Chris Preimesberger

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–On a clear blue-sky day in which one seemingly could see forever, Google offered its own clear view of the future May 18 on the first day of its 10th annual developer conference. It was the first time Google I/O was held outside San Francisco; this time it’s being staged (literally) at Shoreline […]

10 Mobile Security Vulnerabilities and How to Address Them Developers need to be aware of the most prevalent mobile security vulnerabilities and the best ways to handle them. Weak Server-Side Controls API services on the Web are accessible even without the mobile app for which they were created. Hackers can sniff out the wireless network […]

Here’s yet another example of the XXX-as-a-Service cloud culture in which we’re now well embedded: Big Data-as-a-Service. Get used to it; BDaaS is going to get more attention as time rolls on. Startup Cazena, putting a stake in the ground in this relatively new sector, has launched its own version of the service, which provides […]

Oracle President Safra Catz and Android lead developer Dan Bornstein were the spotlight witnesses on the stand May 16 on Day 6 of the third Oracle v. Google copyright case. Litigation has been going on for six years and undoubtedly has made several lawyers wealthy. Oracle is seeking $9.3 billion in damages and lost profits […]

Endpoint security software provider Invincea has released a new version of its product called, simply and curiously enough, X. Yes, X. There’s no conventional name for the product, no “signature,” so to speak. This fits the niche of the company to a “T”: Invincea’s security expertise is protecting endpoint devices from signature-less data exploits, or […]

Google, owner of the Android mobile device operating system, took another set of body blows from Oracle attorneys May 13 on Day 5 of the third Oracle v. Google copyright infringement trial in San Francisco. Under cross-examination by Oracle attorney Annette Hurst, Google Android engineer Daniel Bornstein was forced to acknowledge that he “scrubbed” references […]

Which will win out in a court of law: an ostensible first business use of a product name, or the documented first filing for that same name at the U.S. Patent Office? At its annual EMC World conference in Las Vegas on May 2, EMC unveiled its new Unity storage array system for midrange companies. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—There are apparently no quick and easy names to attach to an IoT platform, and some of the world’s biggest IT product-and-service providers are finding this out firsthand. SAP’s laboriously named HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things was launched last week at its Sapphire Now trade conference in Orlando, Fla. Hewlett-Packard […]

Andy Rubin, chief architect of Google’s Android mobile device operating system, spent an uncomfortable day May 12 in Oracle’s copyright infringement trial over Google’s use of Java components in building the world’s most ubiquitous smartphone operating system. Jurors at the federal courthouse in San Francisco were shown something Rubin wrote in an email some 10 […]

Verizon, elbowing itself into the cloud services market against Amazon, IBM Softlayer, Microsoft, Google and a raft of others, is adding new enterprise-level functionality to its features lineup. The latest is data backup with an intentional emphasis on copy data management. The giant telecom’s Enterprise Solutions division revealed May 11 that it has joined with […]

Alphabet Executive Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed May 10 in court that his company was “under a great deal of pressure” in 2007 to develop the Android mobile operating system due to the release that year of Apple’s first iPhone, which led to Google’s use of parts of the Java programming language […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is moving full speed ahead into the Internet of things market with a new all-purpose enterprise platform that it hopes will put the company on the radar screens of IoT equipment buyers for years to come. The HPE Universal Internet of Things (IoT) Platform, launched May 10 here at the IoT/AppsWorld […]