Two former employees of Sony Pictures have filed a lawsuit against the company alleging it didn’t do enough to safeguard their personal information and prevent its loss in a massive cyberattack in late November. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, asks the …
Mozilla has been running a fundraiser from within its Firefox browser, a program that will continue until Dec. 31. When users launch Firefox they may see a PBS-style pitch for money on the browser’s start screen, which normally is a minimalist display of a search field and a few tool …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against two individuals and their companies behind an alleged gold mining investment scheme based in Miami. The SEC Enforcement Division alleges that Michael Crow and Alexandre Clug promised investors a stake in so-called “quick-to-production” gold mines that their company Aurum Mining LLC …
Instagram’s got five new filters that it hopes will improve people’s smartphone photos by changing them less. Instagram has not released new filters since 2012. And its original filters compensated for the lower quality of photos taken with earlier smartphones, the company said. But now we’re in the heyday of …
Returning to its roots as a mainframe software provider, Compuware has spun off its application performance management software unit. Users of mainframe optimization software and APM software could each benefit from the split. The companies acting separately should be better able to serve constituents than a monolithic single entity could, …
Apple didn’t violate antitrust law by restricting music bought on iTunes from being played on devices other than iPods, a federal jury has decided. The jury in Oakland, California, decided in Apple’s favor on Tuesday after a trial that featured testimony on video by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. …
Jaguar Land Rover has revealed two new research projects it’s working on: a 360 Virtual Urban Windscreen to give a driver a 360-degree view outside the car and a ghost car navigation aid that projects a virtual vehicle ahead of you to follow. The ghost car is a navigation aid for busy …
The group responsible for the attack on Sony Pictures, the GOP (Guardians of Peace), has moved away from their normal rhetoric, issuing a thinly veiled threat of terror attacks on Christmas Day; the date when Sony’s picture The Interview is set for general release. The threat was attached to a …
The hackers who attacked Sony Pictures have apparently moved on to a new tactic: attempting to spread fear among the general public. In a message on Tuesday, the hackers allude to attacks on movie theaters showing “The Interview.” Due to open Dec. 25, the movie is a comedy about celebrity …
From rattled airline passengers who fear the coming of smartphones to jurors who don’t know a smartphone from a tablet, here are some of the colorful quotes from IT news in 2014. Give the audience a grin “The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from …
The state of Linux in 2015? We’re coming to the end of the year, and the first batch of predictions about what 2015 might have in store for Linux have arrived. Share your own predictions about Linux and 2015 in the comments below. What do you think will happen? Jack …
The information and communications technology sector has almost doubled its contribution to Nigeria’s GDP in the last three years and is expected to be a main driver of economic growth, according to the country’s ICT minister. “The industry currently contributes 9.58 percent to GDP (Q3 2014) and is further enabling …
The NBASE-T Alliance – a recently formed umbrella group of networking industry players dedicated to keeping standard Ethernet cabling relevant – announced a dozen new members on Monday, including big names such as Intel, Qualcomm and Brocade. The group was founded just seven weeks ago by a consortium of four …
The Large Hadron Collider, the atom smasher that has hunted for antimatter and the elusive Higgs boson, shut down in February 2013 for an overhaul and upgrade. Now, scientists are getting ready to fire up the collider, which has been called “one of the greatest engineering milestones of mankind,” again. …
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Earlier this month, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook each welcomed China’s top Internet regulator to their headquarters, for visits marked by smiles and laughter. Looking at photos from the meetings, it would be easy to think the companies have a cozy relationship with the world’s most populous nation. In fact, 2014 …
New phones, tablets, and smartwatches sure are exciting — but sometimes it’s the smaller stuff that really makes me smile. An app, an accessory, any little thing that brings a breath of fresh air into my Android devices and makes me appreciate just how cool technology can be. That’s why …
It’s no Windows, but… While Apple products have traditionally been a safer refuge for computer users than Windows, malware is no stranger to the Mac. Historically, Windows’s large user base made it a much more appealing target for hackers. But as Apple’s market share began growing, Mac-oriented malware became more …
Earlier this month, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook each welcomed China’s top Internet regulator to their headquarters, for visits marked by smiles and laughter. Looking at photos from the meetings, it would be easy to think the companies have a cozy relationship with the world’s most populous nation. In fact, 2014 …
The beta test of Microsoft’s newish Web-publishing app, Sway, is no longer by invitation-only: the company said today it’s open to all. Since Sway’s October debut, more than 175,000 people have requested an invitation to the trial preview, with thousands more submitting requests daily, Microsoft said in a Monday blog …
Indian mobile Internet provider One97 has taken another step into West Africa’s value added service market with a new audio storytelling portal partnership with Nigeria-based mobile operator Glo. The deal will enable Glo’s users in Benin, and later Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, listen to favorite stories via their phones …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a Phoenix-based equity research firm owner who allegedly manipulated the market for a publicly traded stock he was soliciting investors to purchase. The SEC Enforcement Division alleges that after a company hired his firm to assist in two private placement offerings, …
Saying that Facebook’s new privacy policy could violate Dutch data protection laws, the privacy regulator in the Netherlands has asked it to postpone its introduction pending an investigation. But the social network won’t hold back the rollout of new terms and policies on Jan. 1, and was “surprised and disappointed” …
In an era of slick gadgets, PCs are the dinosaurs, ensnared in wire clutter, sporting tired 2D cameras and stricken with the occasional blue screen of death. Technology coming up in 2015, though, is set to make PCs more interactive, fun and perhaps nosier than you’d like them to be. …
A grinch may be snatching away some year-end holiday time, forcing Linux system administrators to fill a gaping security hole in their systems. Named after the proverbially grumpy Dr. Seuss character, the grinch vulnerability could affect all Linux systems, potentially providing attackers with unfettered root access, according to security service …
In an era of slick gadgets, PCs are the dinosaurs, ensnared in wire clutter, sporting tired 2D cameras and stricken with the occasional blue screen of death. Technology coming up in 2015, though, is set to make PCs more interactive, fun and perhaps nosier than you’d like them to be. …