Monthly Archives: April 2012
Oracle Rapped for Misleading Advertising
Oracle has come down on the wrong side of an advertising watchdog organization over misleading advertising claims, prompted by complaints from rival IBM.The National...
Scalable
Scalable
Scala emphasizes scalability—this means large development teams, large code bases and large numbers of CPU cores. Adapting to a multicore and distributed computing world,...
Big Data: The New Natural Resource
Big Data: The New Natural Resource
Big data is the digital convergence of structured data found inside databases and unstructured data flowing from new sources...
Malware Masquerading as Angry Birds Game
Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download...
Mac Flashback Attack Shows Apple’s Security Weaknesses
The number of Macs infected with the Flashback malware might be abating, but the damage to Apples reputation within the security community could take...
One in Five U.S. Adults Does Not Use the Internet: Pew
Wheres the surf? One in five American adults does not use the Internet, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet Project. Senior...
Apple Denies Designer Philippe Starck’s Claim of ‘Revolutionary’ Device
On the heels of a widely reported interview in French publication Le Figaro, where famous French designer Philippe Starck said he had been tapped...
Apple, Publishers Pushing Back Against DOJ Ebook Charges
Apple is calling the U.S. Department of Justices accusation that it colluded with a number of publishers to keep ebook prices high and Amazon.com...
CISPA Proposal Is Not Son of SOPA, Despite Internet Hype
In case you hadnt noticed, theres a huge outcry going on around the Internet right now regarding CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection...
Xerox Highlights Health Care Innovations at TEDMed
At the TEDMed conference in Washington, D.C, Xerox announced research efforts aimed at digitizing patient information and using natural-language technology to collect unstructured medical...