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Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

By Marc Ferranti | 25 May, 2012 22:22

Tags: Investments, business issues, Morgan Stanley, Facebook, workday, Eloqua, palo alto networks, sap, Ariba

Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.

By Joab Jackson | 25 May, 2012 18:34

Tags: Development tools, application development, software, oracle

Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, cloud computing, internet, Financial / tax, applications, software, Intuit

Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.

By Lucian Constantin | 25 May, 2012 15:45

Tags: cybercrime, Access control and authentication, data breach, Criminal, legal, intrusion, security

Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

By Fred O'Connor | 25 May, 2012 15:03

Tags: health care, industry verticals, business intelligence, applications, software, internet

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.

By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 14:56

Tags: Telecommunication, smartphones, security, mobile security, Mobile OSes, mobile, iPhone, iOS, Hack In The Box, Exploits / vulnerabilities, consumer electronics, applications, Apple

Windows 8 update: all the latest rumours, opinions and possibilities

While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear.

By Tim Greene | 25 May, 2012 14:35

Tags: Windows 8, Windows, steve ballmer, software, sharp, operating systems, Microsoft, MIchael Dell

Unthethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Friday.

By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 13:53

Tags: Hack In The Box, iOS, Mobile OSes, mobile, applications, Telecommunication, iPhone, smartphones, consumer electronics, mobile security, Exploits / vulnerabilities, security, Apple

Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

The story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis in the second paragraph.

By IDG News Service staff | 25 May, 2012 09:30

Tags: security, sap

Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 23:37

Tags: Eric Holder, John Barrow, Frank Pallone Jr., WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, networking, Criminal, legal, privacy, security, Regulation, government, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Google, U.S. Department of Justice

Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 20:53

Tags: Eric Holder, John Barrow, Frank Pallone Jr., WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, networking, Criminal, legal, privacy, security, Regulation, government, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Google, U.S. Department of Justice

Researchers propose TLS extension to detect rogue SSL certificates

A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates.

By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 20:35

Tags: pki, privacy, online safety, security, Web servers, software, Internet Engineering Task Force

Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08

Tags: Yahoo, software, search engines, Microsoft, IT industry, Internet Search, internet, Google, browsers, applications

Facebook beefs up mobile photo sharing with Camera

Facebook introduced its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company closes its deal to acquire the popular photo-sharing app Instagram.

By Cameron Scott | 24 May, 2012 18:56

Tags: social networking, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook

About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, e-mail, applications, software, Google, Microsoft

Microsoft clarifies Ballmer's claims of massive Windows 8 adoption

Reports earlier this week that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted unprecedented sales of Windows 8 were wrong on multiple counts, Microsoft and independent analysts have agreed.

By Gregg Keizer | 24 May, 2012 18:46

Tags: Windows, software, operating systems, Microsoft, App Development

European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes

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By Peter Sayer | 24 May, 2012 17:42

Tags: privacy, security, search engines, internet, Google

Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.

By Joab Jackson | 24 May, 2012 16:52

Tags: Linux, operating systems, open source, software

Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

Yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build Yahoo-signed Chrome extensions

Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo's name.

By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 16:41

Tags: encryption, security, browsers, applications, software, search engines, internet, Yahoo

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