Expo Notes: More stuff for the business folks
If you'd just read the pre-show publicity about Macworld | iWorld, you might have thought it was all about art, music, and fun. But as I walk the show floor, I've been finding lots of Mac and iOS products for serious business use, too. Yesterday, I wrote about some announcements from Ntractive, Mindwrap, and Stellar Data Recovery. Here are three more intriguing business products I've seen since then.
Macworld | iWorld 2012 Best of Show winners
The annual expo for Mac and iOS users has evolved to focus on the user community, but the Macworld | iWorld exhibit hall where companies show off their wares is still a huge part of the show--you might even say it's the most important part. Hundreds of products are on display, but a few stand out from the rest. We call these products the Best of Show.
Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong
This week's tsunami of tech earnings, led by Apple's jaw-dropping quarterly report, has given market watchers something to cheer about and also points to industry shifts around tablets and cloud computing.
CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds
CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.
MacIT: IT groups grapple with managing fast-growing iOS devices
Apple recently has improved its mobile device management features, but IT groups are discovering a new set of challenges when they start to move to larger numbers of iOS devices, MacIT conference attendees are confirming this week.
FTC to scrutinize mobile payment technology
Will mobile payments become common, and what will the impact of that technology be?
Researchers unearth more Chinese links to defense contractor attacks
Symantec researchers have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors.
Tech Leaders Call for Global Harmony on Privacy, Security
In the borderless digital world, tech and finance companies can get tangled up in a web of laws and regulations on privacy and data security.
Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec
It was another busy week for hactivists attacking the online targets of their ire. This time, hackers under the banner AntiSec appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. government's online security website, in protest against the much-railed-against legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as other bills regarding intellectual protection. Similarly, the group Anonymous is believed to be behind the distributed denial-of-service attack on Thursday that brought down the European Parliament's website in what is thought to be retaliation for European support for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site the week before. Anonymous also opposes a treaty being ratified in Europe now called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That deals with infringement of intellectual property rights.
Lookout Security rebuts rival's Android malware claims
Researchers from Lookout Security disagreed with rival Symantec that 13 apps on the Android Market were malicious, instead saying that they showed the same behaviors as other ad-supported apps.
Expo Notes: Crestron offers home and business automation
Most folks exploring the show floor at Macworld | iWorld are probably far more likely to drop $10 on an iPhone case than nearly $2000 on a home (or business) automation setup. But those with more discretionary income to spend may well be interested in the technology shown off this week by Crestron.
Investors bet $16 million on growth in application delivery market
When investment firm Edison Ventures decided to contribute the majority of a recent $16 million round of funding for application delivery controller provider Kemp Technologies, investment manager Lenard Marcus acknowledged that some initial risk was incurred.
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria
Microsoft has awarded an Imagine Cup Grant to a team that developed a custom Windows Phone 7 and application that can diagnose malaria then upload the data to cloud servers that map the data to help track outbreaks.
Expo Notes: Sandvox 2.5 Web design package boosts slideshow support
Sandvox, the visual Web design and authoring package from Karelia Software, is forging ahead with new features in its version 2.5 update, which arrived just in time for Macworld | iWorld.
Macworld | iWorld goes on down to South Park, has itself a time
Macworld | iWorld--the annual Mac conference--has taken on more than a new name this year, as it shifts its focus to the culture that Apple's products have helped foster. Perhaps it's fitting, then, that some of the creative team behind South Park headlined the talks at Moscone Center West on Thursday.