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Verizon's cable partners have formed a shared WiFi network of 50,000 hotspots for customers to use. Increasingly, differences between the wireless carriers' and cable companies' offerings are disappearing. - Theres a new WiFi game in town. Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House Networks, Cox Communications and Cablevision Systems have announced “CableWiFi,” a new network of more than 50,000 WiFi hotspots that can be shared by the customers of the various partners. ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple and Samsung are meeting up to discuss their patent issues. It would be great if the two companies could reach some kind of agreement that would reduce the number of suits they are pursuing against each and let the market decide which companys products are most interesting. But the chances of that look slim at best. - Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung chief executive Choi Gee-sung met on May 21 in San Francisco to discuss the bitter patent dispute the companies are waging around the world. The meeting is the result of a court-ordered mediation that some stakeholders hope, will result in some sort of settlement or un...

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nmap 6 was released earlier today, which is a major upgrade to the old version of nmap. One feature that excites me in particular is full IPv6 support, including OS fingerprinting.
In order to efficiently scan IPv6 networks, nmap added multicast requests to enumerate live hosts on a network.
For more details, seehttp://nmap.org/6
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.

SANS Technology Institute

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Compuware announced its APM Spring 2012 Platform Release, which provides application performance management (APM) for mobile, cloud and Big Data environments. - Compuware (Nasdaq: CPWR) recently announced a major new release of its integrated application performance management (APM) solution, the Compuware APM platform, with new support for mobile, cloud, Big Data and streaming applications. The Compuware APM Spring 2012 Platform Release introduces a new g...

Revelations about a recent breach of confidential data in Utah highlights how configuration errors involving authentication and related areas can end up being costly. - Last week, the director of Utah's Department of Technology Services (DTS) resigned in the wake of a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 800,000 people to hackers believed to have been in Eastern Europe. The breach did not happen due to sophisticated malware, howev...

Google Chrome, which became available on Android devices in February, became the world's most-used Internet browser for a week in May. In the U.S., however, Internet Explorer still dominates. - Googles Chrome squeaked ahead of Microsofts Internet Explorer for the full week of May 14 through 20, making it the worlds most popular browser for a full week for the first time, according to data from StatCounter, The Verge first reported May 21. The two Internet browsers have been set on ...

HP is expected to lose its PC crown to Lenovo soon, but its more effectively reorganized PC unit, its relationship with Microsoft and its commitment to China will help it to remain an industry leader, according to TBR. - Hewlett-Packard is likely to lose its title as the worlds top-selling PC maker to Lenovo during the second or third quarter of this year. Still, HP will generate larger profits than Lenovo, and both companies will execute well going forward, according to a May 21 report from Technology Business Rese...

GitHub announced GitHub for Windows, the first version of the GitHub Web-based project hosting service for Windows. Aimed at enterprise developers, it is available as a free download. - GitHub has announced the release of GitHub for Windows, which the company says is the easiest way to use the Git revision control system on Windows. GitHub is a Web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans ...

Apples iOS 5 platform is starting to get a little old. Although it launched less than a year ago, its showing its age as newcomers, like Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, have entered the market with some nice new features. The ball is now in Apples court either to stick with iOS 5 for the time being and try to improve it with an interim upgrade or offer up iOS 6 as an entirely new generation of the software. Given Apples history, its quite likely that the company will unveil iOS 6 at some point in the next month or two. A likely date would be during the Worldwide Developers Conference. So, rather than waste its time trying to improve an operating system thats about to be replaced, the company is probably devoting much, if not all, of its energy to iOS 6. While its hard at work on iOS 6, perhaps it would be a good idea to remind Apple about some of the flaws in iOS 5 and some of the things that most iPhone and iPad users would like to see in the new version of the mobile operating system. Apples iOS 5 platform is nice and all, but lets face it: Theres always room for improvement. Take a look at this slide show to find out what sorts of features should make their way to iOS 6 in order to impress todays iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners. - ...