The Glider

Apple's iPhone 5 will feature a 4-inch screen and a different casing from the iPhone 4, according to a new report from the blog 9to5Mac. - Apples upcoming iPhone 5 will feature a bigger screen and a different casing from the iPhone 4, suggests a new posting on the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac. According to the Jan. 25 reports “reliable source at Foxconn in China,” the various prototypes circulating around that production facility s...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple posted a massive fiscal fourth quarter that saw record-breaking iPhone sales during the period. All the indications are that the company will continue to report quarter after quarter of massive earnings as long as it can continue to release innovative products. - Apple on Jan. 24 announced a record-breaking fiscal first quarter for the 14 weeks ended Dec. 31. The company earned a $13.06 billion profit on revenue of $46.33 billion. What's more, Apple sold 37 million iPhones and 15 million iPads. The quarter showed once again how important Apple is to the ...

Strong demand in Symantec's backup, data archiving, data loss prevention and managed security services boosted third-quarter income up 82 percent to $240 million. - An quot;increasingly toxic threat landscape quot; and quot;unprecedented information growth quot; boosted Symantec's fiscal year third-quarter performance as enterprises and consumers snapped up security and storage product bundles designed to protect large volumes of stored data, the company ...

Symantec has confirmed that pcAnywhere users are at "increased risk" because attackers have stolen source code to the remote control tool. - The saga over Symantec's stolen code took another twist as the company acknowledged that pcAnywhere customers are at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and new exploits. The breach actually occurred on Symantec servers in 2006, and attackers stole source code to several Norton security product...

vStart is a new preconfigured cloud system server that can host up to 200 virtual machines at a time using vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or both. - Back in April 2011, Dell, Microsoft and VMware got into a three-way marriage to co-develop private cloud systems. As nature would have it, nine months after the consummation of the deal, the partnership is resulting in new offspring. On Jan. 25, the trio came out with vStart, a new preconfigured ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The U.S. Trade Representative apparently negotiated in secret a new intellectual property treaty with restrictions far more onerous than SOPA or PIPA to avoid a congressional review and public objections. - Imagine, if you will, SOPA with even more restrictions than the bill that was shelved by Congress last week. Now imagine that its administered by a shadowy international organization that has no accountability under U.S. law, but can still order your ISP to monitor your personal communications. Fina...

Several "activist hackers" appear to be using DNS poisoning and other attacks against the Domain Name System to divert users away from legitimate sites. - Instead of just launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones. The hacker group Anonymous recently managed to hijack the Domain Name System record for CBS.com and redirected all tr...

VMware is opening its Solution Exchange, an online marketplace that offers virtualization and cloud solutions, to help the company attract new customers and fend off competition from Red Hat, Microsoft and IBM. - VMware is joining a number of other virtualization and cloud vendors in trying to leverage online marketing muscle to expand its customer base, while offering new products to its partners and developers. On Jan. 25, VMware officially launched its Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud...

The unveiled rules for the EU's data privacy law revamp includes 24-hour breach notification, appointing a data protection officer and required user consent for online data access. - The European Commission on Jan. 25 unveiled its proposed changes to existing data privacy laws that would force Internet companies to better protect user information or face fines. The European Commission introduced new rules to update the 17-year-old data privacy laws to better protect Internet us...

Cisco within the next few months will roll out a solution that includes its router and WAN offerings to help enterprises more easily and safely take advantage of cloud computing. - Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the companys key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought se...