Why Enterprise Is Avoiding Windows 8

Despite Microsoft MSFT -0.73% shipping more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses, Redmond’s newest operating system is not making much headway in the enterprise world, with IT decision makers deciding to give it the cold shoulder.

Invasion Of The Machines: iRobot Hunts Bombs, Cleans Floors, Now Wants To Heal You This story appears in the June 10, 2013 issue of Forbes.

As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside. But the 45-year-old iRobot IRBT -2.95% cofounder and CEO isn’t testing out a toy–he’s putting a $100,000-plus piece of machinery to work, a remote-controlled 60-pound minitank with four cameras, rubber treads and a 6-foot extendable arm.

Can Data Storage Ever Reach An Absolute Limit?

Yes. The maximum possible amount of data you can cram into a given space is the Bekenstein bound.

So what does that translate to? Well, the E is actually mass-energy. But assuming your storage device is a spherical thing that has mass, the number of bits you can store is around (2.57*10^43)*(mass of your storage device in kg)*(radius of your storage device in m).

Yahoo's Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions

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Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to

Twitter Just Launched Two-Factor Authentication To Foil Hackers: Turn It On

After a series of nasty hacks of high-profile accounts, Twitter just turned on a feature that’s becoming the new normal in Web application security: two-factor authentication.
As the video above shows, Twitter users can now sign up to have a unique code sent to their phone by text message whenever they log in from a new computer. That ensures that any hacker who tries to steal your password, say with a phishing attack or keylogging spyware, would also have to compromise your phone, too, creating a serious security barrier.

Banks Looking To Cash In By Mining Social Data

Across industries, organizations are collecting and using large sets of data to get a leg up on the competition. One industry that has been particularly aggressive at harnessing the power of data is the banking business.

How Xbox One's New Kinect Could Reinvent TV Navigation

By now you may have heard a little about the new Xbox One’s Kinect, the motion tracking sensor that will ship with every Xbox One later this year.
The companion device, which was introduced yesterday at the Xbox One unveiling at Microsoft ‘s Redmond campus, is a blocky little bar with a small camera and highly-sensitive microphone that looks pretty much like the first-generation Kinect.

Why The New Google-NASA Partnership Marks A New Era In The History Of Computing

It’s easy to become jaded about announcements in the tech world.  Slick, media savvy CEO’s announce “revolutionary” new products with metronomic regularity.  Version 1.0 becomes 1.1 and eventually 2.0 and on and on.  It all seems like a blur.

Google Continues To Play Catch-Up With 'All Access' Music Service As Critics Sound Off

Google CEO Larry Page on stage at Google I/O 2013: "We should be building things that don't exist." (Jonathan Hall/ Forbes)

On Wednesday during the closing segment of a three-and-a-half hour keynote presentation at his company’s developers conference, Google CEO Larry Page chided the media for its interpretation of his company’s relationship with other technology firms. Making one of his first public appearances since missing company events with vocal cord ailments last year, Page made it clear that he was unhappy with the portrayal of Google as a divisive figure in Silicon Valley.
“Every story I read about Google is kind of ‘us versus some other company’ or some stupid thing, and I just don’t find that very interesting,” said Page. “We should be building things that don’t exist.”

Why Facebook Should Buy Waze

By Tomio Geron and Ryan Mac
Mark Zuckerberg in early April held a flashy press conference to launch Facebook FB -2.01% Home, a new app for Android that turns a phone into an always-Facebook device. Its Cover Feed takes over the phone’s home screen with wall updates. Its Chat Heads messaging system has photos of your friends in cute circular icons that can be accessed from other apps.

Not A Billionaire: After Yahoo Deal, Tumblr Founder David Karp Is Worth Just Under $200 Million

David Karp didn’t finish high school. That didn’t stop him from working his way into the 1 percent.
On Monday, when Yahoo YHOO -1.74% announced it would acquire Karp’s Tumblr, rumors swirled across the Web that the 26-year-old entrepreneur had become a billionaire, joining the likes of Facebook FB -2.01% cofounders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz as the youngest members of the 10-figure fortune club. The Tumblr founder, however, is not a billionaire. But he is still very wealthy.

Tax Increases? Why Facebook's Billion Dollar Income Isn't Taxed (At All) By IRS

Mark Zuckerberg commands attention even if Facebook’s much hyped IPO was lackluster. As a visionary billionaire, when Mr. Zuckerberg speaks, people listen. Having $1.1 billion in profits must feel pretty good. Paying no taxes to the IRS and even to revenue starved California? Priceless. See Facebook Paid No Income Taxes In 2012.

Apple: Think Different. Tax Different

No person or company wants to be accused of skirting tax obligations. Yet despite Joe Biden’s “paying higher taxes is patriotic” gaffe, paying too much could make you a chump. When Mitt Romney tried to stem the tide of negative tax press by forgoing deductions, he was derided for that too. See Romney Paid 14% in Taxes This Year but Could Have Paid Less. All the way around, taxes make a poor spectator sport.
Tax evasion? Bad. Tax avoidance? Less so. Tax planning? Above reproach. Yet sometimes tax planning is so über-creative it is virtually gymnastics. Tax gerrymandering is especially bad if you brag about it like Leona Helmsley. Her “only the little people pay taxes” motto landed her in prison.

Three Essential Components of Successful Social Media Campaigns

When working in the world of social change, it’s easy to get excited about a new campaign when we’re inspired by hope or outraged by injustice. But in the scramble to make change happen, we can forget about the tactics and tools that actually help us implement our visions for a better world. Here are three sometimes-overlooked components of digital campaigns that are essential for success.
1. Tangible goals, and tactics to meet them. (cf. “A Plan.”) Seems obvious, right? But many well-meaning groups often paint their goals with broad strokes, like “get the word out about x,” which can be difficult to measure. Or, their goals are so narrow and out of reach (“tell the president of the universe to enact legislation which…”) that they leave little room for casual bystanders to interact with the campaign.

Vine For Voice: Why Half A Million Millennials Share Sound On Dubbler

You know where to go to spruce up your phone photos so you can share them with friends–Instagram. And for short edited videos, Twitter’s Vine platform can help you channel your inner Jack Dorsey with six-second edited clips. But when you want to impose your voice or a happy birthday song on your friends, social media doesn’t have as clear of an answer for where you should go. That’s where audio-sharing app Dubbler thinks it can become the next big media-sharing app—by betting people like the sounds of their own voices even more when they can share them filtered to sound like a robot or a cat.

Yahoo, Tumblr And Social Media Stuck In Neutral

It’s worth noting that the biggest social media story of the year so far has nothing to do with innovation but rather the sale of an existing platform, Tumblr, to an entrenched tech giant, Yahoo YHOO -1.74%. It may be a sign that the first big social media land grab has come to an end.

The idea that the social media industry is settling in is a strange one. For a while, it seemed like a new massive platform would pop up every few years and the pattern would keep going forever. From 2006 to 2011, Facebook FB -2.01%, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram all hit growth spurts and solidified their status as giants within incredibly short time frames. But the phenomenon seems to have come to a halt. Recently, the most promising attempts to break into social have not been new concepts, like Pinterest was in 2010, but rather purported giant killers like Google GOOG -1.85% Plus. And the giants are still in great shape.

It's Not Just China: Indian Hacker Group Spied On Targets In Pakistan, U.S. And Europe

Part of a decoy PDF found by researchers, meant to infect a target with interest in Indian military capabilities.

Watch The Video: Microsoft Xbox One Event

Microsoft MSFT -0.64% launched its next-generation video game console on May 21st at a special event on their corporate campus in Redmond, Washington called “Xbox: A New Generation Revealed.” The new console, called the Xbox One, will help usher in the next generation of video game hardware, and ramp up the war for gamer dollars between Sony , Nintendo , and Microsoft MSFT -0.64%.

Apple, Called A U.S. Tax Dodger, Says It's Paid 'Every Single Dollar' of Taxes Owed

In brief: Apple CEO Tim Cook, called to testify before a Senate subcommittee that charges it with dodging U.S. taxes, says its paid ‘every single dollar’ of the taxes it owes and that it supports ‘dramatic’ changes to the tax system that will likely mean Apple will pay more in taxes.
A U.S. Senate subcommittee today questioned Apple AAPL -0.74% CEO Tim Cook about the company’s offshore cash, charging the company with exploiting tax loopholes and setting up offshore subsidiaries to shift “large potions” of its profits offshore as part of a plan to “dodge” paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes.

Microsoft Stumbles Through Xbox One Announcement

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I just wrapped up my live coverage of the Xbox One reveal, an event that was half as long as most thought it would be, and one hour longer than it should have been.

Meaning, this shouldn’t have been an event in the first place.
The Xbox One announcement was an hour long, though really only 45 minutes if you don’t count the 25% of the presentation devoted solely to being a singular ad for the (non-Xbox exclusive) Call of Duty: Ghosts. The presentation veered wildly around from topic to topic, starting strong, but finishing prematurely before nearly any important questions about the system were answered.
Screenshots of the Xbox One:

Will snoopgate fell the Bloomberg giant?

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testifies is taking legal action against Bloomberg for alleged snooping practices. Source: AP

JP MORGAN was in the eye of a storm. Bruno Iksil, a trader in the Wall Street bank's London office, had made big bets that were starting to go wrong.

The firm was on the hook for losses that would total more than $6bn. Jamie Dimon, the usually unflappable chief executive, was on the rack.

Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Arrives

  

Java-based mobile development framework that supports iOS and Android

Oracle has announced the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile, an extension of the Oracle Application Development Framework.

This new 1.1 release adds support for device-native push notification, new device integration infrastructure based on Apache Cordova, full file attachment viewing, and updated mobile operating system support.

Dell says cannot disclose more information to Icahn yet

Mon May 20, 2013 7:49am EDT

(Reuters) - Dell Inc said in a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management that the company would not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to founder Michael Dell's.

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) builds enhanced quality database

Northern, WI 05/20/2013 (indicesmedia) – The share prices of Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) had jumped by 1.92% to reach $35.03 at an above average trading volume of 26.99 million shares. The leading provider of enterprise software and computer hardware products and services had enabled Columbus State University to gain real time visibility and development into student performance and engagement.

Oracle reveals swathe of Aussie rollouts

news Enterprise technology giant Oracle has published details of half a dozen sizable deployments of its technology by Australian customers, as it continues its push to convince local technology buyers of the popularity of its Fusion platforms.

US Judge: Only Powered-Off Mobile Phones Deserve Privacy Protections

A federal magistrate judge in New York recently ruled that cell phone location data deserves no protection under the Fourth Amendment and that accordingly, the government can engage in real-time location surveillance without a search warrant. In an opinion straight from the Twilight Zone, magistrate judge Gary Brown ruled two weeks ago that “phone users who fail to turn off their cell phones do not exhibit an expectation of privacy.”

Windows Phone: Time for Microsoft to Put the Pedal to the Metal

By Lance Ulanoff14 hours ago

Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's Windows Phone marketing lead, was grinning from ear to ear when we sat down for an interview earlier this week. Market research firm IDC had just anointed his phone platform a solid Number 3, beating the once-dominant Blackberry platform for the first time.
"It’s very refreshing," Sullivan told me.
Granted, Windows Phone and Blackberry are fighting over scraps. That same report indicated that 92% of all shipping smartphones are on the Android and iOS platforms. Still, for Microsoft it's a victory of sorts — maybe even a sign of momentum.

Technology Xbox Xbox 720: five key points about Microsoft's new generation

Microsoft is unveiling its new console in Seattle on Tuesday. So what can we expect from the long-awaited Xbox 360 successor?

• Keith Stuart
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 May 2013 09.52 BST

The invitation to Microsoft's next generation Xbox 720 event on Tuesday

Sony's cards are on the table, now it's Microsoft's turn to show its hand. After the controversial introduction of the PlayStation 4 in February, Tuesday will see the unveiling of the next Xbox machine, which still doesn't have a name – although Infinity is a frontrunner once again. Taking place at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, the event will be live-streamed across the globe, and should actually show us the new console – unlike Sony's rather coy non-reveal.

Using Java WebSockets, JSR 356, and JSON mapped to POJO's

The Performance Zone is supported by New Relic and AppDynamics. Both are leaders in the APM space with high-profile customers and massive cost reductions for those users.

I have been playing around with Tyrus, the reference implementation of the JSR 356 WebSocket for Java spec. Because I was looking at test tooling I was interested in running both the client and the server side in Java. So no HTML5 in this blog post I am afraid.

RIM to Roll Out Emerging Market-Focused BlackBerry

By WILL CONNORS

ORLANDO—BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. BBRY -0.48% said it is planning to roll out a new phone that will run on its latest operating system and target customers in the developing world—the first new RIM product following the launch of its all-touch BlackBerry Z10 and its keyboard-equipped Q10.

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Making sure your Java isn't a load of old rubbish

Summary: Taking out the trash is a vital element of keeping your Java virtual machine running smoothly.

By Simon Bisson for 500 words into the future | May 16, 2013 -- 13:39 GMT (06:39 PDT)

Java's had a lot of bad press recently, which has led to security consultants and even government agencies calling on users to uninstall Java from their PCs.
But enterprise Java is still an important technology – at the heart of many important cloud platforms and in enterprise servers, where it's a business-critical technology.
Back at QCon, the cross-platform developer conference, I sat down with Gil Tene, the CTO and co-founder of JVM vendor Azul, to talk about how a well-designed JVM can take the risk out of running enterprise-grade Java service and applications.

IPCONFIG–An internal error occurred: The request is not supported.

I helped to troubleshoot a laptop (running Windows XP with SP3) which was having problem getting IP address.  The laptop was not able to get IP address and I got the following error when I ran ipconfig. Windows IP Configuration
An internal error occurred: The request is not supported.
Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further help.
Additional information: Unable to query host name.