Saturday 30 July 2011

iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 29

Facebook to pay hackers for bugs | Debt reduction deadlock drags down corporate capital spending on software, more

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iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 29
Evidence, or "evidence," surfaces this week showing the Next iPhone will be either a lot like the existing iPhone or radically different. Apple moves into weapons manufacturing. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

Network Consulting Services Lead Enterprise Transformation
The IP network has become business critical for organizations that increasingly rely on it for all forms of communication and business processes. As a result of these demands, services organizations will play an increasingly important role in helping enterprises develop network strategies to optimize and successfully deploy networking investments. Learn more

WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

CIOs Feel the Pressure to Optimize the Online Experience
In this exclusive survey, CIOs weigh in on the business impact of application performance. This white paper presents the survey results and offers guidance on building a business case to optimize the customer experience with consistently excellent application performance. Learn More

Facebook to pay hackers for bugs
Facebook is going to pay hackers to find problems with its website -- just so long as they report them to Facebook's security team first. Read More

Debt reduction deadlock drags down corporate capital spending on software, more
The U.S. debt reduction deadlock in Congress is already taking a toll on how much companies are spending on property, buildings and equipment, including computer hardware and software, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research. Read More

SysAdmin wanted to star in a Hollywood film
Happy SysAdmin Day. In honor of that, business video provider Qumu is inviting real life system administrators to enter a contest in which the winner will star in a short film, as part of series of short films. Qumu commissioned "Gears of War" video art director and filmmaker Jerry O'Flaherty to create a science-fiction short film with the SysAdmin as the hero. The first one is out now and is... Read More

Google gets defensive, buys IBM patents
Google acquired 1,030 patents from IBM in a defensive move aimed at protecting itself from lawsuits. "Bad software patent litigation is a wasteful war that no one will win," Google says. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Delivering Information you can trust
This whitepaper rovides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data quality and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. Read Now

Data center startup Plexxi lands $20 million more
Stealthy data center startup Plexxi has landed another $20 million in funding as it continues development of a network fabric to tie together applications, compute and storage. Read More

Apple has more cash than US government! Buyout not imminent though
Given the current level of disarray and ineptitude of the elected officials in Washington DC right now this news probably shouldn't be all that shocking: Apple with its $76 billion in the bank has more cash than the US with its almost $74 billion. The news has prompted a variety of reactions. More wacky news: 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!) Read More

A10 countersues Brocade over patents
A10 Networks said it is countersuing Brocade for patent infringement and seeking to bar sales of its competitor's products in response to a motion filed this week by Brocade to bar sales of A10 products. Read More

Latest Windows Phone 7 tools let coders ready Mango apps
Microsoft has released the latest beta version of the Windows Phone 7 Mango development tools and OS build to developers. They can now start final preparations for submitting the first batch of Mango apps for certification in August. Carriers and handset makers are already testing near-final code for new phones due this fall. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud
Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now

Anonymous claims to have breached ManTech International's network
A tweet sent by the hacker group Anonymous at midnight yesterday claims the group has broken into the network of defense contractor ManTech International and intends to release seized documents within 24 hours. Read More

Malwarebytes preps enterprise edition of PC-cleaning software
Malwarebytes this fall expects to release an enterprise-grade anti-malware platform that it says doesn't compete directly with traditional antivirus software because it relies more on observing how the malware acts and less on seeking code signatures. Read More

CA Technologies buys Watchmouse for cloud monitoring
CA Technologies is purchasing WatchMouse, a maker of SaaS-based tools for monitoring mobile and on-demand applications, the company announced Friday. Terms were not disclosed. Read More

How to survive Black Hat and Defcon without getting hacked -- maybe
Among the thousands of security experts at the Black Hat, Defcon and Security BSides conferences next week in Las Vegas, some will surely test whether they can break into nearby laptops, phones, networks -- even RFID-enabled room keys and credit cards. Read More

Best of Google Labs: A Retrospective
As Google shuts down Google Labs, we look back at the many innovations the effort brought us, including Gmail, Google Goggles, Google Earth and Google Maps, among others. Read More



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