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  1. Massive Data Breach in Utah State Servers Caused by Configuration Errors
    Revelations about a recent breach of confidential data in Utah highlights how configuration errors involving authentication and related areas can end up being costly. - Last week, the director of Utah's Department of Technology Services (DTS) resigned in the wake of a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 800,000 people to hackers believed to have been in Eastern Europe. The breach did not happen due to sophisticated malware however...
  2. Google Chrome Edges Out Internet Explorer for First Time
    Google Chrome, which became available on Android devices in February, became the world's most-used Internet browser for a week in May. In the U.S., however, Internet Explorer still dominates. - Googles Chrome squeaked ahead of Microsofts Internet Explorer for the full week of May 14 through 20, making it the worlds most popular browser for a full week for the first time, according to data from StatCounter, The Verge first reported May 21. The two Internet browsers have been set on ...
  3. HP Will Lose PC Crown to Lenovo but Remain a Leader: Analyst
    HP is expected to lose its PC crown to Lenovo soon, but its more effectively reorganized PC unit, its relationship with Microsoft and its commitment to China will help it to remain an industry leader, according to TBR. - Hewlett-Packard is likely to lose its title as the worlds top-selling PC maker to Lenovo during the second or third quarter of this year. Still, HP will generate larger profits than Lenovo, and both companies will execute well going forward, according to a May 21 report from Technology Business Rese...
  4. GitHub Delivers Windows Support, Courts Enterprise Developers
    GitHub announced GitHub for Windows, the first version of the GitHub Web-based project hosting service for Windows. Aimed at enterprise developers, it is available as a free download. - GitHub has announced the release of GitHub for Windows, which the company says is the easiest way to use the Git revision control system on Windows. GitHub is a Web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans ...
  5. iOS 6: 10 Features Apple's Mobile OS Needs to Impress Customers
    Apples iOS 5 platform is starting to get a little old. Although it launched less than a year ago, its showing its age as newcomers, like Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, have entered the market with some nice new features. The ball is now in Apples court either to stick with iOS 5 for the time being and try to improve it with an interim upgrade or offer up iOS 6 as an entirely new generation of the software. Given Apples history, its quite likely that the company will unveil iOS 6 at some point in the next month or two. A likely date would be during the Worldwide Developers Conference. So, rather than waste its time trying to improve an operating system thats about to be replaced, the company is probably devoting much, if not all, of its energy to iOS 6. While its hard at work on iOS 6, perhaps it would be a good idea to remind Apple about some of the flaws in iOS 5 and some of the things that most iPhone and iPad users would like to see in the new version of the mobile operating system. Apples iOS 5 platform is nice and all, but lets face it: Theres always room for improvement. Take a look at this slide show to find out what sorts of features should make their way to iOS 6 in order to impress todays iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners. - ...
  6. Cisco Grows Share of Expanding Ethernet Switch Market: IDC
    IDC analysts point to cloud computing environments as key drivers in the growth of Ethernet switches, particularly 10GbE switches. - Cisco Systems grew its dominant market share in the global Ethernet switch market in the first three months of the year, and also saw its share of the booming 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch market rise, according to market research firm IDC. Overall, the rapid adoption of cloud computing technologi...
  7. Microsoft Claims Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V Will Win Converts From VMware
    Microsoft touts enhancements in Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 with more secure multi-tenancy, higher performance and flexibility. A migration software vendor says this could move VMware users to Hyper-V. - Enhancements to Microsofts Windows Server 2012 beta, including to Hyper-V, are a match for VMwares capability and could give data center operators reason to switch from market leader VMware, experts said at a Microsoft IT workshop in Silicon Valley. Hyper-V in Server 2012 improves security and isol...
  8. Open Source Finds Its Way Into Mobile, Cloud, Big Data
    As the Open Source Business Conference gets underway in San Francisco, a survey shows that open-source software is contributing to development in some of the top IT trends of the day. - Mobile computing, cloud computing and analyzing huge amounts of data are among the top IT trends in 2012 and are also the focus of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012 that begins May 21 in San Francisco. About 40 percent of the new open-source projects started in 2011 were related to cl...
  9. Adobe ColdFusion 10: Ten Reasons Developers Need to Use It
    On May 15, Adobe Systems officially released Adobe ColdFusion 10 software, the companys premier server-side technology designed to allow developers to create more dynamic and interactive Web applications for enterprises using the Java Enterprise Edition (EE) platform. ColdFusion 10 now offers built-in support for HTML5 and helps boost performance using Tomcat integration and enhanced caching. With the new hotfix installer and scheduler, ColdFusion 10 Enterprise Edition allows enterprise developers to improve productivity, while strengthening authentication and encryption techniques to make Websites more secure. ColdFusion is relevant to not just existing developers but to any Web developer for its smart built-in solutions and the core benefit of productivity. For example, ColdFusion 10 Enterprise Edition application server is designed to rapidly build enterprise-ready Java–EE applications. Adobe ColdFusion 10 also works as a server-side technology designed to enable developers to create more dynamic and interactive Web applications for enterprises using the Java EE platform. ColdFusion was developed by brothers J.J. and Jeremy Allaire at the Allaire Corp. and introduced in 1995. Macromedia acquired Allaire in 2001, and in 2005 Adobe acquired Macromedia and inherited the ColdFusion technology. Here, eWEEK looks at 10 reasons Web developers should check out the latest version of Adobes software. - ...
  10. EMC Unveils Long List of New Cloud, Storage Products
    World's largest data storage, security and virtualization hardware and software company introduces 42 new products or services to a record 13,000 attendees at EMC World 2012. - Companies like EMC that have huge annual user/partner conferences are challenged each year to upstage what they did the year before. Well, what EMC revealed May 21 onstage at the Venetian in Las Vegas will be particularly difficult to top next year. This is because the world's largest data storage...
  11. EMC, VMware Partner on Storage Analytics for VNX Platform
    EMC's VNX storage intelligence suite will integrate with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite to offer integrated storage metrics. - Business analytics and information firm EMC and virtualization specialist VMware deepened their partnership, working together to integrate EMCs VNX storage intelligence with the analytics of the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. The sales and development agreement between the two compa...
  12. AMD Unveils Trinity-Based Embedded APUs
    The new chips will complement the G-Series products rolled out last year, and will target such devices as medical, video conferencing and retail systems. - Advanced Micro Devices officials are bringing their new Trinity chip offerings to embedded systems. The company on May 21 announced the Embedded R-Series accelerated processing units (APUs), based on the Trinity chips introduced earlier this month. The new Trinity APUs, which offer integrated x...
  13. iPhone 5 Will Be 'Completely Redesigned,' Resemble iPad: Analysts
    The iPhone 5 is expected to arrive in October featuring a “completely redesigned body style,” say analysts. Meanwhile, the iPhone 3GS will be marketed to the developing world. - A “completely redesigned” Apple iPhone 5 will arrive in October, according to analysts with Piper Jaffray. There have been a lot of conflicting reports about when the new iPhone would arrive but the analysts are “confident,” in their time frame, according to the May 21 research note. Jefferies ana...
  14. EMC Releases DataBridge Enterprise Management Software
    EMC focuses on enhanced data management with its DataBridge platform, which allows businesses to create widgets for combining data analytics. - At EMCs World 2012 conference, the company unveiled the DataBridge enterprise management software platform, which converges IT operations data from disparate silos of information, providing performance metrics to businesses with the aim of offering enhanced visibility and control over their physical...
  15. Sigma Systems Unveils Cloud Service Broker SaaS Platform
    The platform provides SMBs with end-user portals, order management, and provisioning and billing integration across a suite of SaaS service offerings. - As small and midsize businesses look to reduce costs and speed operations through software as a service offerings, Sigma Systems is launching the Cloud Service Broker, which is designed to manage all on-network business services, including voice over IP and high-speed broadband, as well as cloud-bas...