Monthly Archives: November 2012
HITRUST Backs ‘Community Defense’ Approach to Health Care Cyber-Security
As Congress reportedly prepares to push through a cyber-security bill next week that stalled this past summer, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has...
Microsoft Fixes 19 Security Flaws in November Patch Tuesday Update
Microsoft pushed out six security bulletins covering 19 vulnerabilities across Windows, Internet Explorer and several other products.Four of the six updates are rated "Critical,"...
By 2020 All Enterprise Apps Will Include Social Components: IDC Analyst
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The rapid adoption of enterprise social networking features in enterprise applications is going to continue because they are proven to...
Sinofsky Departure From Microsoft Mirrors Forstall Firing by Apple
Apple and Microsoft strangely paralleled each other the evening of Nov. 12, when the latter announced the departure of Steve Sinofsky, its president of...
Microsoft’s IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7 Now Available
Microsoft has released a new preview version of its Internet Explorer 10 browser for Windows 7.With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7, consumers...
Droid DNA by HTC
Droid DNA by HTC
The Droid DNA, like the rest of HTC's Droid franchise, will be exclusive to Verizon Wireless, at least through the holidays....
Cray Titan Supercomputer Now the World’s Fastest; IBM’s Sequoia No. 2
No. 1: Cray Titan
This supercomputer boasts 560,640 processors, including 261,632 of Nvidia's Tesla K20x GPU accelerators, which also were announced at SC12. It also...
Jelastic PaaS Integrates With Eclipse IDE
Jelastic, the provider of a Java cloud hosting platform, has announced the integration of the Jelastic platform as a service (PaaS) with Eclipse, the...
Big Switch Networks Rolls Out Open SDN Suite
Big Switch Networks, one of the new higher-profile companies that have sprung up around the software-defined networking (SDN) trend in data centers, is rolling...
Microsoft Fixing SharePoint Social Shortcomings With Yammer Features
Microsoft highlighted social media features in SharePoint 2013, unveiled Nov. 12 in Las Vegas, that come from its acquisition of Yammer in June, and...