Datamation Staff

The New York Times: Following a wave of scrutiny, Apple supplier Foxconn has promised to increase salaries and reduce overtime for workers at its Chinese factories. Foxconn employees will see their pay rise as much as 25 percent to about $400 per month. Observers say that the current economic model relies on low-paid workers to […]

Los Angeles Times: Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer has published a report that claims Google circumvented iPhone privacy restrictions and tracked Safari users’ online activities. According to the report, Google found a way to trick the mobile browser into accepting cookies from advertisers. Lawmakers have expressed concern that Google may have violated an earlier agreement […]

Forbes: Physicists from the University of New South Wales have accomplished an incredible feat of engineering: they created a working transistor from a single atom of the phosphorous-31 isotope. Even more amazing, the scientists were able to position the transistor exactly where they needed it to be–within 10 nm. Scientists say that one-atom transistors like […]

Computerworld: On Wednesday, Adobe issues a patches for seven critical vulnerabilities for its Flash player, including one zero-day cross-site scripting flaw identified by Google. “This update resolves a universal cross-site scripting vulnerability that could be used to take actions on a user’s behalf on any website or Web mail provider, if the user visits a […]

Wall Street Journal: Apple has unveiled the latest version of its OS X operating system for desktop Macs. Codenamed “Mountain Lion,” the new release borrows a lot from Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS. “We see that people are in love with a lot of apps and functionality here,” said CEO Tim Cook, gesturing to his […]

NetworkWorld: According to (ISC)2’s 2012 Career Impact Survey, only seven percent of information security professionals had been unemployed at any point in 2011. Those who had been laid off quickly found new jobs, as less than four percent of those surveyed (80 out of 2,256) were out of work at the time of the survey. […]

DigiTimes: Intel has notified laptop makers that, while it still plans to begin shipping its Ivy Bridge laptop processors in April, large scale shipments of the new processors will not begin until June. Both Intel and PC manufacturers continue to have large inventories of the older model Sandy Bridge processors, and Intel will not ramp […]

InformationWeek: Cisco has asked the European Commission (EC) to revisit the conditions tied to its approval of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype. Cisco warns that Microsoft’s plan to integrate Skype tightly into the Lync unified communications platform will stifle competition. It argues that the EC “should have placed conditions that would ensure greater standards-based […]

Cnet: According to Gartner’s latest data, Apple captured 19 percent of the smartphone market in 2011, making it the top smartphone vendor for the year. While some researchers put Samsung at number one, Gartner believed the firm was just edged out by Apple. “Western Europe and North America led most of the smartphone growth for […]

NetworkWorld: HP and Intel have developed a new chip-slotting technique that reduces the possibility of error when upgrading server processors–and that reduces the likelihood of system failures. Called “Smart Socket technology” the new system uses a clamp on the motherboard to install chips into the sockets correctly. “You never drop the processor down, we mechanically […]

Los Angeles Times: Just days after the developers behind the Path app ran into trouble for storing contact data, Twitter has acknowledged that its mobile apps store users’ contact lists for up to 18 months after users tap the “Find friends” feature. Twitter’s current privacy policy does not make clear that the apps upload and […]

All Things D: According to Juniper Networks, hackers created 28,500 pieces of mobile malware in 2011. That’s more than double the 11,000 pieces of malware that targeted mobile devices in 2010. More than 46 percent of that malicious code targeted Android devices, and 41 percent aimed for Java ME. Thanks to its strict app approval […]