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Canonical aims for enterprise desktop with Ubuntu business remix

Ryan Paul — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:30:05 +0000

Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, a new variant of the popular Linux distribution that has been customized for use in enterprise environments. It is based on Ubuntu 11.10, the current ...

Windows 8 Tablets Have No Clear Advantage Over The iPad in Business

Ryan Faas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:15:55 +0000

This week’s Microsoft announcement of the details of Windows 8 on ARM-powered tablets raises a big question: Will Windows 8 tablets based on ARM or running on more tradition x86 hardware blunt the iPad’s surge in business and enterprise environments? A few years ago, it would have been easy to say that Windows 8 devices [...]

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No third-party code on the Windows on ARM desktop means no plugins for Internet Explorer

Peter Bright — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:30:33 +0000

Yesterday, Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, described the restrictions that Windows on ARM ("WOA") would impose on its desktop. The built-in Windows apps—including Explorer and Internet Explo...

Apple Doesn’t Need To Worry About Windows 8 On ARM, But Android Does

Ryan Faas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:26:34 +0000

Microsoft released a number of important details about its plans for Windows 8 on Arm (WOA) tablets. WOA tablets will focus on having a long battery life as well as being light, thin, and inxpensive. They will feature some traditional Windows elements but have a focus on the Metro interface pioneered on Windows Phone and [...]

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A Valentine’s Day present for SCADA companies: new exploit tools

Sean Gallagher — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:34:00 +0000

There's good news for people who love bad news about the security of industrial control systems. At the SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4) in Miami Beach in January, there were a host of new security vulnerabilities une...

Google expands security bug bounty program to Chrome OS

Dan Goodin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Google says its bug bounty program, which awards hefty cash rewards for privately reported security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser and online services, has been such a success that the company will expand it to include Chr...

In Another Blow For RIM, NOAA Ditches BlackBerry For iPhone and iPad

Ryan Faas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:43:29 +0000

Earlier this week, it was revealed that energy giant Haliburton is was going to begin a transition that will replace all corporate BlackBerry devices with iPhones. RIM got more bad news today in the form of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announcing that the federal agency will also be dropping the BlackBerry platform [...]

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Businesses Can Disable iCloud But Won’t Gain Much Security In The Process

Ryan Faas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:35:03 +0000

There’s no doubt that iCloud offers some great value to Mac and iOS users. It even has some potential as a business tool. Unfortunately, like many other personal cloud services, iCloud presents some major securtiy concerns when it comes into the workplace – either on a user’s iOS device or on a business Mac [...]

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GPS air traffic navigation system would be crippled by LightSquared network, Congress is told

Jon Brodkin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:45:36 +0000

Airline industry representatives and a US transportation official told members of Congress yesterday that LightSquared's planned 4G LTE network would interfere with a GPS-based navigation system that government and industry...

The Dangers Lurking for Business In The Cloud

Ryan Faas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:58:05 +0000

Today BYOD and the consumerization of IT aren’t just buzzwords on the horizon, they’re fact of business life and have begun transforming the workplace for millions of professionals. Many solutions exist to deal with managing user-owned mobile devices and integrating them to varying degrees with corporate resources and shared data – something that the [...]

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Hackers target iPhone manufacturer to protest harsh working conditions

Dan Goodin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:49:00 +0000

Hackers protesting harsh working conditions at iPhone manufacturer Foxconn dumped what they said were megabytes of private data belonging to the outsourcing giant. "Note: The passwords inside these files could allow individuals ...

Want To Sell Your Next Phone? It’s Not Worth It Unless It’s An iPhone

Ryan Faas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:32:13 +0000

Your brand new car starts losing value the second you drive it off the dealer’s lot – that an old (and very true) addage. Like a new, a new piece of technology begins to lose value or depreciate as soon as you leave the store. With cars and with major tech purchases like a [...]

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In world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc. soars to new heights

Jon Brodkin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:00 +0000

It's a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-...

Chrome 17 released, will preload autocompleted URLs as you type

Ryan Paul — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:20:31 +0000

Google has just released Chrome version 17, which brings several minor enhancements to the company's web browser— including a new web address preloading feature and improved protection against malicious downloads. The new ...

Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell

Peter Bright — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:10:00 +0000

Intel has announced that its Haswell architecture, due to ship some time in 2013, will include hardware support for transactional memory. Transactional memory is a promising technique designed to make the creation of relia...