Larry Barrett

Qualcomm’s dominance of the cell phone market is fairly well-established, but it’s not stopping there. The company has designed to get beyond just signaling and into the processing space with its Snapdragon CPU. Datamation has the details on the company’s expansion plans. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs believes that as much as wireless technology has already […]

It’s a fine thing when business and philanthropy work at common purposes. For Nokia, the push to deliver advanced mobile technology to the developing world figures to play a major role in the handset giant’s plans for 2010, an effort that it hopes will at once open lucrative markets while improving the quality of life […]

LAS VEGAS — Netflix on Thursday announced a series of distribution deals with five major electronics manufacturers ensure the next generation of Blu-ray disc players and HDTVs will be embedded with its streaming service for movies and TV episodes. Netflix made the pacts official here during the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Now Netflix’s streaming service […]

With social networking on the rise, it’s no wonder that major brands are looking for ways to co-opt the trend. Some of those successes were on display at this week at CES in Las Vegas. Datamation takes a look LAS VEGAS — Social media has changed the way people look for jobs, share pictures of […]

Ford’s Alan Mulally took the stage at CES today to highlight what’s next to come for Sync, the company’s in-car entertainment and information platform. Ford uses Microsoft technology — now branded as Microsoft Auto — as the basis for Sync, which has been deployed on models for almost two years. Now, the U.S. automaker is […]

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2010 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show here Wednesday night by looking back at some of the software giant’s biggest successes in 2009 and unveiling an HP-manufactured “slate PC” that will be available “later this year.” Long before Ballmer took the stage, the the […]

Colleges continue to be popular targets for hackers, who crave their Internet access, processing power and data, according to this report from eSecurityPlanet. Eastern Washington University this week is notifying more than 130,000 current and former students that their personal information — including Social Security numbers and birth dates — may have been accessed by […]

Oracle continues on its acquisition streak to fill out the product lineup. Today’s acquisition adds to its offerings in the data quality and integrity department, something important for databases and applications handling petabytes of data. Datamation has the details. Oracle on Monday announced it will acquire Silver Creek Systems, a Westminister, Colo.-based developer of data […]

EMC is beefing up its IT governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) capabilities with the acquisition of Archer Technologies, according to Enterprise Storage Forum. For EMC, it’s just the latest move away from its core data storage business as it tries to position itself as a player in the broader data center and IT management […]

The security of social networks is once again in the spotlight. eSecurityPlanet reports on a suit against RockYou a provider of widgets for social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace. An Indiana man has filed a class action lawsuit against RockYou, alleging it failed to protect the personal data of more than 32 million customers. […]

With hackers feasting on social networking sites — and the historically laissez faire attitude of its users — Twitter is taking matters into its own hands by issuing a list of passwords it deems inadequate for safeguarding users accounts. eSecurityPlanet.com details some of the prohibited passwords and the legitimate security issues Twitter and other social […]

McAfee trades in enterprise IT and consumer security wares, and as a result, has its fingers firmly on the pulse of digital threats. Not surprisingly, the company is forecasting that some of the most popular services, software and technology is in malware authors’ sights. eSecurity Planet takes a look. New operating systems, social networking sites, […]