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The Stuxnet worm, which made headlines last summer when it hit one version of a system that controls critical infrastructure systems governing power grids and industrial plants, is once again creating a buzz This time, there's speculation that it was created by Israel to target Iran....
Cloud computing and Fusion Apps were the major points of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's keynote speech at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 on Wednesday Ellison also took several swipes at Salesforce.com and its CEO, Marc Benioff....
Twitter was hit by what's called an "onMouseOver" attack this week that affected thousands of users The attack exploited a security flaw in Twitter, Bob Lord, a member of the site's security team, wrote on the company's blog. Users dubbed the hole the "onMouseOver" flaw because the first attack turned tweets different colors and brought up a popup ...
Working with data and the cloud were the topics of choice for keynote speeches delivered by Intel and Oracle executives at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 on Tuesday "I'm going to talk about harnessing the data footprint in terms of delivering services to IT users and consumers -- but more importantly, businesses -- to make data more portable, more personabl...
Oracle will issue the first release of its next-generation Fusion applications in the first quarter of 2011, company CEO Larry Ellison has announced It took the database giant five years to integrate the "best features" of PeopleSoft, Siebel and its own E-business suite. Oracle purchased PeopleSoft in 2004 and Siebel in 2005....
As spectators crowded in to see keynote speeches Monday at Oracle's OpenWorld 2010, the question on everyone's lips was: What's Mark Hurd going to say? The recently ousted HP CEO was hired by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison shortly after Hurd left HP amid a scandal involving a female contractor and fudged expense reports. Hurd's now a president at the dat...
With smartphones becoming ubiquitous and more and more people using mobile devices both at work and at home, enterprises are increasingly looking to make use of mobile applications. Small and medium-sized businesses are apparently beginning to pick up on this trend, and many of them are turning to developers to create custom mobile apps for them "T...
Microsoft released the Windows Phone 7 software development kit (SDK) on the Web Thursday, just over two weeks after the WinPho7 platform had been released to manufacturing This release is in English only, but versions in French, Italian, German and Spanish will be available in "the next couple of weeks," Brandon Watson wrote on the Windows Phone D...
Consumers will spend US$237 billion on online purchases in the United States alone in 2010, Javelin Strategy & Research predicts. That's almost 15 percent more than in 2009 Online retail is also growing globally. MasterCard announced a global agreement with cross-border e-commerce shopping firm Borderlinx in August which lets MasterCard holders pur...
Consumers will spend US$237 billion on online purchases in the United States alone in 2010, Javelin Strategy & Research predicts. That's almost 15 percent more than in 2009 Online retail is also growing globally. MasterCard announced a global agreement with cross-border e-commerce shopping firm Borderlinx in August which lets MasterCard holders pur...
Consumers will spend US$237 billion on online purchases in the United States alone in 2010, Javelin Strategy & Research predicts. That's almost 15 percent more than in 2009 Online retail is also growing globally. MasterCard announced a global agreement with cross-border e-commerce shopping firm Borderlinx in August which lets MasterCard holders pur...
The team that created Diaspora, the open source social network launched earlier this year to take on Facebook, released their source code on Thursday, as promised "This is now a community project, and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control," reads a note on the...
Intel on Tuesday announced it's taking its AppUp app store out of beta, just eight months after announcing the portal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January The store has 450,000 users, Intel claims. Developers must use the AppUp software development kit, and apps can only run on computers with Intel Atom processors. Developers ca...
Intel announced its latest processor, code-named "Sandy Bridge," at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), being held in San Francisco through Wednesday This has several new features, with a focus on providing a "rich visual experience," Intel said....
Next week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to approve use of the so-called "white spaces" -- the airwaves between broadcast television channels -- for wireless broadband However, the approaches for implementing this plan are still under debate....
A worm dubbed "Here you have" -- the subject line of the email it hides in -- is spreading wildly across the Internet The attack comes in the form of a link purporting to take the reader to a PDF file, but instead leads to an executable that tries to send copies of the worm to people listed in the victim's email address book....
Out in the Florida swamps, where men may be swamp things and believe in a jealous divinity, a crackpot pastor decided to commemorate Sept. 11 by the time-honored practice of book burning. In this instance, the book was the Quran That act of lunacy roiled the nation, arousing criticism from the White House as well as General David Petraeus, Secretar...
Google on Wednesday announced what it says are even faster Web search capabilities in its new "Google Instant" service Billed as "search before you type," the new feature uses predictive analysis to search the Web for the most likely matches as the user is typing in a query and streams results in real time according to its predictions....
A federal appeals court has ruled that prosecutors may need to get warrants to access cellphone location data The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Justice Department's argument that the Stored Communications Act requires judges to issue orders for access to such data whenever prosecutors show that it would be materi...
Samsung may begin building televisions with the Android operating system built in, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung's TV business line, reportedly said the company is reviewing whether to use Android, an OS more commonly found in various smartphones, in a new line of TV sets....
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