Friday, August 19, 2011

iPhone 5 rumor roll-up; Anonymous breaches another US defense contractor

Anonymous breaches another US defense contractor | AES proved vulnerable by Microsoft researchers

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iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Aug. 19
This week in rumors, there was a warming trend in the iOSsphere with renewed hope that iPhone 5 might actually have LTE radios after all, along with a magnetic power connector, and with speculation the iPhone was delayed because of either an HTC patent complaint or Steve Jobs' upcoming biography. Read More


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HP IT Migrates to an all HP network
It's no surprise when a high-tech company uses its own products. However, the story of how HP recently migrated its own network to HP Networking equipment has unique aspects that make it relevant to all enterprises in any industry or market segment. Read now

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Anonymous breaches another US defense contractor
The politically oriented hacking group Anonymous has released 1GB of what is says are private e-mails and documents from an executive of a U.S. defense company that sells unmanned aerial vehicles to police and the U.S. military. Read More

AES proved vulnerable by Microsoft researchers
Researchers from Microsoft and the Dutch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications. Read More

Shades of Blue reflected in HP's dramatic reshuffling
HP's plans to get out of the PC business, acquire software maker Autonomy and retreat from its webOS device investments will allow the tech giant to sharpen its focus on enterprise IT markets and capitalize on the software-centric strengths of CEO Leo Apotheker. 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

NASA is NOT predicting an alien invasion
There has been a bit of a dust-up in the space information world this week as a number of press outlets seized on what at first blush was reported to be a NASA study saying alien armies might destroy Earth because of our greenhouse gas issues. Read More

5 big tech players; 5 bad Android apps
Using Android isn't all cupcakes and ice cream sandwiches. Here are five of Android's biggest app fails -- from tech companies that should know better, like Facebook and Skype. Read More

Firefox 7 reaches beta, promises faster browsing
Mozilla yesterday released a beta of Firefox 7, putting the lighter-weight browser in front of a large number of users for the first time. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu

Midmarket Blades Lead the Pack
A rock solid base for Dynamic Infrastructures. For IT organizations the blade server environment, in combination with virtualization technologies on various levels, is the IT infrastructure of choice to achieve considerable consolidation benefits and ensuring flexible usage of server resources. Read now!

HP's Apotheker changes his tune on mobility
Six months after laying out his "strategic vision" for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realize it. And abandoned the mobile computing space. Read More

Wall Street Beat: Megamergers, earnings roil tech
Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, acquisitions and earnings news from the world's top PC makers (HP, Dell and Lenovo), the biggest Internet business (Google), and a major handset maker (Motorola Mobility) marked major realignments in tech this week. Read More

3G cellular network-in-a-box provides service to disaster zones and remote locations
We've all cursed our cell service providers when the signal peters out. But what if there's no signal at all because you are so remote or the network has been knocked offline by a disaster? Now there's a turnkey 3G cellular network-in-a-box that emergency agencies and commercial businesses are using to bring a signal to where none exists. Read More

Microsoft confirms app store in Windows 8
Microsoft has begun talking about Windows 8 in general terms, reprising a blog-based strategy that it used in the year-long run-up to Windows 7. Read More



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Tips and tricks for protecting Android devices
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