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Novell is positioning its MonoTouch software development kit as a mechanism for building Microsoft .Net-based applications for Apple’s new iPad device. MonoTouch removes obstacles to .Net development for the iPad, the company said. Without MonoTouch, developers who use .Net will not be easily able to build iPad applications because the iPad developer program and license [...]

Microsoft Thursday said 60 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold in the past six months, but most of those have been from the consumer side and business uptake has been flat. The news came as Microsoft reported record quarterly revenue of $19 billion and $6.6 billion in profits for the second quarter of fiscal [...]

Informatica has purchased MDM (master data management) vendor Siperian for about US$130 million, strengthening its hand against larger rivals such as IBM and Oracle. The acquisition, which Informatica announced Thursday, fills a hole in the company’s lineup of data integration and data quality tools. Master data refers to entities such as products or customers that [...]

The recent flurry of rumors predicting the end of AT&T’s arrangement as exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone were apparently false. In fact, not only did Apple not announce the demise of exclusivity, it doubled down on its exclusive arrangement with AT&T by revealing AT&T as the sole provider of 3G wireless access for the [...]

Want to run Windows 7 on the new Apple iPad? Citrix says it will soon be possible — at least virtually — using a new version of its Citrix Receiver software. Promised to be ready when the tablet computer ships in March, Citrix says the new software, based on the current iPhone version, is a [...]

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has temporarily shut down because of financial difficulties. The website announced it was suspending operations in a message on its homepage that included an appeal to the public for donations. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has temporarily shut down because of financial difficulties. (c) 2010 AFP

After all the posturing of the past few weeks, Google CEO Eric Schmidt apparently still thinks that his company can change China. In comments at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Schmidt continued to soften his rhetoric toward the government of China, which Google all but accused of orchestrating a cyberattack that resulted in the [...]

Just one day after the unveiling of the iPad, Apple’s long-rumored tablet has ruffled feathers and turned heads. With a familiar interface, Apple’s momentum, iTunes integration, and a price that the even non-geek can easily fall in love with, it has all the makings of a hit. But deep inside lies something even more revolutionary. [...]

At next week’s Black Hat Conference in Washington, D.C., security specialists plan to show how fragile the construct of software and hardware can be as they poke holes in the sometimes delicate weave of the Web. Foreground Security’s senior security researcher Michael Bailey, for instance, intends to perform live attacks against some of the top [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details the wealth of information a Web browser reveals, which can pose privacy concerns when used to profile users. The EFF’s Panopticlick tool takes just a few seconds to pluck out information that a Web browser divulges when visiting a Web site, such as a [...]