Datamation Staff

CBS News: 60 Minutes has posted the video and text from its interview with Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson. Isaacson explains that he believes the late Apple founder was profoundly affected by his adoption, that he felt he was special because his parents picked him out. “I was, I remember right here on the lawn, […]

Mashable: Google accidentally gave Youtube users a preview of some changes coming to Gmail when the company posted a video overview to the site earlier than it intended. According to the video, the new Gmail will offer a new look, will dynamically resize to fit any screen, will make conversations more readable, will include profile […]

Computerworld: Earlier this week, BlackBerry maker RIM announced plans for a new mobile operating system it calls BBX, but now a New Mexico software company says it has already trademarked BBx. The firm, Basis International, registered the trademark on July 4, 2006, in the field of “Computer programs and associated documentation providing tools and programming […]

The Guardian: The Irish data protection commission will audit Facebook in order to follow up on claims that the social networking company violated privacy laws. The charges come from Max Schrems, who requested that the company send him all of the data they had about him. In response, Schrems received 1,200 pages of data, including […]

BBC News: The forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson sheds some light of Jobs’ opinion of Google’s mobile operating system Android. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this,” Jobs said. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, […]

PCWorld: Security researchers from vendor ESET have issued warnings that the TDL4 rootkit is getting better at avoiding detection by antivirus software. The newest version creates a hidden partition at the end of a hard drive and sets it to active. That makes it more difficult for antivirus software to find the malware. Even before […]

Apple Insider: Mobile device management vendor Good Technology has released a new report which states that 61 percent of enterprise smartphone users who utilize Good’s software have an iPhone, compared to 39 percent who have an Android device. Among enterprise tablet users, a whopping 96 percent have an iPad. The report notes that use of […]

InfoWorld: At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, Gartner vice president David Cearley told attendees that enterprise IT is at a critical juncture. In order to be successful over the next five years, he says that IT departments need to be preparing for the following technology trends now: Media tablets and beyond Mobile-centric applications and interfaces Social […]

The Telegraph: Mobile processor maker ARM has announced a new chip that uses very little power, greatly extending battery life. Called the A7, the new chip will also be very inexpensive, allowing smartphone makers to offer devices that cost less than $100 for capabilities that rival today’s top-of-the-line phones. ARM calls this new technology “big.LITTLE” […]

Mashable: Rapper MC Hammer has announced that he is launching a new search engine called WireDoo. At a launch event, he explained that his engine will differ from Google and other competitors by offering “deep search” that takes into account the relationships between key words. He says his team has been working on WireDoo for […]

SlashGear: A new survey conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) finds that 30 percent of enterprises that use the BlackBerry platform plan to switch to another mobile platform next year. Only 14 percent of BlackBerry users surveyed said they were happy with their device. By contrast, 44 percent of iPhone users are happy with their […]

Bloomberg: For the first time in six years, Apple earnings failed to meet analysts expectations, causing the stock price to fall. The company announced that it earned $6.62 billion, or $7.05 a share, in its fourth fiscal quarter, missing analysts’ average expectations of $7.31 a share. One key reason for the lower-than-expected profits was the […]