Intel promises SSD firmware fix
Chip-maker Intel has promised to supply a fix for a recently released firmware update, which once applied, bricked certain users’ SSDs (solid-state drives).
Who’s in charge of Android development: Google or developers?
Onlookers say that Google is in charge of Android development, despite pitching the software as a community project. But experts say [...]
Chip-maker Intel has promised to supply a fix for a recently released firmware update, which once applied, bricked certain users’ SSDs (solid-state drives).
Onlookers say that Google is in charge of Android development, despite pitching the software as a community project. But experts say that could be the only way Google can ensure that the software is actually released.
The Android development process may reflect a reality in the open-source environment, as some groups forego the community in an effort to speed commercialization.
Shortly after European regulators opened an antitrust probe into Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, SAP CEO Léo Apotheker wrote Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, asking for a meeting to discuss the merger and “other open issues” between the vendors, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial published late Thursday.
Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups. Competitors and observers have jeered when Microsoft put out a first basic product that didn’t come close to matching the market leader’s. But Microsoft has a history of stubbornly staying the course, refining its wares, investing in development, until gradually the products become strong enough to push out the competition.
When Microsoft first started talking about building mobile-phone software back in the late 1990s, handset makers that had been in the market for years scoffed. Sure, Microsoft was a huge software developer, but making software for mobile devices is different and more complicated than for PCs, they argued. After all, by the late ’90s, some companies had already spent decades developing their mobile platforms.
IBM has set up a center in Bangalore that will focus on offering high-end expertise to the business analytics market worldwide.
The center, called the Business Analytics Center of Competency, will have over 200 consultants in the area of business analytics who will interact with customers worldwide, said Simon Thomas, service line leader at IBM India for the global delivery of business analytics and optimization services.
ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages.
Gumblar can steal FTP credentials as well as hijack Google searches, replacing results on infected computers with links to other malicious sites.
Hoping to build on the success of netbooks like Acer’s AspireOne, Intel wants to prove that its Pine Trail chip package can do for desktops what the first Atom processors did for laptops.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved two bills that would require organizations with data breaches to report them to potential victims.
The Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve both the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act and the Data Breach Notification Act by large majorities.
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