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The programs with the most security vulnerabilities in 2014 were not the ones you think Summary: Google Chrome, Oracle Solaris and Gentoo Linux all beat Microsoft's Internet Explorer in having the most vulnerabilities last year, according to Secunia, while IBM software took 40 percent of the Top 20 places. Secunia recorded 15,435 software vulnerabilities in 3,870 applications during 2014, according to its annual  Vulnerability Review 2015 , released this week. This represented an 18 percent increase in vulnerabilities and a 22 percent increase in programs compared with 2013. But if you asked people to name the programs with the most vulnerabilites, they probably wouldn't get them right... unless they'd read an earlier Secunia report. Google Chrome headed the list with 504 vulnerabilities, followed by Oracle Solaris (483), Gentoo Linux (350) and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (289). Apple's Mac OS X placed 13th with 147 vulnerabilities, with Microsoft...

Samsung Business launched to tap into IoT, enterprise market Summary: The company's new, dedicated brand will bring together Internet of Things devices and enterprise users. Samsung has launched Samsung Business, an umbrella brand which will further the development of an enterprise-based Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. On Monday, the South Korean electronics giant announced the  creation of Samsung Business , a dedicated brand which unifies the firm's end-to-end business portfolio. In a keynote at CeBIT 2015 in Hannover, Germany, President and Chief Marketing Officer of Samsung Electronics Won-Pyo Hong said the new brand will bring together services including Samsung's KNOX security platform and Samsung SMART Signage solutions, as part of the company's plans to delve further into the corporate market and offer enterprise-ready technological solutions to clients. Samsung Business  has launched with six "experimental" zones, ranging across...

HP launches hyperscale Cloudline servers, aims for white box market Summary: HP launched a family of servers with minimalist designs as a result of its partnership with Foxconn. Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday launched a new set of servers designed for hyperscale cloud providers, who prefer white box gear. The server family, called Cloudline, is the result of a joint venture with Hon Hai's Foxconn. CEO Meg Whitman alluded to the Foxconn partnership during HP's first quarter earnings conference call. Whitman said that HP is looking to partner and play in the market for servers from original design manufacturers. So-called ODM servers are moving up the market share charts. Previously:  Do server vendors have an answer for the white box trend? HP announced Cloudline at the Open Compute Summit. What HP is trying to do is thread the needle between offering ODM servers and surrounding them with support and scale. Cloudline is also an acknowledgement that enterprises may u...

No reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0 Summary: With the new Linux 4.0 kernel, you'll need to reboot Linux less often than ever. With  Linux 4.0 , you may never need to reboot your operating system again. Using Linux means never having to reboot.  -- SUSE One reason to love Linux on your servers or in your data-center is that you so seldom needed to reboot it. True, critical patches require a reboot, but you could go months without rebooting. Now, with the latest changes to the Linux kernel you may be able to go years between reboots. This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called  Ksplice . This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to patch the new code into the running kernel. Each Ksplice-enabled kernel comes with a special set of flags for each function that will be patched. The  Ksplice process  then watches for a moment when the code for the fun...

Microsoft Garage incubator delivers new Windows Phone, Android productivity apps Summary: Microsoft has made a handful of new, free experimental productivity apps for Windows Phone and Android available for download from its Garage incubator. In October 2014, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Garage was morphing from an internal hacking lab to  an incubator for lightweight, consumer-focused app s for Android, iOS and Windows devices. On February 25, Microsoft made available  a handful of new experimental Garage apps , several of which are more business-centric and productivity-focused. Among  the new, free Garage apps, ready for testers to download : DevSpace , available on Windows Phone, helps Visual Studio Online developers work and manage their projects more efficiently. Join Conference , available on Windows Phone, makes it easier to dial into conference calls with just one button or one voice command. Keyboard for Excel , available on An...

Apple granted VR headset patent Summary: The US Patent Office has granted Apple a patent for a virtual-reality headset designed to accommodate an iPhone for its display, much like Google's Cardboard or Samsung's Gear VR headset. Apple has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a virtual-reality (VR) headset designed to accommodate an iPhone as its display. The device, entitled "Head-mounted display apparatus for retaining a portable electronic device with display" in the patent documents, which were first mentioned by  Apple Insider , is described as a head-mounted display system that can be physically coupled with a handheld portable electronic device. The patent -- US Patent No 8,957,835 -- was filed with the USPTO by Apple in September 2008, and granted on February 17, 2015.The device, according to the patent documents, is: "A head-mounted device that is worn on a user's head and configured to integrat...

Facebook's Internet.org arrives in India Summary: App offers free access to set of websites and services including BBC News, Bing, and Facebook. Facebook's Internet.org app has launched in India, offering free access to a set of websites for users in six states. According to the Internet.org - an initiative led by Facebook whose other members include Ericsson, Samsung, Opera, and Nokia - while over 85 percent of the world's population lives in areas with a mobile phone signal, only 30 percent have access to the internet. The idea behind the Internet.org project's app is to make the internet accessible to more people by providing a set of free basic services. The app first launched in Zambia in June last year and since then has been launched in Ghana, Kenya, Colombia, and Tanzania. The particular mix of services offered by Internet.org depends on the location: for example, last month the app launched in Colombia with 16 services  compared to the Indi...

Microsoft gives business users more Windows 10 upgrade details, guidance Summary: Microsoft has shared a few more details about how businesses will be able to get Windows 10 and to keep their users current with feature and security fixes and updates. After providing Windows consumers with details about its planned free upgrade promotion for Windows 10, Microsoft has started providing business users with some early guidance, as well.In a January 30 blog post, Microsoft officials said users running Windows 7 Pro, Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8.1 Pro will be eligible for the free Windows 10 promotion. Via that promotion, users running these versions of Windows will have the option to upgrade to Windows 10 for free for the first year it is commercially available. (Microsoft officials have said Windows 10 will launch by this fall.) Microsoft will provide ongoing feature and security updates and fixes to these customers via Windows Update for the period their dev...

Microsoft rolls out new Outlook apps for iOS and Android Summary: Microsoft is using the code base from its Acompli acquisition to deliver new Outlook apps for iOS and Android. Just   a month after acquiring Acompli , Microsoft is turning that code into new Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android apps. On January 29, Microsoft will begin making available  Outlook for iOS and a preview of Outlook for Android . These new Outlook apps will work with Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and other e-mail services. Microsoft plans to replace the Outlook Web Apps for iOS and Android, as well as the Outlook.com app for Android with these new Outlook apps. That won't happen overnight; the Outlook Web Apps and Outlook.com app will remain in the respective app stores for several months. But Microsoft plans to "sunset" Outlook Web Apps and the Outlook.com app for iOS and Android by summer, officials said. San Francisco-based email app vendor Acompli -...

Firefox enters the realm of virtual reality with the Oculus Rift Summary: Mozilla has added support for virtual reality apps running on the Oculus Rift headset to an experimental version of the Firefox browser. Users of an experimental build of Firefox will be able to explore virtual reality inside the browser after Mozilla added support for the Oculus Rift headset.People running Firefox Nightly will be able to use the Rift to experience 3D environments inside web pages, following the  addition of support for the WebVR API . Virtual reality allows users to traverse 3D spaces by donning a headset that tracks their head movements and allows them to look around a 3D computer-generated world. While VR content on the web is scarce today, WebVR could eventually see VR scenes embedded into web pages, for example a car maker could embed a 3D 1:1 model of a vehicle for people to explore. VR headsets are also yet to go mainstream, but towards the end of this year production is e...