PocketGear said on Tuesday it had acquired Handango, creating the biggest cross-platform mobile application store. The combined store will have more than 140,000 applications, PocketGear said. Users of Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux and Java phones can shop for and buy applications for their phones from the sites. Both companies in one form [...]

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Mail’s Spotlight-based search feature stands up reasonably well to heavy use, but as your e-mail archives begin to swell, Mac OS X’s indexing can’t quite keep up–the bigger your Mail archives, the slower Spotlight searches in Mail become. Enter Rocketbox, a new plug-in for Mail that augments Mail’s search capabilities and claims to increase the [...]

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Upgrading users to a new operating system always seems to have its pitfalls, and Windows 7 is no exception. If you’re migrating multiple users, you’ll definitely need some tools to help automate the task. Fortunately, Microsoft has created a tool for the occasion, appropriately named Windows Easy Transfer. This simple tool migrates your users’ profile [...]

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A new version of Enterasys’ Wi-Fi software simplifies network management and operations, and improves client performance in 802.11n enterprise wireless LANs. Good and wicked cool mobile and wireless companies to watch The HiPath Wireless version 7 software, powering the company’s controllers and access points, now lets network administrators easily classify users into different groups. A [...]

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Comcast Corp. unveiled today an aggressive plan to deploy new domain name system security mechanisms that are designed to protect Web site operators and consumers from a specific type of hacking attack that involves hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites. In a blog post, Comcast said it has deployed DNS Security Extensions [...]

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Last month at CES, Lenovo did its best to shuck off its stuffy business-oriented image, announcing, among other things, a hybrid laptop/tablet “with two brains,” and new ThinkPads aimed at small to medium-size businesses that, in a huge break from tradition, come in bright red or white. This month, however, it’s back to tradition, as [...]

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SanDisk and Seagate are shipping their largest ever storage SD cards and SATA drives respectively. Tomorrow they’ll ship even larger ones. SanDisk can deliver a 64GB Ultra SDXC memory card, SDXC being the successor to the SDHC card format. You can put more than a day’s worth of high-def video on the card, at 9Mbits/s [...]

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Car thief gangs have begun using imported GPS jammers to allow them to escape tracking technology. Illicit kit imported into Europe from China operates on the same frequency as GPS satellites to drown out timing signals and confound in-car devices. Because of this in-vehicle systems are unable to either determine their position or report in [...]

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Most CIOs have had to deal with rogue business units – parts of the organization that, for one reason or another, can stave off any attempt to modernize, standardize or stabilize its idiosyncratic IT systems, but still need solid data connections to the parent company. Hospital CIOs have to deal with hundreds of those units [...]

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Adobe Systems on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability that could be exploited to remotely install malicious files on end-user PCs when they install or upgrade Reader and Flash applications. When combined with a flaw on Adobe’s website, the bug in the Adobe Download Manager made it possible for attackers to install malware on Windows machines [...]

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