Monthly Archives: February 2012
Smartphone Sales Beat PCs for First Time Ever: Canalys
Smartphone sales surpassed those of PCs for the first time ever, during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to research firm Canalys. What's more,...
Google Wallet Works on Galaxy Phones With AT&T SIM Card
One of the big knocks on Google Wallet, the company's smartphone-based mobile-payment service, is that it's only been available on one phone to date--the...
BlackBerry 10 Is a Double Down Bet for RIM: Analyst
Research In Motion will dump its BlackBerry OS licensing plans and double down on the upcoming BlackBerry 10s ability to battle toe-to-toe against Apples...
Windows Phone 8, Kinect for Windows SDK Powered Microsoft’s Week
Microsofts week saw the release of its Kinect for Windows SDK (software development kit) and Runtime, a very public broadside at Google over the...
Facebook Users Get More Information Than They Give: Pew
Facebook's IPO will newly mint many millionaires, but many of the social network's 845 million users can't be accorded the same largesse.The majority of...
Motorola Xoom Tablets Sold With User Data on Woot
Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Feb. 3 said that it failed to wipe some user data from roughly 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola...
Tech Pioneer Philippe Kahn to Star in Super Bowl Ad
IT industry pioneer Philippe Kahn is set to star in a Super Bowl advertisement during the big game Sunday evening.Kahn, who founded software tools...
State of SCADA Security Worries Researchers
CANCUN, Mexico Recent reports painted a bleak picture of the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated by the...
FBI Prepares to Shut Down DNSChanger Temporary Servers, Infections Remain
Some of the major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected computers, despite the fact that the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure has...
Apache, Apple, PHP Release Security Updates
The past few days has been filled with security patches and updates that may have slipped past IT administrators.Apache released its HTTP Server 2.2.22...