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M86 Security Labs released a list of the top 15 most observed vulnerabilities for the first half of 2010 and, surprise-surprise, Adobe Acrobat & Adobe Reader (No. 1) and Microsoft Internet Explorer (No. 2) took the top two spots[......]
IBM now holds the world record for the highest SPECjbb 2005 benchmark ever achieved by a two-socket, x86 server, and Big Blue wants the whole world to know about it. You'll have to excuse us if we help them out a little[......]
Market research firm IDC crunched the numbers and determined that IBM is the market share leader in Social Platforms, at least in terms of total software revenue. According to the report, which IBM is plenty eager to share with anyone who will listen, worldwide revenue for the social platforms market climbed to nearly $370 million in 2009, representing a growth rate of over 55 percent. [......]
Sometimes wars come down to alliances, and in the browser war, Mozilla now has IBM in its corner, says Bob Sutor, VP of Linux and Open Source at IBM. "Some of the software we all use shouldn’t surprise you since we make it, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Symphony," Sutor wrote in a blog post[......]
Sometimes wars come down to alliances, and in the browser war, Mozilla now has IBM in its corner, says Bob Sutor, VP of Linux and Open Source at IBM. [......]
Motorola late last week announced a surprisingly sleek looking smartphone designed for the Enterprise, the ES4000 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA). "Motorola recognizes that mobile teams are the lifeblood of an organization, and empowering these teams with unmatched features and functionality to eliminate road blocks in the field is critical to an organization," said Gene Delaney, president, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. "The new ES400 EDA combines the best features of mobility, communications and task functionality without compromising performance or design – offering mobile workforces the ability to take action and capture information with a single click – in front of the customer where it counts most." Featuring a 3-inch VGA screen and full QWERTY keyboard, the ES4000 comes built around Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 platform. [......]
Logitech on Thursday unveiled a full lineup of HD webcams along with its Vid HD videoconferencing software. By combining one with the other, users are able to make 720p video calls, record in full 1080p HD, and upload HD content to Facebook and YouTube with a single click, Logitech says[......]
When the stars are aligned just right, TRENDnet's new TEW-691GR Wireless N Gigabit Router can hit speeds of up to 450Mbps, at least in theory. There are three external antennas broadcasting on the 2.4GHz spectrum, each one with three spatial streams to produce a record 450Mbps theoretical wireless throughput, TRENDnet says. You'll also find Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antennae technology to improve signal strength and boost wireless coverage[......]
Nevermind that the third Service Pack for Windows XP came out two years ago, or that XP itself is about two generations old. According to security risk and compliance management provider Qualys, out of the hundreds of thousands of PCs the company monitors, half of them are still running Windows XP SP2. [......]
Application whitelisting company Bit9 is saying something IT admins already know: corporate and government PC users need to do a better job of protecting their computers from malware. [......]
In a new reported titled "A Landscape View of Online Software Purchasing 2010," the NPD group says that nearly two-thirds of all online software purchases in 2010 where digital downloads, up slightly from 2009. Digital downloads accounted for 23 percent of online purchases, compared to 22 percent one year ago[......]
According to market research firm Gartner, about 80 percent of IT organizations turned a blind eye to Vista, opting instead to stick with Windows XP, an eight-and-a-half-year-old operating system. Is it time to make the jump to Windows 7? [......]
HP's Social Computing Lab said it's busy developing Gloe , a cloud service that allows users to tag, search for, find, and bookmark pages relevant to their location. "HP Gloe is a geo-tagging experiment from HP Labs that attaches Web content to specific geographic locations, HP explains. [......]
Tibco, which develops integration software and messaging middleware solutions for enterprises, has overhauled its software line in a big way. "This is the biggest technology refresh in Tibco's history," said Rourke McNamara, senior director of global product marketing. The point of the upgrades was to expand the range of duties and work more closely together as an integrated stack, he added[......]
