Datamation Staff

The New York Times: At a Silicon Valley dinner last year, President Obama reportedly asked Steve Jobs, “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Jobs cryptically responded, “Those jobs aren’t coming back.” Why can’t iPhones be made in the United States? The answer goes far beyond the cheap labor available in […]

Fortune: Fortune has published its annual list of the best companies to work for, and this year Google tops the list. It’s been in the top slot before, but last year, it dropped to number four. Googlers love the company’s culture and the perks. “Employees are never more than 150 feet away from a well-stocked […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Google’s quarterly results failed to meet analysts’ expectations, leading to a swift decline in the company’s stock price. Google reported revenue of $8.13 billion, which fell short of the expected $8.41 billion. Similarly, the $9.50 profit per share also did not meet expectations of $10.50 per share. “Google looks more mortal this quarter,” […]

Computerworld: For the fourth quarter of 2011, IBM reported revenue $29.5 billion, a 2 percent year-over-year increase. Net income rose 4 percent over the previous year to hit $5.5 billion. Those results fell just shy of analysts expectations of $29.71 billion in revenue and $5.6 billion in net income. “So, 2011 was another very good […]

ZDNet: The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched DDOS attacks that shut down the websites for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America, and Universal Music. They also claimed or threatened to launch attacks against several other sites, but those were operating normally at the […]

DailyTech: According to research from Nielsen Mobile, sales of iOS and Android phones were nearly tied in December. Apple captured 44.5 percent of the smarthone market, while Android had 46.9 percent. As recently as October, Android phones had outsold iPhones 61.6 percent to 25.1 percent. Analysts say the popularity of the iPhone 4S should receive […]

All Things D: Unnamed sources “close to the situation” tell Kara Swisher that Yahoo has enacted a hiring freeze and may soon begin layoffs. Any layoffs that come are expected to be small and selective. Yahoo will announce quarterly earnings next week. While the company has reportedly made some improvements in its bottom line, sources […]

BBC News: Security vendor McAfee says it will release a patch for its cloud-based Total Protection service by the end of the day Thursday. Earlier this week, a British art firm that uses McAfee’s SaaS to protect its networks discovered that their servers were sending out the equivalent of 10 months’ worth of e-mail traffic […]

ABC News/Associated Press: On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled more than 60 new apps for the social network that will automatically post content to users’ timelines. The “frictionless sharing” apps report users’ interactions with various services–for example, songs they have listened to, articles they have read, etc.–without requiring users to do anything beyond an initial signup. The […]

Haaretz: Israeli hackers with the group IDF-Team have successfully launched another attack in the ongoing cyberwar between hackers in Isreal and Saudi Arabia. IDF-Team hit the websites of both the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). They were able to halt trading on the Tadawul exchange and delay trading on […]

Cloud computing offers many advantages, yet businesses contemplating migrating must be aware of the many pitfalls involved. An industry expert details five essential points to ponder as you make the switch. by Paul Carmody of Internap Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible […]

InformationWeek: Microsoft appears to be positioning itself to take on the major vendors in the private cloud computing market–IBM, HP, BMC Software, CA Technologies and VMware. The company announced plans to release its System Center 2012 cloud management suite within the next six months, and it made release candidates or beta versions of all the […]