The News Review:
- Software programmers get physical
- Wizzard Software posts $1.3 million loss in first quarter
- Software Rules as Phones Become More than ‘Smart’
- McAfee Symantec eye iPhone products
- Apps bolster iPhone in business but AT&T remains an obstacle
- Guidance Software Announces New EnCase(R) Cybersecurity Solution …
Software programmers get physical
Boston Globe
“My normal job is way up in the clouds” he said. “This is so much more down to earth; this is really a great change. “It’s a change that many programmers and software developers are actively seeking out on their own time as they flock to relatively old-fashioned electronic tinkering as an escape from jobs and careers that are predominantly virtual binary and online. Workshop leader Rodgers who works as a senior desktop administrator during the week is not surprised. “It’s a way to get off the screen” he said making a frame with his hands. “You can do much more with this stuff than you can with a keyboard and mouse” he added pointing to the large work table littered with alligator clips capacitors rolls of soldering wire plastic boxes of parts and batteries. “This is more physical more real.
Wizzard Software posts $1.3 million loss in first quarter
Bizjournals.com
3 million or 3 cents per share after the markets closed Friday. The podcasting and speech technology company (NYSE Amex: WZE) based in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood reported a $2. 75 million loss or 6 cents per share for the same quarter last year. Revenue fell 29 percent from $1.
Related from Transitions-for-women: Allied Healthcare Posts Third Quarter Loss
Software Rules as Phones Become More than ‘Smart’
eWeek
“Yesterday’s smart high-end phone is today’s midrange phone and tomorrow’s entry-level phone” writes analyst Ian Fogg the report’s primary author. The report outlines ways the mobile playing field is changing such as mobile fragmentation increasing versus moving toward standardization on a single platform and how mobile devices are eroding the market for specialist devices. Additionally as hardware features between enterprise and consumer devices blur software is becoming the greater distinguisher. Resource Library: “If you have an innovation with hardware within 18 months it’s going to be copied” Fogg told eWEEK noting how quickly Google shipped a multitouch handset behind the arrival of the Apple iPhone. “If you think then how do you have differentiation it’s with software. It’s software that makes a device an enterprise device enabling it to connect to the corporate Exchange server and the VPN and so on. ” Nokia Eseries devices let users switch between profiles creating a separation between business and personal interactions.
McAfee Symantec eye iPhone products
Reuters
McAfee Chief Executive Dave DeWalt speaking to Reuters a day before the company’s investor day in New York also said the No. 2 security software maker is sticking to its earnings target for the current quarter. “We think everything’s steadily improved. That’s encouraging” DeWalt said in an interview ahead of the Reuters Global Technology Summit next week. “We’ve seen somewhat of a return to normal spending” he said. “In January February it was almost a complete freeze in some cases followed by March just a little bit better.
Apps bolster iPhone in business but AT&T remains an obstacle
ZDNet
So we terminated the AT&T contract and turned the iPhone into a Wi-Fi-only device last August. Fast forward to April 2009. With the announcement of the. 0 software in March and the third generation iPhone expected to be unveiled by the middle of 2009 I decided that it was time for TechRepublic to start paying more attention to the iPhone again and to revisit the iPhone App Store to see if there is anything in there to make it more compelling to the corporate world. So I dug out the iPhone 3G put it in a.
Guidance Software Announces New EnCase(R) Cybersecurity Solution …
Trading Markets (press release)
government networks have fallen prey to an alarming array of attacks in recent months. For contractors like Guidance Software this is a critical time to support government agencies at a tactical level to meet threats headfirst as they try to gain control of the cyber-crisis” said Kate Naunheim Senior Analyst Federal pportunities at market intelligence research and consulting firm INPUT. Guidance Software has partnered with other leading technology vendors to bolster the value of EnCase Cybersecurity. By integrating with the Bit9 Global Software Registry users can augment their own collection of trusted binaries with Bit9′s immense database of known good and bad binaries for comparison with their findings to reduce the time necessary for proactive audits and incident resolution. Furthermore through integration with HBGary Responder Pro users have access to powerful memory analytics. Guidance Software is the only vendor in the enterprise investigation space holding DIACAP Common Criteria EAL-2 and FIPS 140-2 certifications assuring agencies that the solution is stringently secure.