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  • Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

    Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 25 May 12 23:31

  • 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.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 25 May 12 19:53

  • 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.

    Written by Lucian Constantin • 25 May 12 15:45

  • 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.

    Written by Michael Kan • 25 May 12 05:42

  • 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.

    Written by Grant Gross • 24 May 12 23:37

  • 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.

    Written by Grant Gross • 24 May 12 20:53

  • 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.

    Written by Cameron Scott • 24 May 12 18:56

  • 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).

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 24 May 12 18:55

  • 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.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 24 May 12 16:49

  • Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

    More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

    Written by Loek Essers • 24 May 12 16:37

  • Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

    IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

    Written by Michael Cooney • 24 May 12 13:33

  • Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

    Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 24 May 12 13:00

  • Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties

    Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Written by Fred O'Connor • 23 May 12 21:35

  • Wolfram expands into system modeling

    Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for full-scale system modeling and simulation, the company announced Wednesday.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 23 May 12 21:04

  • Revisiting RDP, discovering ReactOS, and finding Mindjet

    A second look at Microsoft's RDP client, considers a replacement for Windows XP, and delves into "Mind Mapping"

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 23 May 12 20:25

  • CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

    CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 23 May 12 05:29

  • Apple's Cook 'top-paid US CEO in 2011'

    Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $US300 million ($A305.95 million) above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey shows.

    Written by AAP • 22 May 12 09:18

  • Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

    David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which dates back to Cobol's early days in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

    Written by Robert L. Mitchell • 22 May 12 00:55

  • IT outsourcing: Will CIOs reclaim their power?

    IT outsourcing has always been a double-edged sword for CIOs. What starts out as a cure for IT's ills always seems to cause more headaches down the road.

    Written by Stephanie Overby • 22 May 12 00:36

  • Five ways to send a custom software project off the rails

    This all happens in big cloud projects as well. There are many contributing factors to these bad outcomes-chief among them adversarial incentives, inappropriate metrics and lack of collaborative infrastructure-but those aren't the root cause.

    Written by David Taber • 22 May 12 00:34
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