Home Depot spent $43 million in its third quarter dealing with the fallout of one of the largest ever data breaches, highlighting the costly nature of security failures. The retailer said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it expects $15 million of that cost will be reimbursed by a …
In its latest desperation move, Blackberry says it will pay up to $550 to anyone who trades an iPhone for a Blackberry Passport. The deal kicks off on December 1, but it’s not worth waiting for even if you are the rare bird who’s looking to defect from Apple. Blackberry …
Breaking up Hewlett-Packard is “totally the right thing to do for this company,” CEO Meg Whitman said Tuesday, after HP reported declines in revenue and profit for the last quarter. “We’re going to make more progress as separate companies than as two companies together,” Whitman told financial analysts on a …
Chip-and-PIN payment cards have a strong supporter in the hotbed of payment technologies, with San Francisco’s district attorney promoting the new technology as a way to cut down on fraud. As nearby tech startups like Square and giants like Apple and Google invent new ways to buy things, San Francisco …
Adobe released an emergency patch on Tuesday to fix a Flash Player vulnerability that was fixed last month but was quickly exploited again. The company had issued a patch for the flaw, called CVE-2104-8439, but attackers soon found a way around that fix. The latest update to Flash adds a …
Three days after saying stock of its new Band smart wristband would be replenished throughout the coming holidays, Microsoft changed course. In an email to potential Band customers sent late Monday, Microsoft said “we no longer have any [Bands] available for online sale” and urged customers to check local Microsoft …
PC-BSD 10.1 review Systemd has caused some Linux users to look around for alternative operating systems. PC-BSD is one such option, and the newest version has just been released. LinuxBSDos.com has a full review of PC-BSD 10.1. LinuxBSDos.com LinuxBSDos.com spent four days with PC-BSD 10.1 and notes some serious problems …
Samsung may be dialing back its instant messaging service, ChatOn. The Korea Times reports that the company will start shutting it off gradually in parts of the world where its usage is low. However, Samsung may not nix the service entirely. It’s currently available in 120 countries and 63 different …
Industrial 3D printer maker Stratasys has announced it’s selling a professional grade printer on Amazon for the first time. The machine, the Mojo 3D Printer, will retail for $6,000. While that may seem like a high price for a printer that can fit on your desktop, companies interested in rapid …
Everybody wants to join the DevOps movement. Everybody wants their developers and their operations people to work more closely together and take advantage of greater internal IT harmony with the result of higher agility and a faster time to market. But a new study sponsored by Microsoft finds that while …
Google on Monday gave traditional Google plug-ins a stay of execution and instead outlined a three-step plan that will finalize their demise in 10 months. The delay was the latest move in a year-long plan by Google to ban plug-ins built to a decades-old standard, a decision it has pitched …
It’s time to kiss the tablet boom goodbye, as shipments of the once-dominant Apple iPad decline amid a worldwide slowdown for the devices. Shipments of all tablets worldwide will increase by just 7.2 percent this year, compared to 52.5 percent in 2013, according to a projection from research firm IDC. …
An industry consortium today released a roadmap that new recording technologies could yield 100TB hard drives in about 10 years. That density, 10 times the capacity of today’s biggest hard drives, will be achieved through the use of up-and-coming techniques such as laser-assisted recording technology. ASTC ASTC’s roadmap shows HAMR …
If you’re using a smartphone as a hotspot, you aren’t alone. Sales of USB sticks and embedded PC modems are plummeting as a result of that use. Shipments of these products are expected to decline by 24 percent by year end, following a 17 percent drop last year, according to …
If ads on Twitter weren’t annoying enough, some will start asking for your credit card info, in the hopes you’ll load up on store discounts. Twitter Offers, launched Tuesday, lets companies incorporate in-store promotions in ads that appear in users’ feeds. This is not a way to buy things on …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged HSBC’s Swiss-based private banking arm with violating federal securities laws by failing to register with the SEC before providing cross-border brokerage and investment advisory services to U.S. clients. HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay $12.5 million to settle the …
U.S. Internet users have a limited understanding of what net neutrality means and what protections are contained in company privacy policies, according to the results of a national survey by the Pew Research Center. Just 61 percent of people responding to Pew’s Web IQ survey correctly answered a multiple-choice question …
If analysts are right, worldwide technology spending will total $3.8 trillion this year. A significant chunk of that money will be devoted to re-engineering business processes and customer experiences for the digital world. And unfortunately much of it will be wasted. When it comes to going digital, companies often make …
Here’s one flight delay that European Union citizens might appreciate: The European Parliament has grounded an agreement that would have sent more passenger data winging its way to Canadian law enforcers. And like other flight delays, it could have huge repercussions — in this case for similar data exchange deals …
Word that the Federal Aviation Administration might take a very hard line on commercial drone use has those with designs on such activity nervous. But as for big enterprise IT vendors, it’s really hard to tell what they think because they’re keeping any plans in this field very hush-hush. The …
HP’s $200 Stream 11 has something to prove: that you can enjoy a small, cheap Windows laptop as much as users have enjoyed small, cheap Chromebooks for the past couple of years. The rise of Chromebooks for Web browsing and basic productivity has threatened the borders of Microsoft’s Windows empire. …
“Nice to meet you all,” wrote Hyung-Jin Shin, using only his eyes. From his adjustable bed, Shin made the words appear on the computer screen using Eyecan+, an eye-tracking device developed by Samsung Electronics. “I’m happy that eye mouse is developed in Korea,” he continued. “The eye mouse is not …
If you’re looking for cool tech gifts this season, look no further — here are half a dozen products your Mac will love you for. Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD Apple’s speedy Thunderbolt I/O is smart enough to handle FireWire 800, HDMI, Mini DisplayPort and Ethernet traffic so long …
If you are looking to bring your skills into more current practice, learn a new programming language, or just experiment with taking a couple of technical classes, you are living in the best of times. There are a lot of free classes taught by some of the best teachers in …
BlackBerry’s pitch to get back into the warm embrace of corporate IT shops seems logical enough at first glance: We’re the most secure in mobile. Mobile is where all of your data and interactions are heading. Therefore you should give us all of your corporate business. But when you take …
To get employees more involved in securing their Apps accounts, Google has tried to simplify how they monitor log-in activity and configure security settings. It’s key for Apps users to get more engaged in this manner, because that way they complement the efforts of their company’s IT department and of …