News tagged with software code

Cyber crooks cranking out new weapons experts warn

Cyber criminals are cranking out new weapons at a brisk pace, tailoring malicious software for a spectrum of gadgets including smartphones, tablets, and Macintosh computers, a security firm said.

Technology / Internet

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Judge scolds attorneys in Oracle vs. Google patent trial

The judge presiding over a patent trial pitting Oracle against Google scolded rival attorneys on Monday as deliberating jurors grappled with subtleties of references in computer software code.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Facebook's rite of passage into 'the Hacker Way'

Congratulations, recruit! It's time to learn the ropes of your Facebook engineering job.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downloading ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New IBM software accelerates decision making in the era of big data

IBM today announced new software to provide clients with a sophisticated way to tame the data deluge and speed up business processes, making it easier for decision makers to gain insights from data. Based ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chaos in the cell's command center

A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions. Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells rely on, with each cell type ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NIST improves tool for hardening software against cyber attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have dramatically enlarged a database designed to improve applications that help programmers find weaknesses in software. This ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Galaxy DNA-analysis software is now available 'in the cloud'

Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IBM donating cooperative web technology that enables life changing healthcare solutions

IBM today announced that the company is donating new software code to help health care and other industries work on shared content in real-time, on the Web. The code is from IBM Project Blue Spruce and will be donated to ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Apple software update thwarts iPhone-iPad hack

Apple on Friday released a software update to patch a vulnerability that hackers could use to break into the company's popular iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 16, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Cybercrime networks impacted 1M computer users

(AP) -- Law enforcement officers in the U.S. and seven other nations have seized dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts in an international probe of cybercrime rings responsible for $74 million in losses to more ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Court says Microsoft must pay in patent case

(AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Microsoft Corp. must pay a $290 million judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company for infringing on one of its patents inside its popular Microsoft Word program.

Technology / Business

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Hackers aim ruse at Apple computer users

Hackers are out to trick Apple computer users into infecting Macintosh machines with malicious code pretending to be legitimate security software.

Technology / Internet

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

One-in-14 software downloads malicious: Microsoft

Microsoft on Wednesday warned that hackers use mind tricks more often than software skills to get viruses into computers.

Technology / Software

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Court hears arguments in Microsoft patent case

(AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments from Microsoft Corp. asking it to overturn a $290 million patent infringement judgment against the world's largest software maker, a ruling that could have a profound effect ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1