Monthly Archives: December 2011
Google-Branded Tablet Design: 10 Features It Must Have
Tablets are all the rage. Consumers around the globe are flocking to stores to buy products like the Apple iPad or the Amazon Kindle...
Windows Phone 7 Crisis: 10 Ways Microsoft Can Fix It
Windows Phone 7 is in a state of crisis. At last tally, the operating system owned just 1.5 percent of the market, and its...
LG Offers Details on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade
Mobile phone manufacturer LG will be offering the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system upgrade for a range of LG smartphones that were introduced this...
Windows Phone 7 Trumps Apple, Android: Ex-Microsoft Exec
It's the smartphone market, stupid. That's the point of view from one Windows Phone 7 evangelist and former Microsoft employee, who wrote a long...
HP Closes Firmware Flaw, Says No Reports of Exploits
Just before Christmas, Hewlett-Packard released a firmware update on its Website for some of its HP LaserJet printers to mitigate an issue in how...
Software Security Still More Art than Science, Says Veracode
It's the time of the season where I clear my desk of press releases and whitepapers to make room for the year to come....
Google Tablet in Six Months: Schmidt
As the tablet market continues to expand, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt let slip to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera that the...
Targeted Attacks, Hacktivism, Mobile Malware Major 2011 Security Trends
2011 was a momentous year in many aspects for the security industry, with high profile cyber-attacks and data breaches, but also a year in...
Oracle Suffers USPTO Java Patent Rejection in Google Android Case
Google gained some new ground in its patent battle with Oracle as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final rejection of one...
OpenLogic Brings Open-Source PaaS to Rackspace
Open-source cloud services provider OpenLogic announced Dec. 27 it has joined the Cloud Tools program with Rackspace Hosting, enabling CloudSwing to be deployed on...