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Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings sees the future of mobile phone communication in the cross-platform solution that Linux can provide. His vision was buffeted recently by a prediction by market research firm ABI that Linux will ship in more than 200 million phones in 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007....

Zend CTO Andi Gutmans likes to tout the benefits of PHP and Web 2.0 development for business. In fact, he calls Zend "the PHP company." PHP, which stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor Platform," is becoming the language of choice for companies embracing service-oriented architectures, creating and mix...

Martin Carmichael, the chief security officer for security software developer McAfee, is responsible for IT security, forensics, risk management, physical security, IT security engineering, and compliance with regulatory controls. He also serves as the chief privacy officer for McAfee. His more than...

Power.org, an association of hardware technology companies, software and individual developers of Power Architecture, hosted a first-of-its-kind Software Summit in Austin, Texas, on April 19. Kai Staats, CEO of Yellow Dog Linux developer Terra Soft and founder of the HPC Consortium, presented a key ...

Using the Hawaiian word "wiki" meaning "quick," Ward Cunningham coined the concept of WikiWikiWeb as a Web site for speedy interaction among targeted users. In its most basic form, a wiki Web site allows any user to create, add, remove or edit content and pages. Forrester Research recently surveyed ...

Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity makes his living sneaking into other peoples' businesses and leaving with their data. Stickley robs banks, but unlike conventional thieves, he is not after what is locked inside the vault. Instead, he steals personally identifiable information such as names, addres...

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council launched in September as a joint venture between Visa International, MasterCard Worldwide, Discover Financial Services, JCB and American Express to continuously improve the data security standard. The group couldn't have appeared at a better time....

It's an e-tailer's nightmare: In the constant struggle to keep up with online shopping trends and technology, a company relaunches its Web site with all the bells and whistles. However, it soon learns that the site's upload time is at a crawl, or its checkout is too slow. Sure, the firm did its home...

As e-commerce continues to thrive, online retailers keep raising the bar higher for each other. Meanwhile, consumers these days don't just want lightning-fast online checkouts -- they expect flawless and customized shopping experiences too. At last week's eTail Palm Desert, Cliff Conneighton, senior...

Microsoft on Tuesday issued 12 software patches, six of which covered vulnerabilities the company designated as "critical." The patches were part of Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday security bulletin. TechNewsWorld spoke with Ashar Aziz, CEO and founder of network malware security firm FireEye, to...