A recap of a week of IT security news that included talk of acquisitions by CA Technologies and 3M as well as security moves by Facebook and Twitter. – Acquisitions, social network security and Google privacy were among the top
items on the menu in IT security news this past week.
CA Technologies started
the week off by announcing plans to purchase Arcot systems for its fraud
prevention technology. Arcot develops software-based digital signatu…
Microsoft’s week involved Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturing, a revival of its long-running legal case with i4i and the release of a Bing app for Google Android. – Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing on Sept. 1. After months of updates and rumors, this is the milestone that anticipates that most final of final steps: actual product release. Now Microsofts OEMs will integrate the software platform into their devices, which will reportedly debut …
Google said Sept. 1 Gmail users made more than 10 million calls through its new Call Phones from Gmail feature. The company provided tips on how to use the service with Google Voice. – Google said Sept. 1 Gmail users made more than 10 million
calls through its new Call Phones from Gmail feature since it launched a week
ago.
Launched Aug. 25, Call Phones from Gmail lets users place calls to contacts
directly from Gmail. Calls placed from Gmail in the United States and Canada ar…
Genting Singapore (G13.SG) remains most active stock in market, off 1.1% at $1.78 with over 221 million shares traded, biggest volume so far this week, says Dow Jones.
Investors keen to book some gains after run-up by as much as 14.4% so far this week fuelled by hopes earnings momentum will remain strong in coming quarters after return to profitability in 2Q10.
Former Wham! heartthrob George Michael has checked into rehab and is undergoing therapy for addiction to alcohol one month after he was arrested for crashing his Range Rover into a store near his home in Hempstead, North London.The “Careless Whisper” hitmaker appeared in court last week and pleaded guilty to marijuana possession and driving under [...]
Microsoft’s week involved the 15th anniversary of Windows 95′s official release, announcements about Windows Phone 7 and a Windows 7 study. – Aug. 24 marked the 15th anniversary of Windows 95′s official release.
Microsoft’s marketing blitz for the operating system was enormous: The Empire
State Building lit up in the company’s colors, the $300 million spent on everything
from newspaper advertisements to the massive launch event, the
R…
A recap of some of the major IT security news of the past week: Leading the way is a Pentagon official’s discussion of America’s cyber-security strategy and a 2008 incident he called the "most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever." – U.S.
cyber-security was in the spotlight this past week when a senior Pentagon
official confirmed an infected flash drive caused the quot;most significant
breach of U.S.
military computers ever. quot;
Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III discussed
the 2008 incident in an article for F…
Sean Penn is no RuPaul — even in lipstick and a fuzzy wig.The Milk Oscar winner shocked passersby on the streets of Dublin this week when he was spotted in drag for his role in an upcoming movie. Penn — who turned 50 last week — will be playing a wealthy, retired rocker who embarks [...]
Genting Singapore (G13.SG) off 3.1% at $1.54, but holding near last week’s 52-week high of $1.68, says Dow Jones.
While stock consistently among most active in Singapore, volume has come off substantially since reaching 15-month high of 682.8 million shares on Aug 13, day after gaming group announced return to profitability in 2Q10 with $396.5 million earnings.
Microsoft released previews of its Windows Small Business Server and Windows Home Server, saw analysts estimate Bing’s search-engine market share as flattening, and offered developers a series of Windows Phone 7 tutorial videos. – Microsoft’s progression toward a larger presence in the cloud and mobile
spaces continued this week, with announcements related to Windows Phone 7 and
the release of a new server build for SMBs (small to midsize businesses).
The
latest preview of Windows Small Business Server, code-named Aurora,…
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will visit Serbia next Thursday, said reports. He will discuss bilateral and European issues with Serbian officials, the spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry told Tanjug today.
Microsoft’s week involved the release its biggest-ever patch on Tuesday, a new "PC vs. Mac" Website, and talk about its strategy for both Windows Phone 7 smartphones and Windows 7 tablet PCs. – Microsoft had its biggest-ever patch on Tuesday, Aug. 10 and issued 14 new
security bulletins. Eight of those were rated quot;critical, quot; of which
four addressed high-priority vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Microsoft .NET
Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft’s MPEG Layer-3 audio…
Bad week to be a former Idol. American Idol alum Asia’h Epperson was arrested and charged with assault on Wednesday. According to on-site snoops, Epperson, 21, and her sister attacked an unidentified woman in the restroom of posh Los Angeles nightspot The Colony.In 2008, the Southern belle made it to the Top 16 on the seventh [...]
AAACK!! Cathy will soon join Orphan Annie as the latest casuality of “The Funnies Business.” The comic strip — which has chronicled the life and dressing room meltdowns of its eternally-single namesake for more than three decades — will come to an end this fall.This week, writer-illustrator Cathy Guisewite announced that she’s hanging up her sketch [...]
Microsoft’s week, which involved settling its patent-infringement lawsuit with Salesforce.com and adding new features to Bing Maps, demonstrated yet again the companys continued focus on the cloud. – Microsoft enjoyed some positive news this week, at least on the legal front:
the company announced Aug. 4 that it had settled its patent-infringement cases
with Salesforce.com, heading off what promised to be a protracted legal battle.
“Salesforce.com will receive broad coverage under Microsoft…
The rising importance of the Chinese economy in the world is indisputable. It is looking like a lasting legacy of the financial crisis that ushered in the severe recession that the West is struggling to recover from. The automotive news last week contained several items that, taken together, summarised the changing world order.
JD Power said last week that car sales in Western Europe last month recorded a seasonally adjusted annualised selling rate (SAAR) of just 11.1m units a a year – the worst figure since January 2009, before the scrapping schemes began boosting the market.
EUROPE: July car sales down 18.5%
And the US light vehicle market is running at an unspectacular 11.5m-12m annual running rate, even if July’s number actually constituted a relatively good overall market result.
US: July sales ahead year on year
Things are a little bit different in China. The vehicle market is now bigger than the US and is hitting new records. GDP growth is still running at something like 10% per annum, with Chinese consumers enjoying rising real incomes and the increased spending it allows. Domestic demand rather than exports of manufactured goods is now becoming a driver of economic growth in China. Maybe enthusiastic Chinese consumers will eventually play an important part in helping to create manufacturing jobs in the West.
What are the newly affluent Chinese consumers buying? It’s a long list, but at the top end we discovered last week that there is a taste for exotic Italian sports cars.
CHINA: Increased dealer numbers fuel major Lamborghini sales rise
And Chinese companies, many with good access to cash and soft-loans underwritten by the state, are beginning to flex their muscles on the international stage, a sign of their burgeoning ambitions.
Last week, Ford finalised the sale of its Volvo division to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group for US$1.8bn. Will it make much difference to the way Volvo Cars is actually run? There will surely be differences eventually though Geely has been at pains to make reassuring noises and emphasise that it is business as usual for Volvo. This is a very big and high-profile acquisition for a Chinese company. Beijing will be anxious to see that things run smoothly. So far, so good.
Microsoft executives touted the company’s cloud strategy and its plans for Windows 7 tablets during this week’s Financial Analyst Meeting. Microsoft also announced security software in conjunction with this years Black Hat USA conference, and offered a preview of Office for Mac 2011. – Microsoft’s week climaxed at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting, where
company executives reiterated their argument made previously at July’s
Worldwide Partner Conference that competition in areas such as the cloud and
tablet PCs is only just beginning. While Microsoft’s core businesses perform…
Microsoft is patching a Windows vulnerability being targeted by attackers. The zero-day bug was disclosed publicly this month. – Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch for a Windows security
vulnerability that attackers have been targeting for the past few weeks.
The bug a vulnerability in the Windows shell component that attackers have
been exploiting via malicious .LNK files has increasingly
become the target of ex…
Russia expects that a United Nations Security Council meeting on Kosovo would be held on August 3, according to diplomatic sources. Russia would begin presiding over the Security Council on August 1.
