The Glider

HTC's Help page advised users of the issue, which can be resolved through an automatic software upgrade, though some users will have to update manually. - Smartphone manufacturer HTC admitted several of its phones running Googles Android operating system have a security flaw that allows hackers or an application to view and access WiFi security information. The affected phones include the Desire HD, the Glacier, the Droid Incredible, the ThunderBo...

Sixty-seven percent of SMBs surveyed plan to create or improve their Web presence, including SEO and SEM, an increase of 7 percent from the prior year. - While opinions vary on the pace of the economic recovery, 55 percent of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) surveyed reported their business had either already recovered from the recession or expected to recover within the next six months. Those numbers are even more encouraging for businesses w...

By 2016, competition among PaaS vendors will produce new programming models, new standards and new software market leaders. - Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to IT research firm Gartner. PaaS is a common reference to the layer of cloud technology architecture tha...

Google battled back against Microsoft over the software giant's allegations against the search engine's privacy policies. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Feb. 1 fired back at Microsoft's advertising slam against the search engine's privacy policy updates, publishing a myth-busting blog post that addresses its rival's key allegations. The backstory: Google Jan. 24 said it will fold 60 privacy policies into one blanket policy,...

Facebook's Feb. 1 filing for a $5 billion initial public stock offering has the potential to give the world's biggest social network a market capitalization that would put it in the same rarified league as Google and Apple. The question is whether its future growth and financial performance will keep it there. - Facebook filed for a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1, claiming to make $3.7 billion in annual revenue, $1.8 billion in operating income and $1 billion in net income. With some 845 million users, Facebook may not have been an Internet darling for a few years. When the social net...

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...