Saturday, March 12, 2011

Jittery Notes From Tokyo - One IT Manager's Earthquake Experience

Jittery Notes From Tokyo - One IT Manager's Earthquake Experience

Jittery Notes From Tokyo - One IT Manager's Earthquake Experience

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:04 PM PST

From the 39th floor of a new office building in downtown Tokyo, Appirio cloud computing's director of Japanese operations Jason Park shared with TechNewsWorld his harrowing, moment-by-moment account of Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake, a mere 150 miles away from the temblor epicenter. Park and colleagues "saw other high-rise offices and apartments visibly shaking," he wrote. "It was hard to stand without losing my balance." The earthquake started small -- "with mild tremors, but this happens every few months," he recalled. "We didn't think anything of it until the tremors didn't stop."

Microsoft to Deploy IE9 in Browser War Hot Zone

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PST

On March 14, just days after Google released a new version of its Chrome browser -- and right before Mozilla is set to unwrap its latest edition of Firefox -- Microsoft will be unleashing Internet Explorer 9 into the wild, adding to the next chapter in the hotly contended browser wars. It's the first major update to Microsoft's Web browser in nearly two years, and it aims to attract users back to its platform with several new enhancements added to version 9. The new version of Internet Explorer brings a completely new interface.

Who Are the FOSS Police?

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PST

More than 70 percent of mobile applications containing open source code fail to comply with basic open source license requirements, OpenLogic claims. The company scanned compiled binaries and source code where available for the top paid and free Android and iOS apps in the business and consumer sectors. Of the 635 it viewed, 66 contained Apache or GPL/LGPL licenses. Of these, 71 percent contained violations of those licenses, according to the company. OpenLogic did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

iPhone Security: Priceless

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PST

The Android operating system continues to grow in popularity and the options it offers also have grown tremendously. Diversity can be a wonderful thing, but it may be coming at a cost in the form of a security risk. That's right -- everything you do on your phone is risky if you don't play by the rules. So what are the rules? The rules are that you sign up for and stick to an expensive carrier plan and use the phone's features and approved apps as they were designed to be used. Sideloading, or transferring files directly from your computer to your Android phone, puts the phone and everything you do on it at risk.

Microsoft Could Muscle Back Into the Mobile Market

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PST

The turmoil surrounding Microsoft's efforts in the mobile market last year and the spectacularly rapid changes in this sector has raised concern about the company's hopes of ever catching up to the competition. Product miscues and a loss of high-profile personnel have contributed to the perception. Robbie Bach, who headed Microsoft's entertainment division, stepped down in May, just when Redmond unveiled two new Kin smartphones. These devices were pulled in July on what was rumored to be particularly poor sales.
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