Intel eyed McAfee for years, Gelsinger says

The company long considered McAfee or Symantec acquisitions to leverage CPUs in security
By Stephen Lawson
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
SAN FRANCISCO (08/26/2010) – Intel considered acquiring either Symantec or McAfee for years before it announced last week that it would buy the latter, former Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday.
Gelsinger, now president [...]

Indian e-voting researcher released on bail

The government pressed Hari Prasad on how his team obtained a stolen voting machine
By John Ribeiro
IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau)
BANGALORE (08/29/2010) – An Indian security researcher who was arrested on Aug. 21 for the alleged theft of an electronic voting machine (EVM), was released on bail on Saturday by a magistrate in Mumbai.
Hari Prasad told [...]

SAP accepts liability in Oracle lawsuit

SAP accepts liability in Oracle lawsuit
It says it is willing to pay tens of millions of dollars in damages, but not the billions Oracle is seeking
By James Niccolai
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
SAN FRANCISCO (08/05/2010) – SAP said it would accept liability for some claims made by Oracle in a suit that alleges theft of [...]

In lawsuit, XPRT says it gave eBay the idea to buy PayPal

The company is suing eBay for $3.8 billion for alleged patent infringement
By Nancy Gohring
IDG News Service (Seattle Bureau)
SEATTLE (07/13/2010) – A company called XPRT Ventures has sued eBay for patent infringement, asking the court for US$3.8 billion in damages.
XPRT claims that by pitching its technology to eBay, it gave the auction site the idea that [...]

Researchers: Password crack could affect millions

Cloud computing environments make ‘timing attacks’ more viable, researchers say
By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)

SAN FRANCISCO (07/15/2010) – A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference.
Researchers [...]

Cloud tools give Microsoft partners a jump-start

The move aims to help partners deploy and support cloud-based offerings
By Joab Jackson
IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
WASHINGTON (07/14/2010) – Microsoft is giving its partners tools that could help drive more business to its cloud-based services.
At the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference, being held this week in Washington, the new Microsoft channel chief unveiled programs [...]

Facebook calls ownership contract a ‘forgery’

Social network amps up rhetoric in lawsuit over company ownership
By Sharon Gaudin
Computerworld (US)

FRAMINGHAM (07/23/2010) – Facebook is going one step further in its verbal battle against the man who says the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg signed away ownership of 84% of the social networking site seven years ago.
A spokesman for Facebook said in [...]

What Could You Do With a $35 Tablet?

The $35 tablet prototype from India challenges the industry to rethink what might be possible with a disposable mobile PC.
By Tony Bradley
PC World (US)
SAN FRANCISCO (07/25/2010) – India unveiled a prototype of a tablet PC it hopes to sell for $35 or less. Assuming India can find a partner to mass-produce the tablet and can [...]

Panasonic to unveil consumer 3D camcorder next week

It will be the first 3D video camera from a major manufacturer
By Martyn Williams
IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)

TOKYO (07/21/2010) – Panasonic will next week unveil a camcorder for consumers that is capable of recording images in 3D.
The camcorder, details of which are not yet available, will be shown at a Tokyo news conference scheduled for [...]

Early version of MeeGo for phones released to developers

A final release of the open source phone software, which combines Intel and Nokia projects, will appear in October
By Nancy Gohring
IDG News Service (Seattle Bureau)
SEATTLE (06/30/2010) – MeeGo, a Linux project combining Intel and Nokia software, released an early version of the mobile phone OS to developers on Wednesday. MeeGo combines Intel’s Moblin software with [...]

Cisco announces business tablet

Cisco’s Cius business tablet will run on an Intel Atom processor
By Agam Shah
IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
NEW YORK (06/29/2010) – Cisco on Tuesday announced the Cius tablet, a handheld device designed to help users run business applications and communicate in real time. The tablet comes with a 7-inch touch screen and is powered by [...]

Obama wants to free up 500MHz of spectrum

A new White House plan follows up on recommendations in the FCC’s broadband plan
By Grant Gross
IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON (06/28/2010) – The U.S. government will work to free up 500MHz of wireless spectrum for commercial and unlicensed uses over the next decade, an adviser to President Barack Obama said Monday.

US trade panel to investigate S3 complaint against Apple

S3 Graphics asks the USITC to block the import of iPhones, iPads and other Apple products
By Grant Gross
IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON (06/25/2010) – The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched a formal investigation into four patent complaints filed against Apple by computer graphics hardware maker S3 Graphics, which asked the agency to block [...]

NFC sees light at end of the tunnel with transit projects

As city transit systems adopt NFC, Nokia and other vendors are getting ready to announce compatible phones, says analyst
By Mikael Ricknäs
IDG News Service (Stockholm Bureau)
STOCKHOLM (06/25/2010) – Short range communication using NFC (Near Field Communication) circuitry embedded in mobile phones has had a difficult journey to market, but it may soon see light at the [...]

Hundreds wait in line as iPhone 4 goes on sale in Japan

Apple’s latest smartphone went on sale Thursday, with Japanese customers among the first to buy them
By Agam Shah
IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
NEW YORK (06/24/2010) – The iPhone 4 went on sale in Japan on Thursday morning, as Japanese customers who waited in long lines became among the first to purchase the latest smartphone from [...]