Archive for ‘January, 2012’

E-invoicing: Basware acquires First Business Post

E-invoicing: Basware acquires First Business Post

Basware takes for 12.2 million euros, the First Business Post Ltd., also known as 1stbp in the market. The transaction will increase with Basware especially in the business with international key accounts in the automotive sector. Among the users of First Business Post, including Audi, BMW, Daimler, MAN, Volkswagen and its supplier network. Other mainstays [...]

Salesforce.com brings former CIO of the U.S. Government

Salesforce.com brings former CIO of the U.S. Government

Salesforce.com has appointed Vivek Kundra as Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets. Kundra became known as the first Chief Information Officer of the United States. In this capacity, he managed technology investments worth over 80 billion dollars. In addition, he has established himself as author of the Cloud strategy of the U.S. Government (PDF) and [...]

U.S. censorship: Google and Craigslist protest against SOPA

U.S. censorship: Google and Craigslist protest against SOPA

with Google, Wikipedia and Craigslist have three of the largest sites in the United States called on its users to protests. You should complain to their MPs about two among other rights of managers promoted bills. While the online encyclopedia, blocked up to information pages on the controversial laws SOPA and PIPA for 24 hours [...]

Report: Android Market in China remains unlikely for now

Report: Android Market in China remains unlikely for now

An anonymous source of Inside Mobile Apps has contradicted a report in the Wall Street Journal, Google wants to present itself again in China, more and start there also an offshoot of the Android Market. The Android Market will “probably not in the near future” to start in China. It was “in the exploratory phase.” [...]

Protests against SOPA and Protect IP Act are effective

Protests against SOPA and Protect IP Act are effective

yesterday’s online protests against the proposed legislation and SOPA have PIPA can buckle apparently numerous members of Congress. Members of the U.S. Senate and jump in the House of Representatives seems to support the proposed copyright laws to subside. At last count at least 18 members of the U.S. Senate have deserted, seven of whom [...]

CeBIT: Free wireless internet throughout the fairgrounds

CeBIT: Free wireless internet throughout the fairgrounds

Together with the Yellow Pages service sector is the German trade fair visitors to the AG of 6 to 10 March in Hannover CeBIT held free wireless access throughout the fairgrounds provide. “In order for the CeBIT is the largest free Wi-Fi hotspot in the world,” said Frank Pöschmann, head of division for CeBIT at [...]

Hewlett-Packard Windows Appoints Veteran Bill Veghte chief strategist

Hewlett-Packard Windows Appoints Veteran Bill Veghte chief strategist

Hewlett-Packard has appointed Bill Veghte, with immediate effect as Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, should the former head of Microsoft’s Windows division to determine the overall corporate strategy and take care of both the cloud and WebOS Open Source initiatives. He also continues as executive vice president in charge of the business software and [...]

January’s Patch Tuesday: Oracle closes 78 vulnerabilities

January’s Patch Tuesday: Oracle closes 78 vulnerabilities

On the first Patch Tuesday in 2012 Oracle has announced 78 partly fixed critical vulnerabilities in its products. These included errors in the MySQL database, Oracle Database, Solaris Operating System, and in VirtualBox. According to Oracle 16, the gaps could be exploited to perform remote attacks without authentication. For example, could attack without a username [...]

New developer version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 released

New developer version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 released

Apple has made registered developers build 11D42 one week after another pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 available. It is available as a delta and combo update for its desktop and server version of Lion. Tester Build 11D46 operating system updates, according to 9to5Mac continue on the areas of Address Book, iCal, icloud Document [...]

New developer version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 released

New developer version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 released

Apple has made registered developers build 11D42 one week after another pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 available. It is available as a delta and combo update for its desktop and server version of Lion. Tester Build 11D46 operating system updates, according to 9to5Mac continue on the areas of Address Book, iCal, icloud Document [...]

U.S. censorship: Google and Craigslist protest against SOPA

U.S. censorship: Google and Craigslist protest against SOPA

with Google, Wikipedia and Craigslist have three of the largest sites in the United States called on its users to protests. You should complain to their MPs about two among other rights of managers promoted bills. While the online encyclopedia, blocked up to information pages on the controversial laws SOPA and PIPA for 24 hours [...]

January’s Patch Tuesday: Oracle closes 78 vulnerabilities

January’s Patch Tuesday: Oracle closes 78 vulnerabilities

On the first Patch Tuesday in 2012 Oracle has announced 78 partly fixed critical vulnerabilities in its products. These included errors in the MySQL database, Oracle Database, Solaris Operating System, and in VirtualBox. According to Oracle 16, the gaps could be exploited to perform remote attacks without authentication. For example, could attack without a username [...]

Report: Android Market in China remains unlikely for now

Report: Android Market in China remains unlikely for now

An anonymous source of Inside Mobile Apps has contradicted a report in the Wall Street Journal, Google wants to present itself again in China, more and start there also an offshoot of the Android Market. The Android Market will “probably not in the near future” to start in China. It was “in the exploratory phase.” [...]

Salesforce.com brings former CIO of the U.S. Government

Salesforce.com brings former CIO of the U.S. Government

Salesforce.com has appointed Vivek Kundra as Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets. Kundra became known as the first Chief Information Officer of the United States. In this capacity, he managed technology investments worth over 80 billion dollars. In addition, he has established himself as author of the Cloud strategy of the U.S. Government (PDF) and [...]

E-invoicing: Basware acquires First Business Post

E-invoicing: Basware acquires First Business Post

Basware takes for 12.2 million euros, the First Business Post Ltd., also known as 1stbp in the market. The transaction will increase with Basware especially in the business with international key accounts in the automotive sector. Among the users of First Business Post, including Audi, BMW, Daimler, MAN, Volkswagen and its supplier network. Other mainstays [...]