Wired reports:
You can’t use Apple iCloud yet. When you can, which should be this fall, you’ll notice something really peculiar: Unlike other music lockers, iCloud can’t stream music to you over the internet or a cellular connection. Instead, it downloads the files to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or iTunes-enabled computer, where you can play them from local memory.
This was such a surprising decision by Apple that, in the heat of the moment, some journalists initially reported that iCloud would in fact stream music. We weren’t the only publication to fall prey to this (and we posted a correction nearly immediately).
Even today, a Google search for “iCloud streaming” returns over one million results — and yet there will be no such thing. So, why won’t Apple stream music from iCloud, when every other music locker, past and present, does?
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Google went on the defensive about its business practices on Friday as it acknowledged that is the subject of a government probe.
The Federal Trade Commission formally notified Google this week that it is investigating the company, Google acknowledged in a blog post. Google did not disclose the nature of the inquiry, and said it’s “unclear exactly what the FTC’s concerns are.”
LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks, said it was disbanding.
“For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could,” the group said Saturday in a statement posted on multiple websites. It did not cite a reason.
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Bussiness Week Reports
An unexpected drop in hardware sales, following Oracle’s bullish predictions in March, suggests lower-than-anticipated gains from the software giant’s Sun acquisition
Oracle Corp. dropped in late trading yesterday after reporting a decline in hardware sales, fueling concern the top maker of database software may not be benefiting as much as predicted from its Sun Microsystems Inc. acquisition.
Hardware sales declined 6 percent to $1.16 billion, Redwood City, California-based Oracle said in a statement yesterday. The company had forecast in March an increase of 6 percent to 12 percent. Shares fell as much as 7.5 percent in extended trading.
Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison bought Sun last year to capitalize on demand for the servers and databases used in data centers. While the hardware results may reflect Oracle’s effort to pare less-profitable machines from the lineup, they were disappointing enough to overshadow better-than-predicted performance in profit and sales of new software licenses.
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BusinessWeek reports:
During an interview at Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Palo Alto headquarters, Todd Bradley, the head of the $41 billion PC group, is, as always, full of praise toward his microprocessor suppliers. Intel (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are “important partners,” he says. Then he holds up a TouchPad, his company’s first tablet computer, which is powered by a Qualcomm (QCOM) chip and HP’s in-house operating system, webOS. It goes on sale July 1, starting at $500. “The AMD-Intel thing,” he says, “I think that’s kind of over.”
Stunning as it is to hear a PC executive essentially declare the end of the Wintel era, HP had no choice but to distance itself from the Microsoft-Intel ecosystem. For years, HP used its supply chain prowess to lead a commodity PC market, and eke out 8 percent operating margins. Now, in the age of mobile, HP’s margins are down to 5 percent or 6 percent. The TouchPad is part of a big gamble that began last year with HP’s $1.3 billion purchase of Palm and webOS: to build an ecosystem of its own, despite a landscape littered with the carcasses of others that tried.
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From Inc. Magazine:
Social networking. The big corporations have bought into it. Smaller companies, too. Even independent consultants use Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook to do business. It is a great way to get the word out about your product or service. It boosts brand awareness, it builds loyalty, and it attracts and retains customers.
But more companies are exploring ways to get a bigger pay off with social media. The next frontier of social networking and weblogging is social blogging. This ever-changing construct represents a way of communicating for people who like to inform each other about their daily activities and share common points of interest, according to Wikipedia authors Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, and Susan F. Henssonow. This is usually done through continual updates that often include text, pictures, audio, or video.
In general, you want to use social media to increase your visibility, improve your search engine results, and drive more traffic to your company’s website, which stands a good chance of increasing sales and growing the business. Social blogging is simply another tool to add to your overall social media strategic toolkit.
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CIO Insight reports:
For a long time, the greatest threat to your company’s security was in the form of desktop-based malware. Cybercriminals around the world create programs and other malicious services that can wreak havoc on your network and steal important data.
With the growing use of mobile devices in the enteprise, a new threat is emerging. Not only do you need to worry about devices being stolen, but malware on mobile products is becoming a growing issue. Google’s Android operating system, Symbian, and even iOS are all bigger targets than ever for cybercriminals.
That was made abundantly clear in McAfee’s 1Q 2011 Threats Report, which reveals that mobile threats are on the rise. And you need to be prepared before trouble erupts. Read on to find out about the current state of mobile malware and how these trends might impact you and your company going forward.
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There are some good tips in this article by Technology Reports:
IT organizations naturally want to put a great deal of resources behind intrusion protections, as well they should. But investment in preventative controls can only take us so far. There always exists a chance that a breach can occur. For this reason, some resources should also be directed to systems designed to lessen the blow should prevention fail.
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