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(Reuters) – Telecoms company Sprint Nextel Corp will temporarily deactivate the accounts of laptop broadband users if they consume more than their allotted share of data while roaming, the Wall Street Journal reported. Sprint is changing its data service policies for laptop users with mobile broadband cards or USB modems, Mark Elliott, a company spokesman […]

SAAS applications are becoming a more substantial part of many companies’ IT infrastructure, according to a new research note by Gartner, but a number of companies are taking their “bad practices” from on-premises software into the cloud with them. However, along with that adoption, a number of companies have started engaging in the same “bad […]

Google confirmed the program was one of 50 to 200 experiments the company regular runs on its Websites all over the world. Now Google, which threw its hat into the social media ring with Google Buzz, is toying with human curation on its normally algorithmically-generated Websites. Participating publications are not paying to place their links, […]

The service includes the Security Requirements Gap Analysis, which provides clients with access to security expertise and the tools to fix and avoid security issues. This capability examines applications to identify technical security requirements imposed by relevant laws, regulations or practices. The solution also includes the Architectural Threat Analysis, which is aimed at reducing client […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it would step up scrutiny of online security and privacy issues following recent security breaches involving Apple Inc’s iPad and Google Inc’s collection of private data by its Street View cars. The FCC announcement on Friday comes one day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it […]

Twitter has made it clear it wants to add analytics capabilities for its eventual paid accounts, and the microblog took a step in that direction June 10 by snapping up Smallthought Systems. Twitter acquired the startup for Trendly, which Twitter analytics lead Kevin Weil described as a “tool that helps Websites distinguish signal from noise […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to drive down the cost and expand the customer base of its Halo telepresence products through a partnership with Vidyo. Through the partnership, which was announced June 9, HP will integrate Vidyo’s VidyoConferencing software into HP PCs and other products to offer high-definition desktop video conferencing over enterprise networks. READ MORE >>

Microsoft issues a security advisory in response to the publication by a Google employee of attack code for a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The vulnerability, uncovered by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy, affects “the Windows Help and Support Center function that is delivered with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003,” Microsoft […]

(Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe into a security breach of Apple Inc’s iPad that exposed personal information of AT&T Inc customers, including those of several high-ranking government officials. The breach, first reported by the website Gawker, occurred when a group calling itself Goatse Security hacked into AT&T’s iPad subscriber […]

Although he has taken a fair amount of criticism for it, one of basketball coach Phil Jackson’s greatest strengths is knowing how to treat his top performers. As head coach of the six-time world champion Chicago Bulls, Jackson had what came to be known as the “Jordan Rules.” Simply stated, it meant Michael Jordan was […]

(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired through its $1.2 billion Palm buy earlier this year, a senior company official said on Wednesday. “You will see us coming early next year with new phones,” Senior Vice President Eric Cador told an industry conference. HP bought Palm, […]

SAN FRANCISCO June 9 (Reuters) – Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) said on Wednesday recent changes to Apple’s developers agreement would effectively cripple Google’s advertising tools for the iPhone, creating "artificial" barriers to competition. Apple changed the language of the agreement on Monday. As written, it appears to prohibit certain third-party ad agencies from collecting critical usage […]