The Glider

NEWS ANALYSIS: LightSquared, the hard-pressed company that wants to build a Satellite LTE network, is complaining that the government conducted interference tests in secret and used obsolete and niche devices. - The people who run LightSquared are not happy campers. Of course, they have plenty of reasons for this particular winter of discontent, but in the case of the military testing of LightSquared's interference with GPS devices, they might have a reason. The government testers, the company claims, h...

EnterpriseDB delivers its Postgres Plus Cloud Database with support from CloudBees, Engine Yard and others. - EnterpriseDB, a provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services, announced the general availability of the Postgres Plus Cloud Database on Amazon Web Services. Postgres Plus Cloud Database is an enterprise-class PostgreSQL database as a service (DBaaS). Enterprise...

It seems every IT function can now be offered on-demand. Verdasys is launching its enterprise data leak protection system, Digital Guardian, as a managed security service. - Verdasys is moving its data leak prevention portfolio to the cloud to help enterprises protect their data stored on its networks and still reduce costs. The company introduced two new offerings Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection (MISP) and Verdasys Information Protection as a S...

Microsoft's Windows 8 on tablets will utilize hardware sensors in a number of ways, perhaps none more important than apps. - Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will appear on both traditional PCs and tablets. However, as the company gears up to release the operating system's beta in February, followed by the final version sometime in the second half of 2012, it's increasingly clear that tablet functionality is a prime con...

The $120 million Intel will spend to buy RealNetworks' video codec software and 190-plus patents will enable the company to grow the video capabilities of it chips. - Intel officials are looking to bolster the multimedia capabilities of its chips by buying video software and a host of patents from RealNetworks. In the deal announced Jan. 26, the giant chip maker said it will spend $120 million to buy RealNetworks next-generation video codec software as well ...

Health plan Kaiser Permanente has introduced an Android application to allow patients to access their electronic health records. - Health plan Kaiser Permanente has launched an Android version of its electronic health record platform to allow patients to access their medical data on the popular Google-powered devices. KP is a health insurer with member facilities in nine states and the District of Columbia, although it is conc...

AT&T's chief privacy officer says the 24-hour deadline to notify customers of a data breach that is set by new European Union data privacy regulations is "absolutely unworkable" and would end up forcing companies to notify all possible customers about a breach rather than just those affected. - New data privacy regulations being implemented by the European Union will present serious complications for U.S. companies doing business in Europe, according to an IT security and data privacy executive who took part in a panel at the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C. ...

AT&T executives were effusive during a fourth-quarter earnings call, announcing iPhone sales 77 percent higher than Verizon's and a new industry record for smartphone sales. - AT amp;T activated 7.6 million Apple iPhones during its 2011 fourth quarter and sold 9.4 million smartphones in total. This made it not only AT amp;T's best-ever quarter for Apple and Android smartphone sales, but the best-ever quarter for smartphone sales in the history of the industry, AT amp;T CF...

HP's webOS software will be available under an open-source license by September. Will other companies use the platform for their own projects? - Hewlett-Packard plans on making the webOS source code available under an open-source license by September, according to the company. As part of that ramp-up, HP is releasing version 2.0 of Enyo, the webOS developer tool. Developers using the tool will have the ability to write webOS applications su...

Google is testing ways to whittle down the latency inherent in TCP connections Web browsers make to request and retrieve data. The company's work is available via open source. - It's no secret it behooves Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to support efforts to make the Web faster, as a faster Web means the company can serve more searches, YouTube videos and other content. Google, which built a Domain Name System to help Web pages load faster, is looking at other ways of accelerating da...