By Don Reisinger Although Microsoft often comes under fire from critics who say the software giant delivers products that are rife with security issues, that hasn’t harmed the dominance of the company’s Windows platform. In fact, most would agree that Windows has such a dominant share in today’s PC market—nearly 89 percent, according to Net Market [...]
The volume of malware continued to increase in April as online scammers and malware distributors took advantage of major events according to security experts. Fake antivirus software and poisoned image search links were particularly prevalent in April. There were over 73,000 new variants of malware released daily in April, a 26 percent increase over April [...]
Google made waves here at its fourth annual developer conference with its Music beta, as well as key upgrades to its Android “Honeycomb” operating system for tablets. But perhaps the biggest revelation was the Ice Cream Sandwich build that will attempt to bring Honeycomb features to smartphones and other devices with smaller screens. While that batch of news [...]
By Clint Boulton Google’s Chrome operating system held the spotlight at the Google I/O keynote May 11, wowing users with the promise of Chrome notebooks from Samsung and Acer. The attendees were also thrilled to hear they would be getting a Chromebook on June 15 when they hit retail stores. This news, delivered by Google Senior Vice [...]
Microsoft has announced a set of toolkits to further enable developers to build device applications that take advantage of Windows Azure, the Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices. Microsoft announced Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices, consisting of assets for Windows Phone, iOS and a preview of tools for Android. Using the toolkits, developers can use the [...]
By Clint Boulton Patent-poor Google has every right and cause to bid for Nortel’s 6,000 enterprise networking, wireless, VOIP patent and patent applications. The search engine April 4 offered $900 million for the rights to the technology, an overture Nortel accepted as it seeks its way out of the financial quagmire of bankruptcy. Google doesn’t make hardware and [...]
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a new series of laptops that seem tailor-made for the “post PC” era, with ultra-portable designs and access to a prepaid 3G mobile broadband service. The unveiling dovetails with rumors of HP’s plans to offer a larger set of cloud services, courtesy of a note accidentally posted (and later retracted) on the LinkedIn page [...]
The Apple iPad and its competitors are changing the way consumers spend their electronics-budget dollars. According to the Nielsen Company, tablets are also changing the way consumers use their devices. Among tablet owners who also own a desktop, 35 percent said that they now use their desktop “less often or not at all,” the firm reported in [...]
There’s no question that Red Hat, long the world market leader in open source-based enterprise Linux development, is doing whatCisco Systems, Oracle and a large number of other established IT companies have had to do. And that would be to expand markets by shifting a big part of their strategy to cloud systems development, as soon [...]
Microsoft has issued a first-ever security update for Windows Phone 7. Back in March, attackers requested nine valid digital certificates from Comodo, an entity that issues SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, and managed to receive one before the account was shut down. Comodo said it noted no attempts to use the certificates, which could have been [...]
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