Monthly Archives: March 2012
iPhone’s Canadian Triumph Emphasizes Need for BlackBerry 10
Apples iPhone has apparently surpassed Research In Motions BlackBerry as the top smartphone in Canada, according to data assembled by Bloomberg and research firm...
IBM Continues India Expansion With New Punjab Office
Continuing its effort to increase its presence in so-called growth markets, IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently announced the opening of a new branch office in...
U.S. Army Launches App Marketplace Prototype
The U.S. Army has launched a prototype app store known as the Army Software Marketplace that will enable Army personnel to access apps for...
BlackBerry 10 Prototype Coming Soon: Report
Research In Motion will debut a prototype of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone in May, with the intention of giving applications developers a crucial...
Facebook Pushes Back Against Employers Wanting Passwords
Facebook, perhaps anxious to avoid public controversy as it prepares for a much-publicized initial public offering, is moving to squelch a widely reported practice...
Verizon Data Breach Report Offers Scary Truths About Security
Verizons annual "Data Breach Investigations Report" includes some sobering findings that show just how pervasive social and political hacking has become. So-called hacktivism was...
Dell, Ubuntu Team for Updated Linux Cloud Platform
Dell made a strategic international software development community move March 22 when it announced a partnership with Ubuntu Linux provider Canonical to support Dell's...
New Duqu Version Discovered in Wild by Symantec
The Duqu worm, the close cousin to the Stuxnet worm that was first discovered in September 2011, is back in the wild with some...
India-Based Tech Firms Boost U.S. Economy, Job Growth
While the overall unemployment in the United States remains disturbingly high, the direct workforce employed in the country by the Indian IT sector has...
New Practice Fusion Site Offers Big Data for Public Health Research
The research division of electronic health record (EHR) vendor Practice Fusion launched a new Web database March 20 that allows researchers to uncover patterns...