Archive for ‘January, 2012’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Survey: Cloud Computing in 2012 remains a top trend of the ICT industry

Survey: Cloud Computing in 2012 remains a top trend of the ICT industry

cloud computing, mobile computing, IT security and social media are the most important IT trends of 2012. This is the result of at least one recent survey of high-tech association Bitkom in the ICT industry. This multiple answers were possible. According Cloud Computing occupied with 66 percent of the responses for the third consecutive year [...]

Red Hat provides Enterprise Virtualization 3.0,

Red Hat provides Enterprise Virtualization 3.0,

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 introduced an improved hypervisor. As a partner, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and NetApp were involved. An analyst at IDC called the move as a turning point for kernel-based VM hypervisor (KVM) – and also for Red Hat’s cloud strategy. Red Hat itself claims that the new platform offers the [...]

Amazon Web Services Launches NoSQL database DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services Launches NoSQL database DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services has made a DynamoDB NoSQL database available as a cloud service. According to CTO Werner Vogels, the company uses it for 15 years and even she has continuously developed. They have for example used in the turbulent Christmas. “DynamoDB is designed for seamless scalability without the administration,” says Vogel. The cloud-based alternative [...]