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Three new options emerge for managing smartphones in the enterprise

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:29:53 +0000

The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain.

All three are hosted solutions for managing and securing smartphones, essentially mobile computers accessing corporate networks and data.

Apple dishes new details on iPad

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:46:49 +0000

The availability of pre-orders isn’t the only new development in iPad-land. Apple also updated its site with a plethora of new details about its latest and greatest device, from information on the 3G networking capabilities to a more in-depth description of the iBooks application. Let’s take a look at what caught our attention.

Cisco to expand video calling with IME

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.

Microsoft releases MVC upgrade for building Web apps

Paul Krill — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:09:13 +0000

Microsoft this week made available a final release of ASP.Net MVC 2, which provides a Model View Controller pattern for building Web applications leveraging ASP.Net.

Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari as Pwn2Own looms

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:18:15 +0000

Two weeks before a browser hacking contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, Apple on Thursday patched 16 vulnerabilities in Safari, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack a machine.

IBM stops disclosing U.S. headcount data

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:38:45 +0000

IBM says it is the No. 1 technology employer in the U.S. and the world, but as time moves on it may be harder to tell just what is happening to its domestic workforce.

Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:46:25 +0000

Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the storage devices.

Design firm accuses Mozilla of UI plagiarism

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:39:51 +0000

A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making.

Google tests revamped Blogger layout design tool

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:32:10 +0000

Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.

Start your browsers: iPad set to go on pre-sale

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:14 +0000

The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting today, Friday, March 12, at 8:30 a.m. EST.

The ugly truth: Security vendors can't solve many threats

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today's most pernicious threats.

The ugly truth: Security vendors can't solve many threats

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Jason Snyder — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

What happened this week? Online retailer Newegg leaped out of the frying pan and into the fire after it was found to be selling ersatz silicon. AT&T released its first Android handset to a less-than-rapturous reception. MySpace announced it's attempting yet another comeback, and it turns out that sex doesn't sell on the Internet -- at least, not for as much as it used to. Have you got the skinny on all things tech? Prove it by acing our quiz. Correct answers are worth 10 points, and no, you don't get extra credit for owning an iPhone -- sorry. Now begin.