Archive for June, 2010
IPhone Gyroscope To Rev Up Location Apps (Elizabeth Woyke/Forbes)
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:IPhone Gyroscope To Rev Up Location Apps — Developers say the iPhone’s new gyroscope will boost navigation and augmented reality applications. — For developers who work with location data, the iPhone 4′s most exciting feature is one of its most hidden: the gyroscope.
Oracle’s net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr (Jordan Robertson/Associated Press)
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:Oracle’s net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr — SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oracle Corp.’s net income jumped 25 percent in the most recent quarter as CEO Larry Ellison trumpeted momentum in the company’s efforts to sell computer hardware and in its showdown with IBM Corp.
Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can’t meet, Red Hat CEO says (Jon Brodkin/Computerworld)
Jon Brodkin / Computerworld:Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can’t meet, Red Hat CEO says — Red Hat CEO says CIOs are “under siege” by user expectations. — As chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst spends much of his time traveling the world and talking to CIOs, and he constantly hears one thing: that they [...]
Government, Congress eye greater power in cyber attacks – SecurityInfoWatch
The government may have to take “extraordinary measures” in responding to a cyber attack that affects critical public or privately-run computer networks, a senior Homeland Security official said. National Cyber Security …
Why Amazon Should Give Away Kindle Free (Dennis Kneale/CNBC)
Dennis Kneale / CNBC:Why Amazon Should Give Away Kindle Free — From the moment the splashy elegance of the iPad first adorned the de rigueur giant video wall behind the Orwellian figure of Steve Jobs a few months ago, you just knew the Kindle was dead. — You can see it regularly on that most [...]
Symantec Announces June 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report FIFA World Cup-Related … – PR Inside
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwire) — 06/22/10 — Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the publication of its June 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Analysis reveals that the percentage of spam related to …
Humans may also be infected with PC viruses – Zd Net Asia.com
New research that points to the ability of a chip implanted in a human body to infect and be infected by other systems and devices, may potentially have serious implications for implanted medical devices, which are …
Security software often misses new malware: Lab – it World Canada
LONDON – New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet. Security software from major vendors can take an average of two days to block a Web site designed to attack a computer …
The E-Reader Price War: What Will Consumers Do? (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/Digits)
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:The E-Reader Price War: What Will Consumers Do? — Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader to $189 on Monday, just hours after Barnes & Noble dropped the price of the Nook to $199 and added a Wi-Fi-only model for $149. But are those prices low enough for the devices to [...]
Microsoft introduces Internet Fraud Alert system – New Statesman
Microsoft has teamed up with the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), with the support of Accuity, the American Bankers Association, Anti-Phishing Working Group, Citizens Bank, eBay, Federal Trade …
