and Oracle. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
SeaMicro puts 256 Xeon cores in server Jan 31 2012 18:27:28	InfoWorld RSS Feed
SeaMicro puts 256 Xeon cores in server SeaMicro on Tuesday announced a microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search. The SM10000-XE server is a 10U rack server with 64 quad-core Intel E3-1260L processors that run at a clock speed of 2.4GHz. The server is designed to provide faster response to Internet queries by speeding dynamic Web applications and tasks such as extraction of information from databases. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
When ERP is botched, CFOs must act Jan 31 2012 17:48:31	InfoWorld RSS Feed
When ERP is botched, CFOs must act Companies long have grappled with glitches in their ERP (enterprise resource planning) system implementations -- a situation that the recent botched-rollout record suggests won't get better any time soon. While ERP projects go awry for many reasons, each incident reveals its own set of troublesome repercussions, financial and otherwise. IT, of course, is the first to get the call for repairs. But the CFO is rarely far behind. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Apple forcing IT shops to 'adapt or die' Jan 31 2012 17:09:09	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Apple forcing IT shops to 'adapt or die' Many IT departments are struggling with Apple's "take it or leave it" attitude, based on discussions last week at MacIT, which is Macworld|iWorld's companion conference for IT professionals. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
13 Windows 8 features worth knowing about Jan 31 2012 16:09:53	InfoWorld RSS Feed
13 Windows 8 features worth knowing about Upgrades, system migration, support headaches -- IT folks are probably dreading the next major Windows rollout. Yet Windows 8, which is scheduled to move to the beta stage in late February and will likely launch in the fall, does offer several compelling new features for both IT and end users. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS... Jan 31 2012 15:30:40	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS rootkit Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web security firm Websense. It's not clear how the websites are being compromised, but there are publicly known exploits for vulnerabilities that affect WordPress 3.2.1, which is an older version of the popular blog publishing platform. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Update: IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform Jan 31 2012 15:03:34	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Update: IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed. Worklight, which is based in Israel, had already partnered with IBM. Its technologies include Worklight Studio, an Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment) and Worklight Server, described on the company's website as a "secure and scalable gateway betwee... Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Git gets equipped for the enterprise Jan 31 2012 14:07:21	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Git gets equipped for the enterprise Developer tool provider AccuRev will release a package designed to help enterprises incorporate the increasingly popular Git open source version-control software into their development operations, the company announced Tuesday. "We're seeing tremendous excitement in our customer base over Git," said Cliff Utstein, AccuRev's vice president of marketing. "That said, Git does have some challenges in the enterprise, around things like security, compliance and scalability." Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds Jan 31 2012 13:53:37	InfoWorld RSS Feed
HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds Hewlett-Packard has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT assets in the cloud. "When clients begin their journey to a hybrid cloud environment, we can help them," said Jimmy Augustine, a group marketing manager in HP's software division. The new cloud capabilities "give folks the required visibility they need to continue managing IT as a business." Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Apple appeals iPad trademark decision in China Jan 31 2012 12:24:48	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Apple appeals iPad trademark decision in China Apple has appealed a Chinese court ruling last December that rejected its ownership of the iPad trademark in the country, and could expose the company to trademark infringement lawsuits from a local company. The maker of the iconic iPad filed the appeal on Jan. 5 with the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province, according to a statement from Proview International, a little known Chinese display monitor company that claims control over the iPad trademark in mainland China. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case Jan 31 2012 12:21:59	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard. "The alleged fraud did not prevent Oracle from participating in the negotiations or deprive Oracle of the opportunity to negotiate," Judge James P. Kleinberg of the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County said in a 21-page ruling on Monday. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Cyber security report: All countries lag behind the bad... Jan 31 2012 12:11:57	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Cyber security report: All countries lag behind the bad guys The U.S. and U.K. are relatively well prepared for cyber attacks, compared to many other developed nations, but everyone has more work to do, according to a new cyber security study from McAfee and Security & Defence Agenda (SDA). Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service Jan 31 2012 11:00:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service Salesforce.com today unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which is based on Salesforce.com's recent acquisition of Assistly, can be deployed Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Mobile, cloud, and big data pros in high demand for 2012 Jan 31 2012 11:00:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Mobile, cloud, and big data pros in high demand for 2012 Recession-fueled stagnation is slowly drawing to an end as U.S. companies are signaling they're ready to sink some cash into growth and emerging markets. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Are Google and Apple really monopolies? Jan 31 2012 11:00:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Are Google and Apple really monopolies? You hear the word "monopoly" thrown around a lot these days, especially about Google and Apple. After Google's bid to acquire Motorola, the integration of Google+ signals in Google Search, and the announcement of Google's consolidation of privacy policies and data gathering across Google services, critics have been saying Google has a monopoly in the search market. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Google helps translate JavaScript to its Dart alternative Jan 30 2012 21:34:50	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Google helps translate JavaScript to its Dart alternative Promoting its own alternative language to JavaScript, Google is working to bridge JavaScript to Google Dart, with the release Monday of a mapping application that the company is calling its JavaScript to Dart Synonym app. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Even the best patching programs probably miss this Jan 30 2012 20:46:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Even the best patching programs probably miss this We like to think our data center configuration and patch management practices are pretty businesslike and solid, right? Well, in at least one very important aspect, almost all of us are essentially asleep at the wheel, folks. Sure, most data centers have honed their patch management over the years. Most actually do a pretty good job at getting operating system and application server patches deployed in a timely manner. The majority even have an emergency process for getting critical patches inst... Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Intel's new Core i5 chip qualifies for protection plan Jan 30 2012 20:24:56	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Intel's new Core i5 chip qualifies for protection plan Intel has rolled out a handful of new Core i5 desktop processors, including one that raises the clock speed and qualifies for a new protection plan under which CPUs can be replaced. The quad-core Core i5-2550K runs at a clock speed of 3.4GHz and is based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. The fastest clock speed in the Core i5 desktop processor line was previously provided by the Core i5-2500K chip, which ran at 3.3GHz. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Microsoft partner says Office 365 app dev model to expand Jan 30 2012 18:49:18	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Microsoft partner says Office 365 app dev model to expand External developers will be able to build much more sophisticated applications and tools for Office 365 once Microsoft releases the next upgrade of that cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite, according to a Microsoft partner. NewsGator, a company that makes enterprise social software primarily for SharePoint, finds Office 365's current application development platform limited, but is looking forward to its expansion. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Feds say Megaupload user content could be deleted this ... Jan 30 2012 18:33:38	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Feds say Megaupload user content could be deleted this week Federal prosecutors say that two companies hosting Megaupload's servers in the U.S. could begin deleting all user content on them as early as Thursday. But one of the companies today denied it had access to any data on Megaupload's servers and said it has no mechanism for returning data to Megaupload's users. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Windows 8 on ARM: Not so vaporous after all? Jan 30 2012 17:26:06	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Windows 8 on ARM: Not so vaporous after all? Last week, I suggested that the lack of even demo units of Windows 8-based ARM tablets meant that we may not see any ARM tablets, at least not when Window Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under... Jan 30 2012 14:23:53	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under Apache 2.0 BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to big data in the 4.3 release of its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.0 license, the company announced Monday. While Kettle had always been available in a community edition at no charge, the tools being open sourced were previously only available in the company's commercialized edition. They include integrations for Hadoop's file system and MapReduce as well as connectors to NoSQL data... Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Update: Industry group pushes new spec to eliminate phi... Jan 30 2012 14:02:06	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Update: Industry group pushes new spec to eliminate phishing Companies such as Facebook, Google, and PayPal are pushing for widespread use of a new technical specification, DMARC, that could make it harder for phishers to reach their victims. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
McAfee Mobile 2.0 moves beyond virus protection Jan 30 2012 13:51:40	InfoWorld RSS Feed
McAfee Mobile 2.0 moves beyond virus protection Intel-owned McAfee has released Mobile Security 2.0, which allows users of Android-based smartphones and tablets to keep better track of what applications are up to, the company said on Monday. Today, many of Android's perceived security weaknesses stem from the openness of Android Market, and the availability of rogue applications. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Firefox 10 to launch Tuesday Jan 30 2012 12:58:49	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Firefox 10 to launch Tuesday Mozilla developers have given the green light to ship Firefox 10 on Tuesday. Notes from a Mozilla meeting last week said that the upgrade was on for Jan. 31, the next ship date in the every-six-week schedule that the company adopted last year. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Tilera targets Intel, ARM with 36-core server chip Jan 30 2012 12:34:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Tilera targets Intel, ARM with 36-core server chip Tilera on Monday announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from Intel in performance-per-watt. The Tile-GX36 is designed for use in servers that handle large volumes of Internet transactions, the company said. The processor helps reduce power and cooling costs in data centers while swiftly executing social media, search and multimedia streaming transactions. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Dig deep into Lion: The best overlooked, underrated fea... Jan 28 2012 11:00:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Dig deep into Lion: The best overlooked, underrated features Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing, and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
FBI seeks Big Brother-'Minority Report' hybrid Jan 27 2012 23:42:47	InfoWorld RSS Feed
FBI seeks Big Brother-'Minority Report' hybrid Recognizing just how powerful a tool social-networking sites have become in orchestrating protests, rallies, and riots in the United States and beyond, the FBI is in the early stages of designing a complex system for monitoring tweets, Facebook status Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be in... Jan 27 2012 22:00:40	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
As HP ejects WebOS, its creator departs HP Jan 27 2012 21:34:27	InfoWorld RSS Feed
As HP ejects WebOS, its creator departs HP Jon Rubinstein, the force behind the WebOS mobile operating system, has quit Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since the company's acquisition of Palm in 2010. "Jon has fulfilled his commitment to HP. We wish him well," HP said in a statement. Rubinstein joined Palm in 2007 as chairman and became CEO in 2009 after a long stint at Apple, where he was part of the group that developed the iPod. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Cisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' d... Jan 27 2012 21:28:43	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Cisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' design, interfaces Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud Jan 27 2012 20:26:02	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure. One Facebook survey scam recently analyzed by F-Secure uses malicious browser extensions to hijack Facebook accounts and post spam messages on their walls. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerabilit... Jan 27 2012 17:36:16	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player. "Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly) disclosed vulnerability, the MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0003)," Trend Micro threat response engineer Roland Dela Paz said in a blog post on Thursday. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
How to prevent thumb drive security disasters Jan 27 2012 16:47:15	InfoWorld RSS Feed
How to prevent thumb drive security disasters For such a small device, the plastic, handheld USB flash drive can cause big security headaches. Even if you have robust end-point security and establish rigid policies about employee use of these drives, employees still find a way to copy financial reports and business plans for use at home. While other security breaches are more traceable, a flash drive is more difficult to monitor, especially after the employee leaves work. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
IT groups grapple with managing fast-growing iOS devices Jan 27 2012 16:34:23	InfoWorld RSS Feed
IT groups grapple with managing fast-growing iOS devices Apple recently has improved its mobile device management features, but IT groups are discovering a new set of challenges when they start to move to larger numbers of iOS devices, MacIT conference attendees are confirming this week. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
CloudPassage launches new security product for public c... Jan 27 2012 16:10:42	InfoWorld RSS Feed
CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time Jan 27 2012 13:36:01	InfoWorld RSS Feed
15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time In honor of National Data Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we've put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time. These high-profile privacy scandals involve many underlying technologies, from search to social media, email to voice mail, mobile phones to Webcams to GPS. But at the heart of all of these privacy scandals are companies collecting personal data without the user's knowledge or consent and then either sharing it with third parties or simply failing to keep... Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Windows 8 Metro: Now with mouse support Jan 27 2012 13:06:48	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Windows 8 Metro: Now with mouse support If you've been running the Windows 8 Developer Preview on a touchless PC, you know just how much fun it is to mimic simple touch gestures with a mouse. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Why big data means a big year for Hadoop Jan 27 2012 12:45:43	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Why big data means a big year for Hadoop You can't have a conversation in today's business technology world without touching on the topic of big data. Simply put, it's about data sets so large-in volume, velocity and variety-that they're impossible to manage with conventional database tools. In 2011, our global output of data was estimated at 1.8 zettabytes (each zettabyte equals 1 billion terabytes). Even more staggering is the widely quoted estimate that 90 percent of the data in the world was created within the past two years. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Samsung loses again in German patent suit against Apple Jan 27 2012 12:38:01	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Samsung loses again in German patent suit against Apple The district court in Mannheim, Germany, has again sided with Apple in a patent suit brought by Samsung Electronics, saying on Friday that the company had not infringed on a second patent asserted by Samsung against the iPhone and iPad. Last week the court decided that Apple hadn't infringed on the first in a series of mobile patents Samsung has said Apple is using without paying royalties. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries Jan 27 2012 12:33:39	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries Twitter can now remove tweets from users' feeds in specific countries while keeping them visible elsewhere, according to a post on the company's blog on Thursday. The San Francisco-based microblogging giant said it made the change in an effort to comply with local limits on expression in some foreign countries. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Will Silverlight live or die? Microsoft won't say Jan 27 2012 11:00:00	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Will Silverlight live or die? Microsoft won't say Being a Silverlight developer these days is like being a fan of the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team made famous in the Oscar-nominated film "Moneyball." Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics Jan 26 2012 23:26:56	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution. Linux Mint 13 will feature an entirely new user interface, called Cinnamon. Earlier this week, the Linux Mint developers released a version of the shell. Previous editions of Linux Mint used a standard version of the Gnome environment. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Forrester: Apple breaks Microsoft's lock on enterprise ... Jan 26 2012 22:08:27	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Forrester: Apple breaks Microsoft's lock on enterprise workers The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today. The result: An end to Microsoft's long-running monopoly in the enterprise. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
How does Google's new privacy policy compare? Jan 26 2012 20:40:28	InfoWorld RSS Feed
How does Google's new privacy policy compare? Some politicians, privacy advocates, and pundits have been stirred into a frenzy in the wake of Google's newly announced overarching privacy policy. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Oracle proposal would create single committee to overse... Jan 26 2012 20:11:45	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME. Java SE and EE concern desktop and server environments while ME is for mobile and embedded uses of Java. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
SOPA's big brother signed by E.U. nations amid widespre... Jan 26 2012 17:57:40	InfoWorld RSS Feed
SOPA's big brother signed by E.U. nations amid widespread protests The European Union signed up to the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Thursday despite widespread opposition, particularly in Poland, where people took to the streets in protest. The agreement was officially signed in Tokyo by 22 European member states. Cyprus, Estonia, Slovakia, Germany, and the Netherlands did not sign, but committed to do so in the near future, according to the European Parliament's Green party. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Say goodbye to Fast Ethernet Jan 26 2012 16:18:10	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Say goodbye to Fast Ethernet The Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch market is forecast to approach $28 billion in 2016, with future growth driven primarily by sales of Ethernet switches optimized for larger data center deployments.   Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull p... Jan 26 2012 13:54:13	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug Symantec this week took the highly unusual step of telling users of its pcAnywhere remote access software to disable or uninstall the software while it fixes an unknown number of bugs. Security experts said the move was unprecedented for a company of Symantec's size. [ Find out how to block the viruses, worms, and other malware that threaten your business, with hands-on advice from InfoWorld's expert contributors in InfoWorld's "Malware Deep Dive" PDF guide. ] Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Google stirs up privacy hornet's nest Jan 26 2012 12:59:23	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Google stirs up privacy hornet's nest Google has whipped up a privacy brouhaha with a blog post announcing that the company is rewriting its privacy policy, consolidating user information across its services. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Android's tablet shipments triple, says study Jan 26 2012 12:11:13	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Android's tablet shipments triple, says study Sales of Android-based tablets to retailers more than tripled during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet shipments reached 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 150 percent increase from 10.7 million during the same period in 2010. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Android's tablet share at 39% as sales triple, says study Jan 26 2012 12:11:13	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Android's tablet share at 39% as sales triple, says study Sales of Android-based tablets more than tripled during the fourth quarter of 2011. But Apple still dominates, even as its market share dropped, according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet shipments reached 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 150 percent increase from 10.7 million during the same period in 2010. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »
Android's tablet share at 39 percent as shipments tripl... Jan 26 2012 12:11:13	InfoWorld RSS Feed
Android's tablet share at 39 percent as shipments triple, says study Sales of Android-based tablets more than tripled during the fourth quarter of 2011. But Apple still dominates, even as its market share dropped, according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet shipments (to stores, not necessarily to customers) reached 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 150 percent increase from 10.7 million during the same period in 2010. Read the full article on InfoWorld RSS Feed »

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