Datamation Staff

PCMag: Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone manufacturer, has announced plans to eliminate 4,000 jobs at three factories in Komarom, Hungary; Reynosa, Mexico; and Salo, Finland. Instead, the company will move smartphone assembly to plants in Asia. “Shifting device assembly to Asia is targeted at improving our time to market,” Nokia’s Niklas Savander. “By working […]

InformationWeek: On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services announced that it would lower prices for customers of its S3 cloud computing storage service. The price for the first terabyte of storage will drop by 11 percent; prices for 50TB and 100TB will fall 12 percent and 13.5 percent, respectively. As a result, S3 storage prices will now […]

CNN: Adding to the growing wave of criticism about conditions in Chinese factories that produce Apple products, CNN has interviewed a Foxconn employee who works on the iPad line. Speaking under a pseudonym, “Miss Chenn” said, “Foxconn employees have a saying, ‘they use women as men and men as machines.’” Chenn said that she was […]

Computerworld: Security vendors Prolexic and Arbor Networks are reporting that DDoS attacks rose 45 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011. They said that many of those attacks were characterized by shorter attack duration, but  bigger packet-per-second attack volume. The companies also reported a growing number layer-7 DDoS attacks, which target particular Internet facing applications […]

Fierce Mobile Content: The CEO network TechNet is reporting that the “App Economy” has created 466,000 jobs in the United States since 2007. Those jobs include programmers, user interface designers, marketers, managers and support staff at app development firms, large tech companies and enterprises. The state with the most app-related jobs is California, but the […]

eWeek: Indian hacker Yamatough has publicly posted the code for Symantec’s pcAnywhere product following a series of negotiations in which the security vendor offered to pay $50,000 to keep the hacker quiet. Symantec says the negotiations were part of its investigation into the matter. According to Symantec’s Cris Paden, “The email string posted by Anonymous […]

All Things D: One of the longest, most vicious tech industry lawsuits ever is about to repeat itself. Oracle has opted for a re-trial of its case against former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow. Oracle originally won a $1.3 billion judgment in the case, but a judge knocked the award down to $272 million because she said […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: According to market research firm IDC, manufacturers shipped 158 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011–a 55 percent year-over-year increase. Much of the credit for those increased sales goes to Apple, which shipped 37 million iPhones during the period. Apple claimed the top spot on IDC’s market leadership chart, followed by Samsung, […]

ZDNet: India’s highest court has ruled that 21 Internet companies must present plans for blocking objectionable content within the next two weeks. Despite earlier arguing that it was impossible for them to censor content that flowed through their services, Facebook and Google say that they have already complied with the order and have begun blocking […]

SlashGear: The latest build of Windows 8 contains neither the “start” button from earlier versions of Windows or the “orb” from Windows 7. Despite the lack of a visible button, Windows 8 users can still access the start button features by hovering their mouse cursor over a hotspot in the lower left corner of the […]

eWeek: In its latest Worldwide Black Book report, IDC reports that, in 2011, IT spending grew 5 percent when viewed at constant currency rates ; it grew 9 percent in U.S. dollar terms. Double-digit spending growth in emerging markets, particularly Brazil, Russia, India and China, helped overcome weakness in other parts of the world. Enterprises […]

Financial Times: Unnamed sources familiar with Facebook’s plans say the company intends to put advertisements on its mobile apps very soon. Reportedly, the company has approached advertising agencies with proposals for “featured stories” that could go live as soon as March. In its recent IPO filing, Facebook admitted that it lacked “meaningful revenue” from its […]