Monthly Archives: July 2012
Yahoo Says It Has Closed Security Hole Exploited in Breach
Yahoo officials say the vulnerability exploited by hackers that compromised about 450,000 emails and passwords has been fixed.The company confirmed July 12 that hackers...
Research In Motion to Pay $147.2 Million to Settle Patent Suit
Beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) got some more bad news this weekend as a Northern California court ruled the company was guilty...
Apple’s Clean Energy Promise Draws Greenpeace Skepticism
The environmental group Greenpeace has issued a report raising questions about Apples commitment to using 100 percent renewable energy sources to power its facilities,...
Android Cracks 50 Percent as Smartphone Sales Rise: Nielsen
The U.S. market for feature-rich smartphones is still expanding at a rapid clip, with two-thirds of new mobile phone buyers opting for devices that...
Nvidia, Phandroid Online Forums Hacked, Passwords Stolen
Nvidia and the Android Forum on the Phandroid Website are joining Yahoo as the latest organizations to have been hacked and user information compromised.On...
Baltimore Man Indicted for Selling $4M in Hot Software: BSA Applauds
The Business Software Alliance applauded the recent indictment of Baltimore resident Naveed Sheikh, who illegally sold more than 1,000 copyrighted commercial software programs from...
Windows 8
Windows 8
Microsoft plans to launch Windows 8 later this year. And when it does, the company hopes that consumers and enterprise users will warm...
Enterprise Social Media: Separating the Good From the ‘Me-Too’ Players
Scores of companies have been promoting themselves as players in the enterprise social networking space of late, but they are not all created equal,...
Why Data Centers Are Becoming Strategic Service Hubs
Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the way users and enterprises use IT; most of us already know that. But what hasn't been discussed too...
Google Nexus 7 in the Market, Now You Just Have to Find One
Google's newest connected device, the Nexus 7 tablet, showed up at retailers on Friday the 13th of July and went out the doors almost...