Cisco today announced Managed Threat Defense, a set of security services for the enterprise that Cisco is providing through two new operations centers to remotely support intrusion-detection, incident response and forensics, among other services.
Qualcomm has acquired a large patent portfolio related to Palm, iPaq and the Bitfone device management platform from Hewlett-Packard for an undisclosed sum.
Hewlett-Packard launched two new Android phablets on Wednesday for sale in India next month: the HP Slate6 VoiceTab and the Slate7 Voice Tab.
RSA may have earned much of the criticism being heaped upon it for allegedly enabling a backdoor in one of its encryption technologies under a contract with the National Security Agency. But singling out the company for reproach deflects attention from the role that other technology vendors may have had in enabling the NSA's data collection activities.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty earned a $16.2 million pay package in 2012, while her predecessor, Sam Palmisano, made more than double that for his role as chairman and senior adviser to IBM.
HP announced today that it will "contribute" its webOS operating system to the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/opensource/">open source</a> community.
HP's recently appointed chief executive, Meg Whitman, says the company will decide on the future of the ill-fated WebOS operating system, which it acquired along with Palm in 2010, within a couple of weeks.
While many in the iOSsphere are preordering the relentlessly familiar new <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 4S in record numbers, and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101411-sprint-faithful-wait-in-the-251985.html">standing in the rain to buy one today</a>, many others simply wait. They know, they just know, that the iPhone 5 is out there. Calling to them.
HP has started laying off workers associated with last year's billion-dollar acquisition of Palm, as it closes down the mobile device business it planned to base on Palm's webOS. The news comes almost exactly a month after HP announced a sweeping reorganization and refocusing of its business.
WebOS wasn't really a bad operating system; it just never really had a purpose.
HP's decision to dump its WebOS mobile devices leaves diehard developers who built for it in limbo, said a former HP and Palm software development official who nonetheless lauded the technology and expressed hope that WebOS could be revived somehow.
Hewlett-Packard's departure from the tablet business does not mean that Apple's iPad will remain the undisputed king, analysts said today.
Six months after laying out his "strategic vision" for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realize it. And abandoned the mobile computing space.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/062911-android-apps.html">smartphone</a> users now can access online, video-like presentations created from existing documents and slides, with a new app from Brainshark.
HP straddles two worlds: enterprise systems and consumer electronics. Its new TouchPad tablet is intended to satisfy the needs of both. But you'll have to look harder and wait longer to see HP's unfolding enterprise plan for TouchPad.