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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

FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.

By Stephen Lawson | 25 May, 2012 19:53

Tags: health care, industry verticals, Regulation, government, networking, sprint nextel, U.S. Federal Communications Commission

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 on Friday.

By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 14:56

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

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

Refund for some Facebook investors

Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bought Facebook's stock in Friday's IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.

By AAP | 25 May, 2012 09:43

Tags: social networking, social media, Morgan Stanley, Facebook

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

Apple settles patent lawsuit with SimpleAir

SimpleAir in Texas said Thursday it had settled its patent infringement litigation against Apple, and entered into a confidential license agreement by which Apple had taken a license to its patents.

By John Ribeiro | 25 May, 2012 07:24

Tags: patent, intellectual property, legal, SimpleAir, Apple

China's Sina Weibo targeting Japanese advertisers

One of China's top Twitter-like sites, Sina Weibo, is working to attract Japanese companies to advertise on its platform by helping the firms open and use accounts on the microblogging service.

By Michael Kan | 25 May, 2012 05:42

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

Huawei files antitrust complaint with EC against InterDigital

Chinese communications equipment company Huawei Technologies has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against patent company InterDigital, claiming it is abusing its patents allegedly essential to the 3G (UMTS) standard, it said Thursday.

By John Ribeiro | 25 May, 2012 04:32

Tags: antitrust, patent, intellectual property, legal, european commission, InterDigital, Huawei Technologies

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

Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict

Service-level agreements and legal standards for Cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.

By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2012 20:30

Tags: University of London, The Cloud, SLAs, service level agreements, Queen Mary, internet, cloud computing

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

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