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  • 14 June 2013

  • News: IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer

    In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs.

  • News: Obama directs agencies to move toward sharing spectrum

    U.S. President Barack Obama has directed federal agencies to take new steps toward sharing their wireless spectrum with commercial operators, in an effort to meet growing demands for mobile data services.

  • News: Oracle to ship 40 security fixes for Java SE

    Oracle is set to release a patch set for Java SE that targets 40 security vulnerabilities.

  • News: Federal regulators address rising security risk to medical devices

    Issues recommendations, noting existing 'vulnerabilities ... that could directly impact medical devices or hospital network operations'

  • News: Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store

    Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers.

  • News: For OS X Mavericks, the best is yet to come

    The big splash at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this week was iOS 7, the next-generation mobile OS that will ship this fall. The other new operating system announced at WWDC--OS X Mavericks--made significantly fewer waves (despite its being named after one of the biggest surfing meccas in California). But you can't judge the size or significance of an update solely by the number of features that were previewed.

  • News: Coherent regulation needed for Cloud services: ACMA

    Apps, smartphones and the demand for access to content and media anywhere and on any device has led to 71 per cent of Australians using a Cloud service, whether they know it or not, according to a study by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

  • News: Australia's IT services market transitions: IDC

    Information technology is growing exponentially and the combined potential of mobile broadband, mobile smart devices, Cloud, social media and big data are drastically disrupting the IT services industry, according to analyst firm, IDC.

  • News: Banks will stick with COBOL because Java has performance issues, claims quality guru Bill Curtis

    Bill Curtis, one of the people involved in developing the global standard for measuring the quality of software (CMM), has said that banks will stick with monolithic COBOL mainframe applications because they don't have the same security and performance issues as Java.

  • News: HANA puts SAP at risk of being a modern tech vendor with aging business apps

    SAP's in-memory platform HANA puts the software giant at risk of becoming a modern technology vendor with aging business applications, where it needs to ‘create a vision' of how a 21st century enterprise will operate, aided by in-memory technology.

  • 13 June 2013

  • News: WWDC: What we didn't see

    The keynote event that kicked off Apple's 2013 Worldwide Developer's Conference was jam-packed with announcements: iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, a new Mac Pro, new MacBook Airs, new apps like iBooks and Maps for Mac, and more.

  • News: Windows 8 Update: Microsoft teams with Best Buy to boost Windows 8 sales

    Microsoft is placing Microsoft Stores within about half the U.S. Best Buy locations and creating a parallel online store on the Best Buy site in an effort to drum up more consumer business, it seems, for Windows 8.

  • News: Spy-proof enterprise encryption is possible, but daunting

    Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data encryption technologies is not an easy task, according to security experts.

  • News: Happy Father's Day to my dad, the hobbyist programmer

    I found out recently that I'm not the only member of my family to appear in the illustrious pages of the IDG family of publications, of which Network World is one. In 1983, sister site InfoWorld reviewed my dad's Home Finance System – a personal accounting program that competed (albeit briefly) with Quicken – and I happened to stumble across the article via a Google Books search. (It's on page 31. Apparently, InfoWorld liked it.)

  • News: US FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity

    Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said.

  • News: Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress

    Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

  • News: Microsoft Launches New Embedded OS to Harness the Data of Devices

    Microsoft has unveiled the latest version of its Windows Embedded CE operating system-Windows Embedded Compact 2013-to help organizations capture the data of programmable logic controls and machine-human interface panels.

  • News: How Facebook Hashtags Impact Your Privacy

    Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and other social networks, Facebook finally gets hashtags. Here's what you need to know about the new feature and a look at how it does--and doesn't--impact your privacy settings.

  • News: First look: Hands-on with iOS 7

    iOS 7 won't come out until the fall, but since its unveiling at Monday's WWDC keynote it's been the talk of the Apple world.

  • News: Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress

    Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

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