Monthly Archives: May 2011
Space Adventures Plans Modified Soyuz Spacecraft for Commercial Flights
As NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first American into space this week, another organization is looking ahead to the...
BlackBerry Bing Deal, Windows Phone Security Marked Microsoft’s Week
Microsoft's week was all about mobile: patches, alliances and snafus.On May 3, the company issued its first-ever security advisory for Windows Phone 7, related...
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Likely Had Rocky Sales Start
Microsoft refuses to break out exact numbers for how many Windows Phone 7 devices have sold to consumers.This was somewhat understandable in the first...
Osama Bin Laden, Mac Malware, Sony Lead Week’s Security News
The news that a United States Navy SEAL operation had killed Osama bin Laden in a fortified luxury home in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May...
Facebook Threatens Google by Capturing 31% of Display Ads
Facebook racked up 346 billion display ad impressions for the first quarter this year, blowing away the field with 31.2 percent of the 1.1...
Google, Apple Keep Gobbling Smartphone Share from RIM: comScore
Google's Android smartphone share rose to 34.7 percent in March, up from 33 percent in February, according to new comScore mobile subscriber stats released...
Sophos Acquires Astaro to Add UTM to Network Security Portfolio
British security firm Sophos has acquired unified threat management provider Astaro to round out its networking security portfolio.Financial terms of the deal were not...
Cloud Service Providers Say Data Security ‘Not My Job’: Study
The biggest complaint in the wake of recent data breaches, whether it's Sony or Epsilon, has centered on the lack of security controls in...
FTC Settles with Ceridian, Lookout over Data Breach, Weak Web Security
The Federal Trade Commission settled with Ceridian and Lookout Services over charges that the companies failed to put sufficient security measures in place to...
RIM BlackBerry Revival Starts with Partners, QNX, Restructuring
It hasn't been the best couple weeks for Research In Motion.Despite hints of respectable sales numbers for its newly released PlayBook tablet, the company...