The News Review:
- Tech M&A Clouding Boundaries Between Hardware Software
- LSI Chief Touts Importance f Software To Chip Makers
- Microsoft’s software vision chief embraces future horror
- RIM Issues Security Update for BlackBerry Enterprise Server and …
- Gov says DiMasi spoke to him about software
Tech M&A Clouding Boundaries Between Hardware Software
Wall Street Journal
–>Tech M&A Clouding Boundaries Between Hardware Software ArticleCommentsmore in. n Thursday Intel Corp. (INTC) said it would buy Wind River Systems Inc. (WIND) for $884 million. Among Wind River’s products: Software used in mobile devices something that dovetails with Intel’s interest in pushing its Atom processor for portable consumer electronics gear.
LSI Chief Touts Importance f Software To Chip Makers
Wall Street Journal
–>LSI Chief Touts Importance f Software To Chip Makers ArticleCommentsmore in. (LSI) Chief Executive Abhi Talwalkar on Friday stressed that chip makers need to be able to support hardware developments with software prowess when designing and selling semiconductors to customers. “We wanted complex silicon and complex software” Talwalkar said describing his software strategy in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. It’s part he said of LSI’s goal to deliver richer experiences for customers through its semiconductor products. To support LSI’s chip designs currently half of the Milpitas Calif. company’s engineers.
Microsoft’s software vision chief embraces future horror
Register
Speaking at the Churchill Club in Palo Alto California on Thursday zzie said we’ll continue to need an operating system to abstract the hardware in servers PCs and devices that to the cloud. According to zzie it’s the programming model that’s changing not the need for an actual operating system. Some cloud evangelists have imagined a virtualized future where operating systems disappear. zzie – who took over the chief architect role from the department Bill Gates – did indicate that Microsoft might not make as much money from cloud-based services as it does on software.
RIM Issues Security Update for BlackBerry Enterprise Server and …
Wireless and Mobile News
The advisory says that multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the PDF distiller of some released versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The vulnerabilities could enable a malicious individual to send an email message containing a specially crafted PDF file which when opened for viewing on a BlackBerry smartphone that is associated with a user account on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server could cause memory corruption and possibly lead to arbitrary code execution on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of that BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Research In Motion(RIM) issued an interim security software update that resolvesthese vulnerabilities in affected versions of the BlackBerry EnterpriseServer and BlackBerry Professional Software.
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Gov says DiMasi spoke to him about software
Boston Globe
DiMasi about performance management software but downplayed the suggestion that DiMasi had discussed with him a particular company Cognos ULC that provided such software and was seeking a state contract. “Not so much Cognos” Patrick said in an interview on WTKK-FM. “I certainly knew he was interested in this software. DiMasi who resigned in January was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on a charge of participating in a scheme when he was speaker that allowed him to pocket $57000 in payments from Cognos while making sure the company won state contracts. After his appearance on the “Ask the Governor with Jim and Margery” radio show Patrick was more vague about his interactions with DiMasi saying “What I know and I don’t think this is news either we knew of his interest in performance management. Patrick also defended his administration’s actions in awarding one state computer contract that was allegedly rigged with DiMasi’s help. “First of all we’re the ones who called in the [Inspector General] when our team first got wind of cause for concern and I have absolute confidence that our team in every respect performed professionally and with integrity” Patrick said in the interview.