Google will be introducing its Nexus One smartphone device next Tuesday, it appears certain. Not that Google has said as much: All the the company has announced is that it will hold an “Android related” press conference on Jan. 5, a day identified in prior rumor accounts as the Google phone’s launch date. The expectation [...]
Data mining is becoming a crowded field filled with software providers using similar strategies. Their basic goal is always the same. The analytics platforms are designed to slice and dice data to make sales trends and buying opportunities more evident. The firms that can deliver this product more accurately and more rapidly grow their reputations [...]
In 2010, application developers will continue to be asked to do more with less. During the global financial meltdown of the past year, the amount of work didn’t change while resources were dramatically pared back. The result was that new projects suffered. Talking with application development leaders today, there is more optimism. While [...]
Hackers have once again demonstrated that the GSM standard, the most widely used mobile phone standard in the world, can be hacked. The GSM Association has acknowledged the technology’s flaw, but it said the weakness is not a serious threat and that hackers have not been able to create a practical attack capability that can [...]
Back in early October — nearly three months before Umar Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit — the Transportation Safety Administration’s blog cheerily announced it had received $355 million of Recovery Act money for “a lot of really nifty improvements to aviation security.” Included in that amount: $25 million to pay [...]
As netbook sales continue to grow, hardware and software vendors are battling to exploit this relatively new market. Intel released a beta software development kit in early December for developers who create applications for netbooks based on its Atom chip. These apps will run in the Microsoft Windows and Moblin operating systems. Meanwhile, Google has [...]
Chinese-language consumers unwilling or unable to pay the cost of a legitimate copy of Microsoft’s Windows XP now have a new alternative: a clone of the operating system that’s based on Ubuntu. Dubbed “Ylmf OS,” the software is available from Rain Forest Wind Guangdong Computer Technology as a free download on a dedicated Web site. [...]
When Google opened up the source code for its Chrome operating system last month, third-party hardware manufacturers lined up plans to build Chrome-based netbooks, with availability expected in late 2010. Could Google also be cooking up plans to sell its own, Google-branded Chrome netbook at around the same time? The blogosphere’s rumor mill is humming [...]
Apple could be gearing up to release a new tablet device known as the “iSlate” as early as next month, according to the latest batch of rumors circulating in the tech press. It turns out Apple owns the domain islate.com, MacRumors reported last week, citing a historic record that briefly exposed the Cupertino company as [...]
Entering a physical facility should be just as secure as logging onto a PC. Security professionals often find themselves hard-pressed to secure both physical and logical assets. So why are so many organizations behind the curve when it comes to managing physical and logical access? There are dozens of excuses: “It’s too expensive.” [...]