The end of Android as we know it

	Developers fear they'll be stifled by judgement in Oracle-Google suit | Google's Wi-Fi spygate troubles have only just begun
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	The end of Android as we know it Android devices account for more than half of the smartphones sold or at least shipped, yet a growing number of signs indicates that Android has peaked as a platform and will do a slow fade into either irrelevance or the kind of anonymity the operating systems powering "regular" cellphones have long known. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ PCI Compliance Deep Dive Developed and enforced by the credit card industry, the PCI Data Security Standard contains a set of detailed tenets that every company dealing with customer data should adopt. InfoWorld security expert Roger Grimes explains the best approach to PCI compliance – and the consequences of failing to do so properly. Learn More! In this Issue Developers fear they'll be stifled by judgement in Oracle-Google suit Google's Wi-Fi spygate troubles have only just begun Google makes BigQuery available for big data needs Hacked websites target Android for the first time RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Developers fear they'll be stifled by judgement in Oracle-Google suit If Oracle prevails in its contention that APIs can be copyrighted, software developers could be stifled in how they work and innovate, say observers of the ongoing Oracle-Google trial, in which Oracle claims Google improperly used Java technology in the Android mobile software platform. Read More Google's Wi-Fi spygate troubles have only just begun Google probably thought it was tossing water on a smoldering Wi-Fi spying controversy by releasing the full version of that FCC report a few days ago -- turns out it was gasoline. Now Google is looking at a raging inferno. Read More WEBCAST: Nimsoft Monitoring & Service Management for Distributed Environments The Consumerization of IT at end points and within data centers is being driven by a raft of technology and market changes - Cloud, virtualization, exploding mobile end points (tablets, smartphones, etc.) and proliferating service providers. These changes are fundamentally shifting the role of IT organizations and CIOs. View Now Google makes BigQuery available for big data needs BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability testing, Google said on Tuesday. Read More Hacked websites target Android for the first time Analysts with Lookout Mobile Security have found websites that have been hacked to deliver malicious software to devices running Android, an apparent new attack vector crafted for the mobile operating system. Read More
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