The guide recommends completing a privacy and security audit of all data collection activities, including cloud services. – The Online Trust Alliance, a nonprofit organization
representing the Internet ecosystem, announced the release of the quot;2011
Data Breach Incident Readiness Guide, quot; outlining key questions and
recommendations to help businesses with breach prevention and incident
management. In the wake …
The new beta version of Mac OS X 10.6.6 outlines rules for application developers, including a ban on demos. – Computer maker Apple announced the second beta of Mac OS X 10.6.6, with support for the forthcoming Mac App Store, which also includes new rules for developers, most notably a ban on trial versions of applications destined for the company’s online application storefront. The instructions were posted…
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s four-point outline of the net neutrality proposal calls for a "level playing field." – In a press conference where he compared the Federal Communications
Commission to a quot;cop on the beat quot; protecting an open and free
Internet, Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out the general framework for a net
neutrality proposal he said was designed to empower consumers and
entrepreneur…
Oracle sheds light on the upcoming Solaris 10 operating system and pledges to deliver an Express version of the OS by the end of 2010. – SAN FRANCISCO — At Oracle OpenWorld 2010, the database and systems giant assured its base of Solaris customers that the operating system is not going anywhere and shared a roadmap for Oracle Solaris 11.
Indeed, John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle, said Oracle is increasing…
The PCI Security Standards Council’s proposed revisions for PCI DSS include additional guidance and clarifications to existing requirements in areas such as data discovery and virtualization. – The PCI Security Standards Council released a document Aug.
12 outlining proposed clarifications to be added to the future version of industry
regulations.
The PCI SSC document
highlights several revisions slated to appear in the 2.0 versions of PCI DSS
(Payment Card Industry Data Security Stan…
Six months after completing the deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, Oracle officials say Solaris 11 will arrive in 2011, and SPARC performance will at least double every other year through 2015. – Oracle will release the next version of the Solaris operating system in 2011,
and will double the performance of its SPARC processors every other year.
Those were some of the highlights of an Aug. 10 Webcast presentation by John Fowler,
executive vice president of systems for Oracle, outlining …
In a new document, the White House has outlined its plan for strengthening authentication and identity verification on the Web. – The White House has published a draft of a strategy designed to
make the concept of trusted identities and authentication
more of a reality in the digital world.
In a 39-page document (PDF)
entitled the quot;National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace quot;
(NSTIC), the White Ho…
A memristor, basically a resistor with memory, seems to have more capabilities than anybody knew. HP Labs reports finding that a memristor can perform logic, potentially enabling computation to be performed in chips where data is stored. This could mean a radical change in the way IT is designed and built.
– At the Flash Memory Summit in August 2009, updates
on several new
technologies involving NAND flash were presented to conference attendees.
One of them was given by Stan Williams, Hewlett-Packard senior fellow and director
of Quantum Science Research, and it involved something called the
quot;…
Oracle executives, including President Charles Phillips, EVP of Hardware Engineering John Fowler and EVP of Product Development Thomas Kurian, addressed a standing-room-only audience at Oracle’s on-campus auditorium here on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay.
– REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises,
Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java,
Solaris and the Zettabyte File System and its 27,600 employees in…
President Boris Tadić said that Serbia’s foreign policy priorities are the EU, the country’s sovereignty, regional cooperation and economic diplomacy. Tadić addressed the Ambassadors’ Conference in Belgrade on Tuesday and said that the success of Serbia’s foreign policies is an articulation of relations with big world powers such as Russia, America, and China.
The National Broadband Plan task force cites a number of challenges hamstringing widespread broadband adoption, including limits on the Universal Service Fund and a growing demand for spectrum. The task force faces a Feb. 17 deadline for submitting a broadband plan to Congress.
– Significant gaps in several areas of the broadband ecosystem must be closed
before the United states
can fully take advantage of universal high-speed Internet services, according
to the Federal Communications Commission task force charged with developing a
national broadband plan.
The task fo…
The carrier plans to deploy High Speed Packet Access 7.2 technology in six markets by the end of 2009. AT T also says it will build about 2,000 new cell sites, add backhaul capacity and increase the number of its Wi-Fi sites.
– AT amp;T Sept. 9 promised increased speeds for its 3G network in six U.S.
cities by the end of the year as part of the rollout plans for its HSPA (High
Speed Packet Access) 7.2 technology. The first targeted cities include Chicago,
Dallas, Houston,
Los Angeles, Miami
and Charlotte, N.C.
Acco…
McAfee lays out its plans to expand its software-as-a-service business with an eye toward gaining traction among enterprises. To back up its talk, McAfee announces the addition of Web filtering and vulnerability assessment to its SAAS portfolio.
– It’s no secret that adoption of software as a service is growing,
particularly when it comes to security.
All of the major vendors have made a push around cloud-based services, Symantec
with the acquisition
of MessageLabs and Trend
Micro with its Smart Protection Network pitch. Now it’s McAfee…
