Thursday, August 09, 2012

Does 'shadow IT' lurk in your company?

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Does 'shadow IT' lurk in your company?
Business divisions are bypassing the IT department, making their own decisions to buy cloud-based application services or use mobile devices, raising the specter of so-called "shadow IT" that's outside the knowledge or control of the CIO and the IT staff. Read More


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Federal watchdog calls on FCC to reassess mobile phone radiation issues
Noting that the Federal Communications Commission's Radio Frequency exposure limits may not reflect the latest research, and testing requirements may not identify maximum exposure in all possible usage conditions, the Government Accountability Office today said the agency should reassess and possibly change its regulations regarding mobile phone radiation. Read More

Black Hat/Defcon 2012: The hacking hour's scariest moments
Highlights of exploit demos and other memorable events Read More

Microsoft overhauls enterprise Office and SharePoint app development
With the introduction of Office 2013 Preview, Microsoft has overhauled how business developers write Office and SharePoint applications and how users access them while at the same time giving IT administrators the ability to control which applications are available to users. Read More

Linux distributors duke it out in cloud OS market
Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers, but at least one analyst says the market is still split between the Suse, Red Hat and Canonical's Ubuntu. Read More


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Google rolls out search upgrades, Voice Search for iOS
Google is planning to integrate Gmail results into its core search product and turn the previously U.S.-only Knowledge Graph into a global feature, according to an official blog post by Google Search Senior Vice President Amit Singhal. Read More

Raw video: Lenovo introduces ThinkPad Tablet 2 running Windows 8
Raw video: Lenovo introduces ThinkPad Tablet 2 running Windows 8 The Tablet 2 has a 10.1-inch screen and is less than 10 millimeters thick. From: networkworld Views: 43 3 ratings Time: 01:19 More in Science & Technology Read More

Mat Honan Hack Pokes Holes in Apple iCloud
The hackers that hijacked Mat Honan's online life, took over his Twitter account(s), and wiped out his iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and Google accounts in one fell swoop showed some perseverance in achieving that goal. Not all attackers are quite that determined, but the hack still demonstrates some serious flaws in Apple's iCloud and the iCloud security model. Read More

Judge vacates jury verdict, favoring RIM in patent dispute with Mformation
A judge in California has vacated a July jury decision that Research In Motion pay US$147.2 million in damages to Mformation Technologies to settle a patent dispute. Read More


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CSOs warned to watch for FinFisher spyware
Computers that appear to be running the commercially available FinFisher spyware sold to law enforcement and governments have been found in almost a dozen countries on five continents, a security researcher said on Wednesday. Read More

VMware Acquires Big Data Analytics Tool Log Insight
VMware has snapped up Big Data Analytics tool Log Insight, a product of Pattern Insight. Pattern Insight stated that the team and technology will make a move to VMware headquarters. Read More

Android and iOS dominate mobile market, says IDC
Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them -- more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined, IDC said Wednesday. Windows Phone's share of the market continues to grow, although it remains far behind the front runners. Read More

Wikipedia suffers outage after cable cut
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, experienced an outage on Monday after a fibre cable between its two data centres was cut. Read More

 
 
 

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