Datamation Staff

eWeek: CompTIA’s latest IT Industry Business Confidence Index finds that enterprise IT departments are putting off hiring because of economic uncertainty, and when they do try to hire, they are having trouble finding enough qualified applicants. According to the report, 54 percent of IT firms are understaffed by five percent or more, and 22 percent […]

Washington Post: According to a new report from the CTIA, the U.S. is now home to 327.6 million mobile devices. That’s a 9 percent increase in the first half of the year, and it exceeds the 315 million people who live in the country. The report also found that the average U.S. residence contains 2.6 […]

Cnet: A BlackBerry service outage that began in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on Monday spread to South and North America on Tuesday. U.S. users have been complaining that e-mail has been delayed and delivered in batches. BlackBerry maker RIM blamed the original outage on a faulty backup switch. “Although the system is designed […]

Silicon Filter: Google engineer Steve Yegge apparently wanted to post a rant on his employer’s problems for other Google employees to read, but it instead it went public. Here are some key pieces of his criticism of Google+: “Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook […]

InformationWeek: IBM is adding to its portfolio of cloud computing products by purchasing Canadian vendor Platform Computing. Details of the acquisition were not made public, but IBM did say that it expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of this year. Platform Computing makes products that help manage distributed computing infrastructure, as well […]

The Inquirer: A new report from Chitika Insights says that the Gooogle+ social network has lost about 60 percent of its active users. Google opened the new service to all users on September 20 — the same time that Facebook rolled out some new changes to its interface. During the few days that followed, membership […]

Wall Street Journal: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, AMD and Nvidia are teaming up to create a new supercomputer that should be more powerful–and more energy efficient–than existing systems. Called “Titan,” the system, which should be completed next year, will harness the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to acheive more than 20 petaflops, or a […]

CNN: The Defense Department has confirmed an earlier story from Wired that revealed that the IT systems that control U.S. military drones have been infected with a virus. However, a Defense official said the malware has not “stopped flights worldwide.” The virus reportedly records pilot key strokes, and officials aren’t sure how it was contracted […]

InfoWorld: A company called 3LM has been developing enterprise security features for Android-based devices that rival those on iOS and BlackBerry devices. Because 3LM was acquired by Motorola Mobility and Motorola Mobility is being acquired by Google, Google will soon have the ability to offer this technology to Android users. However, 3LM doesn’t plan to […]

Mobile Burn: According to the latest comScore report, Apple’s iPad accounts for nearly all of the Web browsing from tablets in the U.S. — 97.2 percent to be exact. It seems that iPad owners also do more browsing than iPhone owners: 46.8 percent of all iOS Web traffic comes from the iPad, compared to 42.6 […]

eWeek: A new report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) says that federal agencies are not doing a good job of preventing security breaches. According to the report, federal agencies experienced 41,776 security incidents in 2010, up from 5,503 in 2006, for a 650 percent increase. “Of the 24 major agencies, none had fully or […]

Wall Street Journal: According to leaked documents, the U.S. government sought and obtained a court order which allowed it to access the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum. The orders were issued to Google and ISP Sonic.net under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The act allows law enforcement to obtain information stored in email […]