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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
NGINX delivers commercial support for the popular open-source NGINX Web server. - NGINX, pronounced “Engine-X,” has announced
commercial support options for companies using its open-source Web server in
production.
This is the
first commercial offering of Nginx Inc., which was founded in July 2011 and
launched in October. The company is offering three technical-support packa...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Xamarins new MonoTouch 5.2 speeds up and simplifies iPhone and iPad application development. - Xamarin, a maker of development software for
building cross-platform mobile apps for phones and tablets, has announced MonoTouch 5.2, a new version of its
software for developing iPhone and iPad apps.
MonoTouch 5.2
delivers new capabilities to improve application performance, streamline the
dev...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon's popular Kindle Fire is missing in action outside the U.S., angering consumers in Canada and the U.K. and costing the company some money. - As Android
tablets go, Amazon's
(NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire is absolutely flourishing in the U.S., where
industry analysts estimate
the e-commerce company sold 4 million to 6 million of the 7-inch slates at $199
a pop for the holiday quarter.
Yet each
report of the Kindle Fire's success adds so...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Sprint reported a fourth-quarter loss, but also the end to a four-year period of recovery. The next few years will instead be about growth and of course the iPhone and LTE. - Sprint, during its first
full quarter with the Apple iPhone, reported a net loss of $1.3 billion and a
diluted loss of 43 cents per share during the fourth quarter of 2011. This was
the bad news.
The good news was that
Sprint, which announced its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 8, sold 1.8 millio...
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Posted in Network World on February 8th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
A push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cyber security watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians.
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
While business owners indicate plans to hire in the next 12 months, they demonstrate some concern around hiring today. - Americas small business owners are the most optimistic since July 2008, according to the latest findings from the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey for the period Jan. 9-13, 2012. The Index now stands at positive 15 for January, compared with minus 3 in October and following two previou...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Verizon and Health Evolution Partners are looking to enable development in real-time care coordination and mobile data services. - Health care IT investor Health Evolution Partners
and Verizon Enterprise Solutions are collaborating to foster innovation in
mobile health, telemedicine and health data management. The partnership, which
both companies announced Feb. 6, will leverage Verizon's IT infrastructure to
spur innovatio...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Adobe has taken another step to secure Windows users from malicious Flash code by releasing a beta plug-in of Flash Player with a built-in sandbox for Firefox. - Two of the three major Web
browsers now offer some form of Flash Player with built-in sandbox protection.
Internet Explorer is not one of them.
Adobe has been modifying its
popular Flash Player to include the sandbox technology that would block malicious
code before executing. Adobe on Feb. 6 r...
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Posted in Network World on February 8th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Enterprise coders can now use an open source Web application that lets them consolidate software vulnerability data from a range of scanning and test tools. With a centralized view, and reporting and management tools, ThreadFix speeds the work needed to fix software bugs and vulnerabilities, including those in proliferating mobile apps.
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Updated: Google is preparing its Chrome Screenwise program to gain more information about Web surfers. The move comes as concerns over the company's privacy policy changes abound. - Updated: Google
(NASDAQ:GOOG) is willing to pay online surfers to browse the Web and share data
about their travels with the search-engine giant.
The company
has begun soliciting users for its Screenwise
program, in which it will pay Chrome users in Amazon gift cards to
surf Websites. Users mu...
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