Computerworld - Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and several server and development products, but as it hinted last week, did not come up with a fix for the Internet Explorer (IE) bug that cyber criminals have ...
Tags: Microsoft, security updates, Windows, cyber criminals
IDG News Service - As TVs get higher resolution and bigger displays, while getting cheaper over time, cable operators may be able to cover an entire wall of your home with a screen that includes two full-size TV shows plus weather, upcoming ...
Tags: cable operators, TV, Cisco Systems, tablets, computer
Most of the tablets, TVs, ultrabooks and smartphones on display at International CES this week ultimately are bound for someone's home, where they'll have to talk to each other. Six major home networking technologies to make that happen ...
Tags: tablets, TVs, ultrabooks, smartphones, WiFi, WiGig, WirelessHD, MOCA 2.0, G.hn
LEGO has revealed the latest iteration of its programmable robotic construction kit Mindstorms at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Mindstorms, first released in 1998, is designed to make robotics accessible for kids and adults. ...
Tags: LEGO, robotic construction, Consumer Electronics Show, toys
IDG News Service - A famed iPhone hacker has developed a fresh way to jailbreak Apple's iOS 6 operating system in order to install unauthorized apps, but he says he won't release it. David Wang wrote on Reddit that he discovered several ...
Tags: iPhone, operating system, software, App Store
The Ford Focus ST has blown onto the hot-hatch scene. Will it cause a hurricane to rip through the rock-solid Volkswagen Golf GTI and Renault Megane RS265? Words: Jez Spinks. Photos: Chris Brasher. Hands up if you still think you can only ...
Tags: Ford Focus ST, car, Volkswagen Golf GTI, new car
Computerworld-Apple today unveiled the iPad Mini,a smaller tablet starting at$329 that features a 7.9-in.1024-x-768-pixel display and can run all existing iPad software without modification. The company also revamped the 9.7-in ...
South Korea-based Hyundai Motor and its subsidiary Kia Motors America (KMA) have added the Google Maps application programming interfaces (API) to the Hyundai Blue Link telematics platform to improve car connectivity. Features of the API ...
Tags: Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors America, KMA, Google Maps, API
Computerworld-NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod,a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)based on its predecessor,FlexPod. ExpressPod follows two previous iterations of the pre-configured ...
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IDG News Service - Apple released on Sunday an update that fixes a problem where the iPhone 5 draws data from the carrier Verizon despite being connected to a Wi-Fi network. Apple's advisory said the scenario happens "under certain ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone 5, Wi-Fi network, smartphone
The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge. ...
Tags: European Union, ARM Holdings technology, ARM Chips, Supercomputing Edge
Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...
Tags: Visual Studio, IDE, Microsoft, Windows 8
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom could violate the terms of his bail, or face new criminal charges, if he launches a new file-sharing and storage service as planned, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing this week. Dotcom, ...
Tags: DOJ, Dotcom, criminal charges, storage service
When David Anderson published From Worst To Best In Nine Months, he thought he was writing a Microsoft case study about something called "Drum Buffer Rope." Turns out that Anderson was also in the process of defining Kanban for software ...
Tags: David Anderson, Microsoft, Kanban Method, Software Development
Computerworld - Symantec Tuesday announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times by using VMware's vMotion data migration capabilities. The new version of ...
Tags: Symantec, Veritas Cluster Server, virtual machine, VMware's vMotion