While retailers battle breaches that have resulted in tens of millions of credit card numbers stolen, word comes from the RSA Conference in San Francisco that a major vendor of payment terminals has been shipping devices for over two decades with the same default password. The vendor wasn’t named by …
The U.S. Department of Defense must rebuild trust with Silicon Valley because it needs new technology partners to fight against cyberattacks, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday. The DOD is looking to build its defensive cybersecurity capabilities with help from technology vendors, but the military also will deploy offensive …
The typical employee at Google is relatively young, according to a lawsuit brought by an older programmer who is alleging age discrimination. Robert Heath, a software engineer, was 60 when he applied in 2011 for a job at a rapidly growing Google. He wasn’t hired despite having “highly-pertinent qualifications and …
The U.S. Department of Defense must rebuild trust with Silicon Valley because it needs new technology partners to fight against cyberattacks, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday. The DOD is looking to build its defensive cybersecurity capabilities with help from technology vendors, but the military also will deploy offensive …
Enterprise software vendors are betting the Apple Watch will find a use in the business world and this week announced apps for the smartwatch, which will become available to consumers on Friday. While many of the initial Apple Watch business apps carry out the same functions of their iPhone counterparts, …
Comcast has abandoned plans to merge with Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday. The report quoted “people with knowledge of the matter” and said a formal announcement could be made as soon as Friday. The decision, which was not immediately confirmed by the companies, came …
Comcast has abandoned plans to merge with Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday. The report quoted “people with knowledge of the matter” and said a formal announcement could be made as soon as Friday. The decision, which was not immediately confirmed by the companies, came …
Hackers probably gained access to Sony’s network last year after a series of phishing emails aimed at system engineers, network administrators and others who were asked to verify their Apple IDs, a security expert said today. Last fall, Sony Pictures Entertainment, a U.S. subsidiary of Sony, was infiltrated by attackers, …
A company that tracked retail store customers through their smartphones without notifying them and without giving them a chance to turn off the tracking has settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that it didn’t live up to its privacy promises. Retail tracking firm Nomi Technologies stated in its privacy …
A company that tracked retail store customers through their smartphones without notifying them and without giving them a chance to turn off the tracking has settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that it didn’t live up to its privacy promises. Retail tracking firm Nomi Technologies stated in its privacy …
Potentially making work easier for system administrators, Red Hat has updated its development packages to support running multiple versions of the same programming language on its flagship enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat has released updates to two of its packages of third-party open source software …
For the second time in two days, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that would give legal protections to companies that share cyberattack information. The House on Thursday voted 355 to 63 to pass the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (NCPA), which would protect companies …
Ikea’s recently announced wireless charging line of furniture is expected to jumpstart a trend that will amount to 10 million sticks of high-tech furniture sold in just two years, according to a new report. The report, from IHS Technology, didn’t include the additional potential for “styled” stand-alone transmitters such as …
If there are any overriding trends at work in the enterprise-software market today, consumerization and mobile would have to be among the biggest. Vendors large and small have been racing to add such features to their products, and Thursday brought a fresh example: Salesforce for HR, a new tool that …
Ubuntu 15.04 released Canonical has released the final version of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet). This release offers systemD, Unity 7.3, Compiz 0.9.12, new default wallpaper, Ubuntu Make, and a few other odds and ends. You can download Ubuntu 15.04 right now. Joey-Elijah Sneddon reports on Ubuntu 15.04’s new features for …
Do you want to measure your stress levels? Acer has announced two wearable bands that will measure that, in addition to heart rates. The Liquid Leap Fit and Liquid Leap Curve have a stress sensor, which can tell users when they should take a break from long hours of continuous …
Winston Churchill once said of Russia, “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Now, I don’t deal with international politics. I just write about technology. But when I’ve looked at HP lately I’ve been left thinking of its strategy as, well, “a riddle, wrapped in a …
In retail — and especially in e-commerce — there’s a nuanced distinction between having a very popular sale and arranging for far too little merchandise. It’s like those hold recordings that say the lengthy hold time is because of high customer call volume, prompting most people to mumble, “That and …
A heavyweight battle between Windows 10 laptops and Chromebooks is expected to break out later this year, and Acer will play on both sides with low-priced laptops and laptop tablet hybrids it announced on Thursday. The most interesting product announced was the new Chromebook 15 CB3-531 laptop, which has a …
Europe is still lacking real tech giants like Google, Facebook or Amazon, but it looks like things are slowly changing. However, if European companies want to start competing with Silicon Valley, they have to start thinking internationally from the beginning, says BlaBlaCar COO Nicolas Brusson. BlaBlaCar is a French ride-sharing …
Microsoft on Wednesday released its seventh version of Windows 10’s technical preview. Build 10061 was the first update in April and followed its predecessor by about three weeks. Last month, Microsoft vowed to pick up the pace of Windows 10 preview updates, and since then has delivered three, including Wednesday’s. …
Корпорация Google сообщила о запуске проекта под названием Google Fi. Это виртуальный мобильный оператор, предоставляющий услуги голосовой связи, сообщений и доступа в Интернет в более чем 120 странах. Пользователи будут платить ежемесячно $20 абонплаты и за это получат безлимитные звонки и SMS внутри страны, а также без лимит SMS за границу. Звонки в …
Xiaomi is hoping the well-equipped Mi 4i will help the company grab a larger smartphone market share, but it’s still holding off entering the U.S, and Europe. Launching the smartphone at an event in India is a departure for the company, which thus far has launched its smartphones in China. …
A serious flaw in a component that’s used to authenticate clients on Wi-Fi networks could expose Android, Linux, BSD, and possibly Windows and Mac OS X systems to attacks. The vulnerability is in wpa_supplicant, an open-source software implementation of the IEEE 802.11i specifications for wireless clients. The component is cross-platform …
Facebook’s mobile shift shows through in financial results It doesn’t seem so long ago that analysts were fretting over Facebook’s mobile playbook, but now the social media giant is monetizing a user base that is increasingly on smartphones and tablets. In reporting its financial results Wednesday, it said that a …
Согласно ожиданиям, стандарт LTE охватит сначала столицу Белоруссии, а затем покроет своими сетями остальные регионы государства, об этом сообщил представитель одного из ведущих операторов мобильной связи Velcom Гельмут Дуз. Для осуществления столь грандиозных планов компания должна получить соответствующую лицензию. Сеть 4G позволит жителям Белоруссии пользоваться высокоскоростным интернетом и качественными услугами мобильной связи. Сотовый оператор …