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As Congress considers more H-1B visas, U.S. tech workers struggle to find work

Veteran tech workers see themselves locked out of job market that favors imported immigrants and younger grads

By Grant Gross

May 3, 2013 8 mins

Careers IT Jobs

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

Why Netflix trusts Cassandra with its billions of daily reads and writes

By Andrew Lampitt

May 2, 2013 4 mins

Databases Java Netflix

Citrix adds IM to Podio enterprise collaboration software

Podio will gain audio- and videoconferencing in the coming months

Small and Medium Business Software Development

May 2, 2013 2 mins

Cloud SLAs ‘fall short,’ says user advocacy group

The Cloud Standards Customer Council says SLAs are so confusing and rigid as to be problematic for customers

By Brandon Butler

May 2, 2013 3 mins

Careers Cloud Computing

Salesforce Summer ’13 release to focus on Chatter, customer ideas

Analyst: The release shows that Salesforce.com is listening to customers' requests for new features

SaaS Small and Medium Business Software Development

May 2, 2013 3 mins

Intel promotes insider to succeed Otellini as CEO

Former COO Brian Krzanich faces a declining PC market that had formed the engine of its growth

May 2, 2013 4 mins

Salesforce.com to ship Communities app in June

Organizations can use the application to build social collaboration sites for interacting with customers and partners

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

May 2, 2013 2 mins

AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit

Advanced Micro Devices officially establishes custom-chip business unit in effort to break away from its heavy reliance on slumping PC market

May 2, 2013 5 mins

D-Link publishes beta patches for IP surveillance camera vulnerabilities

D-Link said patches are for those who want to manually update their camera's firmware ahead of next month's full release

Access Control Intrusion Detection Software Patch Management Software

May 2, 2013 2 mins

Intel’s ‘Haswell’ laptop chip gets massive graphics performance boost

Upcoming fourth-gen Core processor will deliver up to twice the graphics performance compared to third-gen 'Ivy Bridge' chip

May 2, 2013 3 mins

SAP loses bid to overturn $345 million patent judgment

The long-running dispute with Versata Software centers on pricing software

Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

MapR uses the LucidWorks Search, while Cloudera releases its SQL-compliant Impala

Analytics Data Management Open Source

BYOD, or else: Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job

Security remains the main BYOD concern, but CIOs seen ready to create strategies that keep companies safe

By Lucas Mearian

May 1, 2013 4 mins

Careers

Asana adds enterprise features to its task management app

Improved areas include broader projects visibility for business managers and stronger controls for IT departments

Software Development

Java EE 7 moves forward

Java EE 7 and Web profile JSR gets the stamp of approval from the JCP

By Paul Krill

Java Open Source Web Development

Groups criticize FBI plan to require Internet backdoors for wiretaps

U.S. task force reportedly working on plan to severely penalize companies that fail to comply quickly with wiretap orders

By Jaikumar Vijayan

May 1, 2013 5 mins

Privacy Technology Industry

5 reasons to build an enterprise mobile app store

IT departments can keep employees from using malware-infested mobile apps by creating an internal store of company-approved apps

By Lauren Brousell

Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks

Printers, routers, and many other Internet-connected devices can all be used by hackers to conduct an attack

Data Warehousing Technology Industry Web Development

Careers Hacking

Facebook’s big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

An engineer reveals during an industry conference how the social networking site is working to make its back-end data processing more efficient

By Zach Miners

May 1, 2013 4 mins

Mozilla moves to stop spyware company from spoofing Firefox

Gamma International disguised its FinSpy program as the Firefox Web browser, according to a new report

Intrusion Detection Software Malware Technology Industry

Samsung builds chips to supercharge your smartphone

With 2.1Gbps performance, a mobile device with the Samsung chip could transmit three full HD videos in one second

By Lucas Mearian

Samsung Electronics Technology Industry

Survey: Control and security of corporate open source projects proves difficult

New Sonatype survey finds 80 percent of most Java applications comes from open source

By Ellen Messmer

Java Open Source Security

10gen expands MongoDB with storage service

10gen offers to keep backup copies of MongoDB deployments

Apr 30, 2013 3 mins

Data Management

Filr is designed to let employees to access their work files from mobile devices

Careers Software Development Technology Industry

Apr 30, 2013 3 mins

AMD-led consortium takes steps to break multicore programming barriers

Uniform memory architecture (HUMA) could resolve shared memory challenges

Data Management Java Web Development

Survey: Control and security of corporate open source projects proves difficult

A new survey by Sonatype found widespread use of open source in businesses, but a lack of policies governing open source usage

By Ellen Messmer

Open Source

The product now runs on the new BlackBerry 10 OS devices

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Apr 30, 2013 2 mins

Apache servers ambushed by sophisticated backdoor attacks

Researchers at Sucuri and Eset say the attacks, which delivers the Blackhole malware kit to site visitors, leaves no trace on servers

By John P. Mello

Cybercrime Malware Technology Industry

D-Link firmware flaws could allow IP video stream spying

Core Security researchers found hard-coded credentials and other flaws in firmware used in a variety of IP video cameras

Access Control Careers Intrusion Detection Software

AMD-led consortium takes steps to break multicore programming barriers

HSA Foundation releases a uniform memory architecture, called HUMA, that makes different memory types in a system accessible to all processors

Software Development Technology Industry

25 must-have technologies for small businesses

Running a small business can be extremely stressful, but these 25 must-have technologies will help your SMB succeed

By Jeff Vance

Apr 30, 2013 15 mins

Malware Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Microsoft previews Skype for Outlook.com

Preview allows users to make calls and send instant messages from within the webmail service using browser plug-in

By Mikael Ricknäs

Apr 30, 2013 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

Opera sues former designer over work on Mozilla’s iPad browser

Trond Werner Hansen has been hit with a $3.4M lawsuit for spilling secrets to Mozilla

By Gregg Keizer

Apr 29, 2013 3 mins

Java Software Development

Sencha CEO: Treat HTML5 apps as a programming platform, not a Web page

Emerging mobile application landscape includes Tizen and Firefox OS

By Paul Krill

Apr 29, 2013 5 mins

Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 percent in 2012

Salesforce.com takes over the top spot in terms of revenue, beating out SAP

Software Development Technology Industry

Apr 29, 2013 3 mins

Qualcomm’s wireless power technology allows for pad-free charging

Qualcomm starts shipping test equipment for a wireless charging standard released by Alliance for Wireless Power in January

Apr 29, 2013 2 mins

Google backs off redesign of Chrome’s New Tab Page

Users protested that an awful revamp hindered productivity in the Chrome 27 beta

By Gregg Keizer

Apr 29, 2013 5 mins

Climate change pushes some companies and their data centers to go green

More firms are plugging into gas for power, collecting rainwater

By Lucas Mearian

Apr 29, 2013 6 mins

McAfee spots Adobe Reader PDF-tracking flaw

The flaw in Adobe Reader could allow an attacker to see when and where a PDF is opened.

Application Security Data and Information Security

Apr 29, 2013 2 mins

OASIS: MQTT to be the protocol for the Internet of Things

The MQTT pub/sub protocol would be ideal for low-bandwidth, low-power communications

Software Development

Salesforce, the pillow maker, and the $125,000 AmEx bill

An employee is left with a huge credit card bill after a software implementation allegedly goes wrong

SaaS Software Development

Apr 26, 2013 5 mins

25 weirdest things in the ‘Internet of Things’

The Internet is slowly creeping into every part of our lives, and soon millions and millions of connected devices will all be talking to each other

By Colin Neagle

Apr 26, 2013 7 mins

Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks

Nearly half of phishing attacks seen during the second half of 2012 involved the use of hacked shared hosting servers, APWG report says

By Lucian Constantin

T-Mobile Technology Industry

Cybercrime Phishing

T-Mobile comes clean about ‘uncarrier’ service plan

A deceptive-advertising settlement with Washington State requires the carrier to offer refunds nationwide

By Stephen Lawson

Apr 26, 2013 4 mins

Virtual machines inching toward portability

Moving virtual machines across different hypervisors is possible but still requires much manual intervention, an ODCA study found

Private Cloud Technology Industry

Apr 26, 2013 5 mins

Google adds in-browser Office doc viewing to Chrome

Google has promised to add editing to Chrome OS, and may follow with similar functionality in the Chrome browser add-on

By Gregg Keizer

Software Development Technology Industry

Samsung profits soar on smartphones, tablets; high hopes for Galaxy S 4

Profits rose 42 percent in the first quarter to a record-high $6.4 billion as the electronics behemoth's core products increased market share

By Jay Alabaster

Samsung Electronics Technology Industry

Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business

Facebook acquires a company that provides a cloud-based app development platform that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps

By Zach Miners