Datamation Staff

Bloomberg: As part of his visit to China, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited a newly built Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China. The Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park manufactures the iPhone and employs more than 120,000 people. Apple has recently been focusing on improving working conditions at its Chinese suppliers’ factories. Earlier in the week, Cook met […]

PCWorld: Adobe has announced the release of Flash Player 11.2, which includes important security patches and adds a new silent update feature. The release addresses two security vulnerabilities which hackers could use to trigger memory corruptions or to execute arbitrary code remotely; however, Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for the […]

ZDNet: Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie has announced that the company will release more pieces of its ASP.NET development framework under an open source license. Already, the company had open sourced ASP.NET MVC, and now it will make the ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (a.k.a. “Razor”) available under the Apache 2.0 license. […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Box Inc. has launched a new cloud computing service for business users. OneCloud, as it is known, will allow users with iPhones or iPads to access more than 30 business applications, including Quickoffice, PDF Expert and EchoSign, in the cloud. The company hopes to expand the available applications soon. Software makers like IBM […]

Computerworld: Research firm Gartner is predicting that the software as a service (SaaS) market will grow 17.9 percent this year to reach $14.5 billion. They expect that growth trend to continue through 2015 as potential customers become more familiar with how SaaS works and vendors offer more PaaS products. The firm says that North American […]

ZDNet: Chinese authorities have arrested a man surnamed Zeng whom they believe leaked personal information belonging to more than 6 million users of the China Software Developer Network (CSDN). The hack, considered one of the biggest ever in China, likely occurred before July 2010. Zeng posted the data online on December 21, 2011. It included […]

Wall Street Journal: As part of a motion asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia, Facebook has released the text of emails between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Ceglia, which were sent while Zuckerberg was a student at Harvard. Ceglia claims that he owns a 50 percent stake in Facebook based on […]

Computerworld: HP has announced the next generation of its ProLiant servers, which the company claims can boost performance by 50 percent for online transaction processing (OLTP), streaming video and other popular applications. The new servers will feature solid-state drives (SSDs) which use its Dynamic Workload Acceleration data caching algorithm for better performance. In addition, they […]

Los Angeles Times: After several months of no activity, the hacker group LulzSec has struck again. The group apparently hacked a military dating site called MilitarySingles.com and has posted online 170,937 e-mail accounts belonging to members of the military. The Pentagon has not commented on the severity of the data leak. The group publicized the […]

The New York Times: U.S. security firm Symantec has dissolved a four-year-long partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies. According to unnamed sources, Symantec worried that the relationship would prevent it from being able to access classified U.S. government information on cyberthreats. The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin sharing some such data with network providers […]

Computerworld: Some of the world’s largest multinational IT companies have sent a letter to the Obama administration complaining about “unprecedented delays and uncertainty” around L-1 visas. L-1 visas allow companies to transfer employees from foreign offices to American offices. Critics charge that the L-1 visas harm American workers, and in 2011 the U.S. rejected 27 […]

Washington Post: Last week, reports surfaced that a growing number of employers were asking job applicants for their Facebook passwords during the interview process. Now, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have sent letters to the Department of Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, asking them to investigate whether the practice […]