Verizon opens 4G lab, venture-capital group ahead of LTE launch
Verizon Wireless is bringing together venture capital firms and network equipment vendors, as well as opening a lab for testing devices, as it tries to make sure its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) business hits the ground running.
Hacker leaks thousands of Hotmail passwords
More than 10,000 usernames and passwords [...]
Verizon Wireless is bringing together venture capital firms and network equipment vendors, as well as opening a lab for testing devices, as it tries to make sure its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) business hits the ground running.
More than 10,000 usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts were leaked online late last week, according to a report by Neowin.net , which claimed that they were posted by an anonymous user on pastebin.com last Thursday.
The post has since been taken down.
Brocade Communications Systems has hung a “for sale” sign on its door, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Brocade declined to comment on the report.
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have shown interest in buying Brocade, which make switches for routing data storage traffic, according to the report, which added that an agreement is not imminent.
Sponsored by IBM, Google, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), university researchers are gathering Monday to tout their respective cloud computing projects as part of the CLuE (Cluster Exploratory) program.
Mozilla has released a test build of Firefox that adds new technology designed to stymie most Web-based attacks, the browser maker said Sunday.
The technology, dubbed “Content Security Policy” (CSP), is a Mozilla-initiated specification targeted at Web site and application developers, who will be able to define which content on the site or in the online application is legitimate. That would block any script or malicious code that’s been added by hackers who manage to compromise the site or app. Such attacks are generally tagged with the label of cross-site scripting (XSS).
Vonage is expanding its horizons beyond delivering VoIP over broadband Internet, and hoping to expand its customer base and revenue at the same time. The new app from Vonage allows BlackBerry and iPhone users to place cheaper international calls from their mobile phones. It also highlights the shifting competitive landscape between previously separate technologies.
AT&T Monday announced two smartphones based on Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, HTC’s Tilt 2 and Pure. It also launched four new models it calls “quick messaging devices.” They include Pantech’s Reveal and Impact, as well as Samsung’s Mythic and Flight.
These days, companies are tempted to hang on to their notebook computers for a couple of years beyond the usual three-year lifecycle in order to avoid the capital expense of replacing them. But tech analyst Jack Gold has developed a cost model that casts doubt on that make-do strategy.
Salesforce.com and Cisco Systems on Monday announced an offering for small and medium-size companies that integrates Salesforce.com’s on-demand, customer-service software with Cisco’s unified communications technology.
The Customer Interaction Cloud is aimed at businesses with between 30 and 300 sales representatives or call-center agents.
Adobe Systems’ Flash Player is getting closer to appearing on smartphones, with Research in Motion adding its BlackBerry to the list of devices that will run the software. Apple’s elusive iPhone remains out of reach, however.
At its Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Adobe announced that a beta of its new Flash Player 10.1 software will be released by the end of the year for Windows Mobile and the Palm webOS, with betas for Google’s Android and the Symbian platform to follow early next year.
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