NYT Nokia Developer Forum Hacked, Taken Offline The Nokia developer forum has been taken offline after a breach from malicious hackers, according to the company. During Nokia's investigation they discovered that the forum database table containing developers' email addresses and in some cases personal information had been exploited by an SQL injection. The hack is bigger than Nokia had… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Cloud Computing Citrix FOSS Cloud Infrastructure Extends to VMware, Oracle The cloud looks less cloudy by the week. This week's story line for the VMworld 2011 conference in Las Vegas, which opens today, appears to be "cloud definition." One of this week's most defining moments may have already happened, as Citrix Systems made good on its pledge last month, in acquiring cloud infrastructure firm Cloud.com, to extend its… Scott M. Fulton View comments
mobile Samsung Launches Mobile Messaging ChatON, a new mobile messaging platform from Samsung is going to launch at the IFA consumer electronics conference this week. Unlike Blackberry's BBM or Apple's upcoming iMessages, ChatON will work across platforms, including Android, iOS, Blackberry and Samsung's Bada OS. There will also be a version available for feature phones. Mobile John Paul Titlow View comments
Security SonicWall Mid-Year Threat Report Last week, leading security company McAfee asked a question of the security industry, "are we really protecting our users?" A lot of evidence points to the contrary. As can be seen in a new mid-year threat report from firewall maker SonicWall, consumer and corporate networks are larger and more vulnerable than ever. Yet, the battle against… Dan Rowinski View comments
Announcements SunGard Offers Recover2Cloud Disaster recovery specialty firm SunGard announced this week Recover2Cloud, a collection of managed recovery services that provide guarantees to recover your servers including replications and data vaults. The idea is to be completely up and running within a day after disaster strikes. SunGard operates dozens of offsite data centers around the… David Strom View comments