Can Apple iOS devices gain confidence of IT security pros?
There's great enthusiasm for using iPhones and iPads in the workplace, but experts say Apple's limited transparency about security issues can make enterprise adoption problematic.
There's great enthusiasm for using iPhones and iPads in the workplace, but experts say Apple's limited transparency about security issues can make enterprise adoption problematic.
June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.
Verizon Communications Friday said it has agreed to acquire Hughes Telematics for $612 million.
Europe's lawmakers have asked for feedback on its proposed new rules on allocating state aid to fund broadband networks.
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the Stuxnet cyberattacks on Iran in an effort to slow the country's development of a nuclear program, according to a report in The New York Times.
Google has asked European Union regulators to investigate alleged collusion between Nokia, Microsoft and so-called patent trolls.
While some online services are stepping up their efforts to protect private user data from government requests, there is plenty room for improvement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday. It is time for all companies that hold private user data to make public commitments to defend their users against government overreach, the foundation said.
Samsung Electronics has acquired Nanoradio, a Swedish company that develops energy-efficient chipsets for Wi-Fi, it said on Friday.
Google on Thursday began helping users in China navigate the country's strict censorship systems by highlighting search terms that will likely result in page errors, as part of an update to the company's search engine. But the new feature could be arriving too late to help the search giant improve its presence in the country, according to one analyst.
Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.
Microsoft said on Thursday that it would kick off a Windows 8 upgrade program on Saturday, June 2, giving buyers of new Windows 7 PCs the chance to grab a copy of the not-yet-released operating system for $15.
Closely following its preview release of Windows 8, Microsoft has also posted a release candidate of its next version of the Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment), as well as release candidates of the .Net framework and the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 source-control software.
Legitimate browser functionality can be abused to trick users into believing that a trusted website has asked them to download a file, which is actually being served from a rogue server, Google security engineer Michal Zalewski demonstrated on Tuesday.
In order to get its Linux distribution to run on the next generation of secured desktop computing hardware, the Fedora Project will obtain a digital signature from Microsoft, a developer from the project announced Wednesday.
Security Jam 2012, an online forum led by NATO and European Union officials, has netted a list of ideas about how to improve Europe's defense posture and crisis management. And cybersecurity figured high on the list, with some saying NATO and the EU need a "coalition of the willing" to help with international cyberdefense.
As expected, Microsoft today shipped Windows 8 Release Preview, the final sneak peek the company will offer the general public before the operating system goes on sale later this year.
Salesforce.com's Desk.com service is about to add multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said Thursday.
The success of the SpaceX mission to supply the International Space Station is bolstering the fledgling commercial space industry.
A meeting of the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December could lead to broad new regulations of the Internet, including per-click taxes, if U.S. and other delegations don't work hard to oppose proposals, U.S. officials and Internet governance experts told lawmakers Thursday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook this week again slammed rival Microsoft's Windows 8 and its promise to be an operating system for all devices, whether tablets, desktops, laptops or hybrids that combine elements of all.