Hacker claims break-in of Mitt Romney's Hotmail account
A hacker yesterday claimed to have broken into a personal email account linked to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney by answering 'secret' password-reset questions.
A hacker yesterday claimed to have broken into a personal email account linked to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney by answering 'secret' password-reset questions.
Want to try out Windows 8's Metro interface, without having to ditch your Android tablet? Now you can. Remote desktop vendor Splashtop announced Wednesday that it would add Android support to its Windows 8 Metro testbed product, which allows users to simulate a Metro tablet environment.
Apple and Samsung will account for more than half of the smartphone market through the second half of 2012, each taking a different approach to get there, according to forecasts from Canaccord Genuity.
Microsoft needs to drop the Windows name from its new consumer products, such as Windows RT tablets and smartphones, an industry analyst said.
After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat Wednesday launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms.
RFID reader manufacturer Mojix is turning to virtualization to boost the performance of its long-range passive RFID system, used in manufacturing and retail inventory management.
LinkedIn has confirmed researcher claims that the calendar integration feature in its mobile apps sends complete details about people's upcoming meetings back to the company's servers, and it has updated the apps to limit what's being collected.
It is illegal for U.S. employers to issue broad-based prohibitions of employee discussions about their workplaces on social media, according to a new memo from the acting general counsel of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Terremark, the cloud vendor owned by Verizon, has become a platinum member of EMC's cloud service provider program, solidifying a relationship between the two enterprise service providers.
When David Rudzinsky, SVP and CIO of women's medical device manufacturer Hologic, thinks about investing in a technology upgrade for his business, it has to do at least one of four things: drive new revenue, help reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, or increase reliability of the products -- or preferably all four.
I just took Airtime, the new video chat service from start-up stars Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, for a spin on Tuesday, its first day of general availability. My first impressions: It works fine, though I'm not sure I'll get addicted to it.
Chipsets that integrate the upcoming 802.11ac wireless standard and Bluetooth 4.0 are being demonstrated by Qualcomm Atheros at the Computex show in Taipei this week.
Back in 2006, Jim Lavoie, president of Rite Solutions, a Defense Department software contractor, wanted his employees to play a more active role in innovating new ideas. But he knew a top-down approach from management ordering such behavior wouldn't work. "Organizations that are smart enough to ask employees for ideas know that the best approach is to do it in a fun way," he says. "If it's not fun, it's work; and if it's work, it sucks."
Today's IaaS (infrastructure as a service) Cloud platforms allow customers to rent iservers and storage on demand, typically by the hour. But in the future, such services could be sold in a much more efficient and granular manner, with specific resources, such as CPU cycles and memory, rented for just a few seconds, according to new research.
Gartner kicked off its Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, with a "top 10" list of the most significant emerging trends that will impact data centers and information technology used by businesses and government from now into the next four or five years.
Hewlett-Packard kicked off its annual HP Discover user conference, being held in Las Vegas this week, with a number of new Cloud computing offerings, emphasizing a single architecture that can be used across both in-house and public Clouds.
The National Resource Conservation Service was faced with some staggering figures: more than 100 scientific modeling tools deployed to each and every one of its 12,500 planners, who were spread out in more than 2,000 offices.
Microsoft has partnered with Taiwan's Quanta Computer to design a Windows-based system that aims to get business customers up and running quickly on a private Cloud.
Qualcomm gave reporters a chance to try out Windows RT on its Snapdragon S4 processor at the Computex trade show Wednesday, though there's still no word when Windows tablets on Qualcomm hardware will hit the market.
Security researchers today published detailed information about how the Flame cyber-espionage malware spreads through a network by exploiting Microsoft's Windows Update mechanism.