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Combinatorial methods can make software security testing much more efficient and effective than conventional approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Topics include hackers stealing data for up to 80 million US insurance customers, mobile systems starting to use advanced technologies to improve cellular telephony, 19,000 French websites suffering cybervandalism in the wake of the country's recent terrorist attacks, researchers discovering a security flaw that could let hackers eavesdrop on cell calls, the US government requiring faster speeds for broadband services over ISPs' objections, researchers developing a poker-winning application, scientists developing a way to make supercomputers more efficient and powerful by changing the way they perform checkpointing, a new head-mounted display that projects images directly onto users' eyes, a new RAM approach could enable ultrafast smartphones, a Linux bug representing a major Internet threat, several big technology firms settling a lawsuit over accusations that they conspired to limit workers' wages, and a list of 2014's "worst" passwords having a familiar look. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A variation of the suspend-resume technique eliminates the need to initialize the Linux kernel, and when combined with approaches to enhance external memory read speed and shrink the suspend image, can decrease Android OS boot time by up to 90 percent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Emerging mobile platforms Firefox OS and Tizen are learning from Android's security successes and trying to avoid its limitations. Although these platforms offer largely novel solutions, they can still learn from one another. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/yZjVsWz_DAY is a video discussion in which authors Fabio Massacci and Yury Zhauniarovich discuss Android's successes and limitations and what developers can learn from them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The common trace format overcomes deficiencies in traditional software tools to optimize modern multicore designs by providing open source formats to monitor the state and interaction of concurrent systems over time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Despite initial suggestions to the contrary, open source software projects exhibit many of the fundamental tenets of software engineering. Likewise, the existence of category-killer apps suggests that conventional software engineering can draw some lessons from OSS. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Commercial software firms can control or steer open source software projects to meet their business needs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In an interview conducted by Dejan Milojicic, EIC of Computing Now (www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow), Rich Wolski, CTO of Eucalyptus Systems, gives an overview of the services and applications his company provides. The extended transcript of that conversation, along with the audio podcast, is available through Computing Now. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]