A senior executive at Microsoft who has been with the company for 25 years has announced his departure. AllThingsDigital.com reports that Hank Vigil, currently the senior vice president of the Strategy and Partnership division at Microsoft, will still be a strategic adviser to the company even as he leaves to “focus on investing in and advising for early-stage start-up companies”. His departure was revealed via an internal company memo.
Vigil has had a number of positions and jobs at Microsoft during his career at the company. He’s done marketing for Microsoft’s Office software suite and helped once led the company’s Digital Television Group division.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker says licensing webOS to third-party handset manufacturers is something the company would certainly entertain.
But should it? And under what conditions?
In a client note this week, Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry makes the case that it should, and comes up with some interesting scenarios to support that argument. He says that Sony, Motorola and Samsung are growing disillusioned with Googles Android OS. They feel theres too much fragmentation and too little differentiation among Android devices and that companies producing low-end handsets are collapsing the premium market theyd most like to play in.
OnLive in talks with Sony and on adding tech to PS3 and Xbox 360
27 Jun
Posted by Nicholas Lewis as News IT
The OnLive streaming cloud-based gaming service is in talks with both Sony and Microsoft about bring its technology to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. This revelation comes from an interview at Computer and Video Games with OnLive vice president of engineering Joe Bentley who states, “Absolutely, they would make great consoles. Our controller is a hybrid between a PS3 controller and an Xbox controller. It’s all compatible, it would just work. There are OnLive guys chatting , but we’ll see where it goes.
The Common Weakness Scoring System (CWSS) is intended to give developers and customers a better idea of which weaknesses should be accorded the highest priority. A buffer overflow discovered during a code audit is, for example, assigned a lower CWSS score if the data used to trigger the overflow is not derived from user input. Memory leaks which lead to crashes are given an even lower score.
A comparable system for classifying vulnerabilities already exists in the form of the relatively venerable Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Factors used to calculate a vulnerability’s CVSS score include basic metrics, local or remote exploitability, the trustworthiness of the discoverer, temporal metrics and the availability of an exploit.
The rail system supports in excess of 50 million tons of freight per annum, and the move to a newer version of Mincom Ellipse software follows more than 10 years of WestNet successfully using the platform to gain comprehensive visibility of rail signalling and communication assets throughout their lifecycle, from initial construction or purchase, to maintenance, inspection, repair and eventual replacement.
WestNet’s IT services manager, Graeme Stickland, said the upgraded version of Mincom Ellipse includes solutions for asset and work management, as well as financials and supply chain management, to further drive the productivity and efficiency of the company’s assets and workforce.
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Research In Motions upcoming shareholder meeting is shaping up to be quite the spectacle.
With the companys shares deep in the mud and investor confidence waning, Glass Lewis today added its voice to calls to split up the companys chairman and CEO roles. The proxy advisory service on Friday formally recommended shareholders vote in favor of a motion that would separate those roles which are currently held jointly by Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.
We are concerned that the current co-chair/co-CEO structure provides inadequate independent checks on executives and management, particularly since the co-CEOs founded the company and are its largest shareholders,” Glass Lewis said in a report on the matter, adding that an independent chairman would be better able to oversee company executives.
RIM vehemently opposes the motion, which was originally proposed by Northwest Ethical Investments, but it will be put to a vote at RIM’s annual shareholder meeting on July 12.
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