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The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information websites collect about them and a right to see what data is being collected, officials there said.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 5:02 am
Apple, Google and other mobile platform providers will present privacy policies for all the apps offered in their stores as part of an agreement with the state of California.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 1:29 am
Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become "too complex and too slow," President and CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, offering a three-part turnaround plan to get the ailing company back on track.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 1:16 am
The second of three sets of rules established by the federal government for attaining 'meaningful use' of electronic medical records by healthcare facilities is expected to be published online Thursday.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 10:33 pm
Hewlett-Packard's profit dipped sharply in the first quarter as consumers slowed spending on its PCs and printers, HP announced Wednesday.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 10:08 pm
Apple has bought a vast sprawl of land in Prineville, Oregon, where it will open a data center, the company said on Wednesday.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:23 pm
Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google's Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:21 pm
Google has expanded the functionality of its Docs word processing application on Android devices while simultaneously improving the Docs presentation application for desktop browsers.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:18 pm
U.S. government officials have asked a New York judge to extend an impending deadline that could sever ties to the Internet for hundreds of thousands of users infected with the "DNS Changer" malware.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:08 pm
Oracle is alleging that two companies violated its intellectual property as part of a "gray market" conspiracy to provide support for Oracle's Sun Solaris OS and hardware, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:02 pm
U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyberattacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 8:43 pm
When online marketing firm Hubspot started in 2006, the company's IT needs were not very taxing, but they expanded quickly as the company realized success.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 8:38 pm
An organization that represents CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders is protesting government plans to delay a deadline requiring a new medical coding system.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 8:09 pm
Amazon's newest offering, announced Wednesday, is designed to ease application development and automate business processes.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 7:23 pm
Prices of DDR3 DRAM memory used in laptops and desktops have dipped to an all-time low of around $1, and will continue to fall, which could help PC makers pack more memory into computers, analysts said.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 6:45 pm
Verizon's 4G LTE network has been knocked offline again just two months after its last serious outage.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 6:29 pm
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for alleged abuse of essential patents.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 6:12 pm
The United States is the fourth friendliest country in the world for global cloud interoperability, according to a new study from the Business Software Alliance. But, the organization said a "patchwork" of laws and regulations around the world is holding back cloud adoption internationally.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 5:33 pm
As many as 200,000 systems connected to the Internet could be hijacked by hackers exploiting bugs in Symantec's pcAnywhere, including up to 5,000 point-of-sale programs that collect credit card data, a researcher said today.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 5:27 pm
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Google's new Android-based goggles will be priced between $250 and $600, and include a 3G or 4G data connection along with motion and GPS sensors.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 5:21 pm
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission must block Verizon Wireless from buying wireless spectrum from cable providers because two proposed deals would concentrate too much spectrum in the hands of one company, a coalition of advocacy groups said.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 4:11 pm
The Business Software Alliance surveyed 24 countries that comprise lion's share of global information and communication technologies market to identify the most cloud-friendly policy environments. Where does the U.S. rank?
Posted: February 22, 2012, 3:59 pm
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an October privacy settlement with the agency, privacy group the Center for Digital Democracy said in a complaint filed Wednesday.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 3:53 pm
SMART Storage today announced an MLC-based SAS SSD that it says approaches the resiliency and performance of an SLC NAND flash drive that it said is suitable for top tier enterprise use.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 3:34 pm
With the beta of Windows Server 8 to be released in the next few weeks, Microsoft executives said the next-generation OS is focused squarely on storage.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 11:04 am
Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will have the U.K. version of English as a display language option, to address customers in that country, and some other countries like South Africa, India, Ireland, and Australia that use the version of the language.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 6:36 am
The Wi-Fi Alliance will launch a program to simplify the use of Wi-Fi hotspots in July, making it easier for both users and mobile operators to get off strained cellular networks.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 1:14 am
Dell's fourth-quarter earnings were weighed down by weak consumer PC sales and by pricing and supply issues caused by the floods in Thailand, Dell said on Tuesday.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 12:55 am
Growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of Apache Hadoop.
Posted: February 22, 2012, 12:44 am
Got problems with insider threats? Need help securing your wireless LAN because of employees bringing their own devices on to your network? Know how to protect your Android device?
Posted: February 21, 2012, 11:42 pm
Just months after Twitter and Google failed to reach an agreement for Realtime Search, the microblogging site has inked a deal with Russian search engine firm Yandex.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 9:31 pm
Renewed rumors that Microsoft will publish iPad editions of some of its Office applications surfaced today, with one analyst calling the move a tough decision.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 9:22 pm
Oracle has given customers running version 12.0 of its E-Business Suite software a reprieve from extended support fees, which would have kicked in this month, increasing the maintenance payments they were already making.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 9:02 pm
Intel is exploring whether it can branch out as a foundry by opening its chip manufacturing facilities to more third-party customers, the company said on Tuesday.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 8:44 pm
After watching customers continually download and install one of the vendor's free, limited products from the company website, Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley was interested to see how they would respond to the same access to its more advanced products.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 8:31 pm
Google has countered Microsoft's contention that it's skirting Internet Explorer's privacy protection, saying it's 'impractical' to comply with IE's rules.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 7:34 pm
IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are the obvious as-a-service offerings, but there are plenty of others. In fact, just about every letter of the alphabet has an "as a service."
Posted: February 21, 2012, 6:34 pm
Canonical has unveiled software that will give Android smartphones the ability to run full desktop computer sessions on computer monitors and television sets.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 6:29 pm
Microsoft will extend SkyDrive from being an online file storage service into what the company calls "a device cloud" that is closely integrated with Windows 8, the next version of the company's OS.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 5:36 pm
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has celebrated the 17th anniversary of the release of the Apache HTTP Server by launching a new version of the popular open source Web server software.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 4:39 pm
New software from Aruba Networks lets IT groups secure and manage the influx of employee-owned devices to the corporate network.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 4:24 pm
ForeScout Technologies has launched ForeScout Mobile, which comes in the shape of plug-in modules for Android and iOS and allows enterprises to keep control as a plethora of devices access corporate resources, the company said on Tuesday.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 4:23 pm
There's nothing coincidental about the way grocery stores display and price their merchandise. Focus groups used to be the go-to resource for such market research, but today manufacturers like beverage behemoth PepsiCo find virtual simulation technology to be the cheaper, faster option.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 3:54 pm
Delta Global Services has successfully deployed 2D barcode scanning wireless handhelds from Intermec to its wheelchair assistance agents at the Memphis International Airport.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 2:13 pm
A team of researchers has devised a method to defeat NuCaptcha, one of the most popular video-based antispam tests on the Internet, and have proposed a solution to increase its resilience to attacks.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 2:03 pm
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has proposed privatizing business-to-business platform Alibaba.com as the site faces slower revenue growth brought on by a shift to focus on long-term gains.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 2:01 pm
Ericsson has entered into an agreement to buy privately held Canadian Wi-Fi company BelAir Networks, as operators get increasingly interested in using Wi-Fi to offload their networks.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 1:48 pm
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have announced new mid- and low-end Android-based smartphones. Samsung hopes to attract users with a dual-core processor, while LG is putting Android 4.0 on some of its new phones from day one.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 1:11 pm
The European Commission plans to double its investment in the push for exascale computing, even as European governments impose austerity measures elsewhere.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 10:42 am
Antenna Software today unveiled cloud-based software called AMPchroma for designing, testing and managing mobile apps and mobile websites.
Posted: February 21, 2012, 5:02 am