As for Google, he acknowledged them as a “genuine competitor” in Microsoft’s core businesses of Windows and Office, but said that Google Apps isn’t necessarily a stronger product than others such as OpenOffice or StarOffice.
Ballmer was not similarly tongue-tied when it came to talking about his optimism for technology, his thoughts on the economy, or his company’s competition with Apple and Google.
“They’ve done a very good job of marketing to th
Amazon.com Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels described in a blog Amazon’s vision for the service:
All Internet-bound traffic is routed through the customer’s network and outbound security systems before reaching the public network, Barr said.
Not all Amazon Web Services capabilities are supported in Amazon VPC at the start, such as Amazon EC2 security groups, DevPay AMIs, and Internet-facing IP addresses. The VPN service has been tested with equipment fr
Oracle is touting its alliance with Sun.
Oracle is of course a software company, and one of its biggest challenges in acquiring Sun will be embracing hardware as well, even if it’s in some subordinate role that mostly serves as a delivery vehicle for the software. Hardware still takes immense resources to design, qualify, test, manufacturer, and support to compete on the level of IBM and HP.
Notable here is that Oracle is helping preserve the value of the asset it hopes
LAS VEGAS–In one of a handful of SMS-related presentations here at the Black Hat security show, researchers demonstrated on Thursday how they can force certain types of smartphones to visit a malicious URL or install an app without user approval.
The attack works on GSM networks, the men said, adding that they had not yet tested it on CDMA networks.
(Credit:
Elinor Mills/CNET News)
Phone owners can test their phone to determine if they are af
Collaborative-storage provider Box.net on Tuesday announced that it had acquired Mountain View, Calif.,-based Increo Solutions, a company with two Web products: Embedit.in and Backboard.
Embedit.in, which was launched in June, lets users post and share their documents in the cloud using an Adobe Flash-based viewer. And Backboard, which is the company’s only paid product, lets users get feedback and collaborate on projects using that same document viewer.
In
• First, iLounge’s source says Apple has created three different prototypes. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that two previous prototypes were killed for battery and memory problems. Though the iLounge source says the first version’s 7-inch screen was judged to be too small, it doesn’t give the size of the second version. The third prototype apparently has a 10.7-inch screen.
• It’s not a Netbook, but supposed to be a replacement for full-sized books,
Listen to my interview with Echometrix CEO Jeffrey Greene
At my request, the company provided a link to a Web page where parents can opt out of the collection process.
Spyware?
David Perry of TrendMicro, which includes parental control tools in some of its security products, said he isn’t aware of any other parental control products that capture this type of information. “This is a severe case of what we used to call spyware,” he said. Perry worries that even though
There are also reports that the same thing is happening with the Friendfeed app, which quite complicates things since many people give Friendfeed itself access to their Twitter feeds.
Consensus seems to be that a Facebook bug is causing the platform to ignore users’ “off” settings on their Twitter and Friendfeed apps. A solution is to block the offending applications (Twitter, Friendfeed) from accessing your profile.
Twitter previously developed a Facebook
One of the things that factors into what ends up on Thoora’s front page is real-time chatter. The company tracks how many news-related tweets there have been about that topic in the last hour, as well as “Twitter impact,” which is a percentage of density about that topic per 500 messages across all of Twitter over the past hour. It also tracks things like blog comments and linkbacks.
(Credit:
Josh Lowensohn/CNET)
One of the service’s more interesting tricks is th
Some have scoffed that they’d never see the day when the two Silicon Valley titans pause the rivalry long enough to cooperate on a project. The truth is that they need each other, at least this time. Google needs to fill its Android application storefront with popular titles to stay relevant, and Facebook needs to ensure that mobile users can continue accessing core functionality from any device. It would be overstating the issue to suggest that, in one sense, they both need each other to bea
