Marissa Mayer knows fashion, and she’s bringing more of it to Yahoo with her latest acquisition announced Friday. Yahoo has reached a deal to acquire Polyvore, an e-commerce site that lets you shop for “what’s trending in the style community,” Yahoo announced Friday. It hopes the deal will give it …
The CEO of failed Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox was arrested in Japan early Saturday by police, according to several media reports. Mark Karpeles faces charges related to the loss of 650,000 bitcoins worth hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars when the Tokyo-based trading exchange collapsed in February 2014. Karpeles, a French …
Earlier this month, a security vulnerability in Adobe Flash compelled Google and Mozilla to temporarily block the plug-in from their browsers. Now, Facebook says the problems with Flash could hurt its bottom line. In a filing with U.S. regulators on Friday, Facebook said security issues with Flash could harm the …
IBM may be leading the pack when it comes to putting away patents related to cloud technologies. In the past 18 months, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued more 1,200 patents to IBM related to the cloud, with 400 of those issued so far in 2015, according to …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Canadian citizen with conducting a scheme to conceal his control and ownership of a microcap company whose price quickly spiked last year. The SEC suspended trading in the stock, Cynk Technology Corp., before the alleged schemer, Phillip Thomas Kueber, could profit on …
Two U.S. House Democrats are proposing a new visa for immigrants who can obtain “significant” venture capital funding for a business, or can otherwise establish a business that creates some jobs. The legislation is from U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who represents Silicon Valley, and Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who has …
Microsoft customers downloaded 14 million copies of the Windows 10 upgrade on the first day of availability, the company said today. The 14 million, just a fraction of what Microsoft hopes will adopt the new OS in the next three years, was served with little if any disruption to the …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules violate the free speech rights of broadband providers because the regulations take away their ability to block Web traffic they disagree with, one ISP has argued. The FCC’s net neutrality rules take away broadband providers’ First Amendment rights to block Web content …
An individual who did work for Hacking Team was in contact with hackers working for a terrorist organization, and disgruntled employees—who deny the charge—were planning to sell an antidote to the spyware vendor’s surveillance software, an Italian newspaper reported Friday. A general in the Italian foreign intelligence service (AISE), identified …
Android Studio, which has been billed as the official Android IDE, will get improvements in C++ language accommodations, annotations, and memory profiling with the release of the 1.3 version this week. Based on JetBrains’ popular IntelliJ Idea Java development environment, Android Studio has been viewed by InfoWorld as a superior …
Researchers at the Black Hat 2015 conference next week will show how to crack Internet routing protocols, malware-detecting honeypots, radio-frequency ID gear that gates building access, and more, but also offer tips on how to avoid becoming victims to their new attacks. A pair of researchers will release a hardware …
When it became apparent that medical and fitness uses would be one of the biggest drivers for wearables, a lot of people groaned. The Food and Drug Administration would have to get involved. As it turned out, the FDA was doing some groaning of its own about the prospect, and …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should reject a privacy group’s push to extend the E.U.’s controversial right to be forgotten rules to the U.S. because such regulations would have a “sweeping” negative effect on many U.S. companies, a trade group said. The FTC should dismiss a July 7 complaint from …
Italian police have shut down a Dark Web marketplace offering illegal goods ranging from child pornography to forged luncheon vouchers, and seized 11,000 bitcoin wallets worth about 1 million euros, authorities said Friday. Officials compared the marketplace discovered by “Operation Babylon” to the Silk Road online black market that was …
Image by Seanutbutter/Wikipedia Eating a healthy breakfast can help your children pay attention in school, but that doesn’t mean eating Frosted Mini-Wheats makes them smarter — or so a judge decided in a class action lawsuit brought by parents enraged over false advertising. The plaintiffs got $15 apiece, the lawyers …
The next edition of Google Glass will target enterprises and feature an attachable design, a news report suggests, shedding new light on rumors that have been circulating over the past several months. The device will feature a curved, rectangular form factor much the way the first, consumer-focused Glass edition did, …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should reject a privacy group’s push to extend the E.U.’s controversial right to be forgotten rules to the U.S. because such regulations would have a “sweeping” negative effect on many U.S. companies, a trade group said. The FTC should dismiss a July 7 complaint from …
Mozilla Firefox honcho castigates Microsoft chief: CEO Chris Beard is lambasting his opposite number at Microsoft for Windows 10’s inability to remember browser-choice settings. His complaint centers around the user experience when upgrading to the new OS. It appears that Satya’s crew decided—in their infinite wisdom—that all users should open the …
In partnership with Pluralsight, Network World presents a free course on CCNA routing and VLANs. In this course, the student will learn the fundamental concepts of networking, and then immediately apply this knowledge to the configuration of a router and switch. To read this article in full or to leave …
If you’re excited about getting Windows 10 on your PC, but waiting for Microsoft to push out your “reserved” copy, well, you may be twiddling your thumbs a while yet. On Friday, Microsoft sent out an email to users who signed up to reserve their copy of Windows 10. The …
Mozilla yesterday went public with its complaint about Windows 10 resetting the default browser, calling it “disturbing” and demanding that it “undo its aggressive move to override user choice.” In a letter from Mozilla CEO Chris Beard to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, Beard slammed the way Windows 10 setup …
A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus firm confirmed the security breach, but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, …
Mozilla yesterday went public with its complaint about Windows 10 resetting the default browser, calling it “disturbing” and demanding that it “undo its aggressive move to override user choice.” Microsoft defended the practice of making its Edge browser the default in Windows 10, but left open the possibility of a …
Your personal data: That’s what Windows 10’s Hello and Cortana features need to help you, assuming you’re comfortable with that. To be fair, it’s nothing new—plenty of apps and services ask for your preferences, location, etc., to serve you better. Windows Insiders who opted in to the Windows 10 Technical …
With the exception of MacBook Air, Apple laptops now ship with a Force Touch trackpad – this technology is expected to migrate to a future iPhone, so finding out what you can already do with it should be of interest. Force Touch lets you Force Click an item. You do …
Facebook’s new Internet-access drone set to fly by year end An unmanned aircraft called Aquila was the star of the show as Facebook on Thursday showed how it plans to provide Internet access to hundreds of millions of people in remote parts of the world. The plane should get a …