The Glider

Microsoft wasted no time taking some very public jabs at Google's privacy-policy controversy. - Microsoft wasted no time swiping at Google over its recent privacy controversy. Starting March 1, Google will fold 60 of its 70 existing product-privacy policies into one blanket policy. Users cannot opt out. Under the auspices of its new policy, the search-engine giant will also treat any user wit...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is scheduled to launch later this year. And when it does, consumers and even enterprise users can expect to adopt it fairly quickly, without the significant holdouts such as Microsoft faced with Vista. - The anticipation surrounding Microsoft's upcoming launch of Windows 8 is running high. The company's operating system is easily the biggest departure from earlier versions Microsoft has ever launched, and it could very well be the answer to Apple's iPad and Android-based tablets in the mobile ma...

NEWS ANALYSIS: In the wake of Apple's black eye from the reports of poor working conditions at its Foxconn contract manufacturing operations in China, there is at least one company that's willing to pay close attention to how its production workers are treated. - After writing an article about rising concerns over the working conditions in the factories operating in China by Foxconn, Apple's contract manufacturer for iPhones and iPads, I heard from readers about a number of points. First, there are a lot of readers who think Apple's profit margins are o...

Wave Encryption Service from Wave Systems is a cloud service designed to make it easier to implement encryption on endpoints and manage policies across the organization. - Wave Systems has launched a cloud-based encryption management service to help organizations enforce encryption policies on all laptops across the enterprise. The Wave Encryption Service (WES) supports multiple encryption technologies, including file- and folder-level software encryption and Mic...

In conformance with recent SEC guidance on disclosing security issues that may have adverse effects on the company's bottom line, Facebook identified hacking and spam as ongoing issues. - Facebook outlined some of the security risks and compliance issues the company faces on the social networking platform and related services that could impact its operations in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. After months of intense speculation, Facebook filed S-1 doc...

When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook with an expected post-IPO valuation about $100 billion would represent the largest stock market debut for a U.S. company in nearly four years. - Facebook, which is barely eight years old but will record its 1 billionth registered user sometime this spring, filed an application Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock potentially worth $10 billion or more. When the stock is issued at some...

Attackers targeted executives in the defense industry and government officials with fake invitations to conferences to install the MSUpdater Trojan to steal sensitive data. - Researchers discovered malware that has been used in targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations since early 2009, according to IT security companies Seculert and Zscaler. The email messages containing the malicious attachments masqueraded as fake c...

AccuRev announces Kando, a new platform that integrates the open source Git software configuration management (SCM) system with commercial SCM platforms. - AccuRev, a maker of tools for managing the software development process, has released a platform that integrates the open-source Git revision control system with commercial enterprise configuration management systems. AccuRevs new Kando, an enterprise security and compliance platform for Git, c...

ShoreTel's acquisition will enable the conpany to add hosted UC solutions to its on-premise offerings. - ShoreTel continues to grow its unified communications capabilities through acquisition, announcing Feb. 1 its intention to buy M5 Networks for $146 million, a move that will enable ShoreTel to offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions. M5 Networks, a 12-year-old company headquartered in New Y...

Apple's iPad 3 will feature a quad-core A6 processor, according to a new posting from the Boy Genius Report blog. - Apples iPad 3 will feature a new A6 processor, according to a Feb. 1 posting on the Boy Genius Report blog. BGRs information came from an unnamed source, who in turn provided screenshots of “output from an iPad 3 using a development and debug tool called iBoot.” Based on those screens, the iPad...