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New Cloudera Desktop GUI Simplifies Hadoop for Users

NEW YORK -- Cloudera, which touts itself as the commercial Hadoop company, has announced the release of Cloudera Desktop, a graphical user interface (GUI)...

Lawmakers Urge Lower Bar for Health IT Data Breach Notification

Two key chairmen of U.S. House committees Oct. 1 urged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to revise or appeal the agency's controversial...

RIM Plugs BlackBerry Security Hole

Research In Motion has plugged a security hole that left BlackBerry users open to phishing attacks.The bug lies in the BlackBerry browser dialog box,...

Zyrion Updates Traverse for Better View of IT Infrastructure

Zyrion is looking to make it easier for businesses to gauge the performance of their IT infrastructures.The company is launching Version 5.0 of its...

Kill Time with 15 Totally Useless iPhone Apps

Kill Time with 15 Totally Useless iPhone Apps by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: iBugPrice: $2.99"From the wacky creators of iBeer," boasts the App Store description for this app,...

Dell’s Use of TI Processor Is No Threat to Intel, Windows

The Dell Latitude Z600, which went on sale Sept. 29, offers a feature sure to please users, and that may get it talked about,...

Microsoft’s Windows Share Falls, Snow Leopard Gains, Report Finds

Microsoft saw its share of the operating system market fall in September, even as Apple gained thanks to users' adoption of Snow Leopard, according...

Consumer Spending Drives Up Chip Sales: SIA

Semiconductor sales continued to grow in August, jumping 5 percent over sales in July and rising for the sixth consecutive month, according to the...

IBM Puts Google Apps in Its Crosshairs with Lotus Cloud E-Mail

IBM Oct. 5 will begin selling a Web-based version of its popular Lotus Notes software for $3 per user per month, a move that...

New Google Book: ‘Inside Larry and Sergey’s Brain’

Recently I received a copy of "Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain" by Richard Brandt, a former BusinessWeek reporter. It was published Sept. 17:"Inside Larry...