Enterprise Applications

Twitter a big winner in 2012 presidential election

Social networks like Twitter and Facebook play a role as voters tweet and post about election experience

ACLU, EFF challenge law targeting online activities of sex offenders

A voter-approved law targeting human trafficking violates the free speech rights of sex offenders, the groups say

Sandy wounded servers, some grievously, say services firms

Many East Coast IT infrastructure rescue efforts are underway in the wake of Hurricane Sandy

MasterCard demonstrates new ways to pay online using mobile devices

The card company uses a secure element stored on a phone to protect online transactions

12 Ways to (Not) Screw Up Your Website

Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server

Code-named Hekaton, Microsoft's in-memory technology will allow an entire database to be run from memory

Google services went down for 30 minutes in Asia this morning, CDN says

An expert at CDN provider CloudFlare says Google's services, including its public DNS server, went offline for a little less than half an hour on Tuesday morning

HP simplifies automated software testing suite

HP's updated Unified Functional Testing (UFT) provides a way to test all layers of an application from a single screen

Verizon to shut down app store by January

Verizon will start removing the Verizon Apps application from Android and Research In Motion devices in January

Microsoft DRM technology will take a head count, check ID

‘The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored …’