New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected. Computerworld - One in every 20 Windows PCs whose users turned to Microsoft for cleanup help were infected with malware, Microsoft said this week. Microsoft cited that statistic and others from data generated by its new Safety Scanner, a free malware scanning and scrubbing tool that re-launched May 12. The 420,000 copies of the tool that were downloaded in the first week of its availability cleaned malware or signs of exploitation from more than 20,000 Windows PCs, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center (MMPC) reported Wednesday.
That represented an infection rate of 4.8%. On average, each of the infected PCs hosted 3.5 threats, which Microsoft defined as either actual malware or clues that a successful attack had been launched against the machine. Of the top 10 threats found by Safety Scanner, seven were Java exploits, said Scott Wu and Joe Faulhaber of the MMPC, in a blog post. Microsoft has sounded the warning about the explosion in Java exploits before.
Forrester calls Google's Chromebook 'corporate idiocy' Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- Let's begin this story the same way a murder mystery starts -- with a few bare facts. The victim is Google's Chromebook. The crime scene is Forrester's IT Forum here, and the alleged suspect is George Colony, chairman and CEO of the research firm. In the opening scene, there is the Chromebook computer, our victim, trapped, with no place to hide or means to defend itself. The Chromebook has no intelligence, no local storage, and only works when connected to the Web. Having sized up his victim, Colony then moves in. The gunshot. "I thought this was one of the greatest acts of corporate idiocy that I've ever seen," Colony said of Google's Chromebook.
CSI is now on the scene, so let's rewind the story and discover motive. Chromebooks, based on Google's new Chrome OS, will be available next month. Forrester calls the widespread use of mobile apps the "app Internet. " "That is the architecture of the future," Colony contended. Google is too Web-centric, he added. Bring your own device? That's easy. Try App Internet. There has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of enterprise IT organizations supporting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs. I clearly believe BYOD programs are the wave of the future. But earlier today, my viewpoint was expanded to the point that I now believe that BYOD is just the tip of the iceberg with regards to the challenges faced by corporate IT.
What's the bigger picture, you ask? Have you heard of "The App Internet"? The basic idea of App Internet is a new architechtural framework that replaces both the PC / desktop computing model as well as the web / cloud model. What?!? You must be crazy. It depends on how you look at it. If your still trying to wrap your head around App Internet, just think of the Apple commercials where they advertise the phrase "there's an app for that". At any rate, I started thinking about how an App Internet model would affect enterprise IT departments.
Does this make things more challenging for enterprise IT departments? What do you think? What’s Old is New: App Internet Looks a Lot Like Client-Server : Jim Louderback. Forrester CEO George Colony just posted up a warning for web-focused companies and strategy – the web is dead, and apps are where it’s at. I agree with him, as I see an on-rushing shift from dumb cloud-based flat web pages to the exciting, interactive and powerful apps we’re now loading on our phones and tablets.
But this “new world” is, in fact, nothing new. It’s simply the middle tick of a pendulum that’s been madly swinging since the dawn of computing – oscillating between centralized computing and local control. Back in the early nineties we would have called this mid-point client-server computing – the beginning of a decentralized model of building programs that was derailed by HTML and WWW – which were themselves a throwback to mainframe-based timesharing from the dawn of computing.
A little history puts this supposed new trend in perspective, and can offer some guidelines to the power, and pitfalls of the latest pendulum swing. And suddenly the web was upon us. App Internet: The Next Wave. Like most CEOs, you're probably feeling good because your company finally has a great Web site.
But don't get too comfortable. The way you connect to your customers is about to change again... Two ways of computing have dominated over the past 20 years. The first I'll call the "Microsoft model" -- where local personal computers do most of the work. The second model is the Web/Cloud model, in which most of the work happens on remote servers. So what comes next? What does the App Internet mean? How about your company? Translation: As CEO, start pushing your CIO and CMO toward App Internet.
Forrester’s George Colony: Hello, App Internet. Goodbye, Web - Eric Savitz - The Tech Trade. Mobile App Internet Recasts The Software And Services Landscape. How the 'app Internet' is changing the game | Mobile apps. Good-bye, Internet revolution -- hello, app revolution! The proliferation of smartphones, tablets, and vibrant app ecosystems such as the ones around the iPhone/iPad and Android devices are set to change the game. This shift will arrive through a new wave of innovation that links cloud-based services, smart computing, and app-enabled devices, including cars, appliances, and entertainment systems, according to new research from Forrester.
A new report, "Mobile App Internet Recasts the Software and Services Landscape," from John McCarthy posits that on the heels of the App Store/Android Market revolution will come a second explosion of innovation that will displace activity away from the Web and toward apps as the mobile market takes over and devices become more sophisticated -- and more numerous. This tranformation will present a major opportunity for developers and enterprises to create apps, as well as set up and manage the devices they're on.