Ghana’s plan to remove import duties on smartphones, a move other African nations have contemplated, will help indigenous companies that are “playing by the rules,” according to a top executive for RLG, which makes laptops, desktops and mobile phones. RLG, which has its global headquarters in Dubai, runs phone assembly …
Finnish company Jolla is following through on a promise to add more features to its Linux-based Sailfish OS, with plans to offer more personalization and a feature called “Events” that will show messages, calendar events and other information on the screen at once. Since its inception in 2011, Jolla has …
Vulnerabilities with catchy nicknames get more attention from media, customers, and vendors and so get patched more thoroughly than similar vulnerabilities without clever names. According to a report released Tuesday by security researcher Secunia ApS, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, names such as Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle make it easier for …
When NASA’s new spacecraft, Orion, made its maiden voyage last week, it completed its successful 4.5-hour trip running on a 12-year-old processor and a computer that’s far from state-of-the-art. So how did NASA’s engineers make this old technology work for them in the rigors of space? Testing. Testing. Testing. “It …
As it faces down a litigious assault from rival Cisco, Arista Networks is enhancing its switch operating system to expedite DevOps deployments. Arista this week unveiled EOS+, a version of the operating system with deeper programmability and pre-integrated applications for customizing the network and tightening its alignment with the workloads …
Not surprisingly, Apple yesterday fought a move by several news organizations to make public a two-hour video deposition recorded by former co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011. In its rebuttal to a motion filed earlier in the week by the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN, Apple’s lawyers argued that releasing the …
SAN JOSE — By the end of 2015, all of Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 data center customers will have deployed the company’s new Nexus 9000 switch. That’s not to say they will have retired all of their Catalyst 6500s, according to Rob Soderbery, Cisco senior vice president of enterprise products and …
Uber has been hit with a lawsuit by the district attorneys for Los Angeles and San Francisco that accuses it of misleading consumers over its background checks on drivers and could lead to millions of dollars in fines. The DA’s have also entered into a settlement agreement with rival service …
ralphbaer.com Long before the Xbox came the Brown Box, a creation that defense contractor engineer Ralph Baer and colleagues built in the late 1960s that would become known as the first real video game system. The video game industry this week mourns Baer, a German-born American who has passed away …
Arista Networks’ stock took it on the chin when Cisco slapped the company with patent infringement and copyright law suits last Friday, losing almost 20% of its value at one point as investors and others mulled the long term implications of the suits. The short answer: this is going to …
When the security-focused Blackphone started shipping in June the phone came with a lot of limitations. Nowhere was that more apparent than with third-party apps, which could end up crashing due to a user’s privacy preferences. Blackphone, the company, will look to improve that situation in January when the company …
When it comes to battling sophisticated cyber attacks, Chief Information Security Officers feel well outgunned by the seedy underside of the Internet intent on wrecking havoc on their enterprise environments. IBM’s third annual Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) study of 138 security executives found that 60% said their organizations are …
Apple has named Elevate, a set of brain training games, and Threes!, an addictive numbers game, as its top 2014 app and game, respectively. Elevate Elevate Brain Training app Elevate is a free (with in-app purchases) brain training program from Elevate Labs that the app maker says was “designed in collaboration with …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today penalized Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC for violating the market access rule when it failed to uphold credit limits for a customer firm with a rogue trader who engaged in fraudulent trading of Apple stock. The market access rule requires broker-dealers to have adequate …
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a seriously early jump on its 2015 commencement exercises, naming U.S. CTO and MIT alum Megan Smith as its speaker for the June 5 event. Smith, who has undergraduate (1986) and master’s (1988) degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, was named by President …
One of the most persistent ideas I’ve heard in my decades in IT is that we geeks want democracy at work. Surprisingly, I’ve heard it from managers and executives as often as I have from front-line geeks. But when you scratch the surface, you see that we don’t really want …
The release Tuesday of the U.S. Senate’s report that excoriated the Central Intelligence Agency for torturing suspected terrorists will result in retaliation by cyber-hacktivist groups, a security expert predicted today. “I expect there will be some sort of retribution,” said Tom Chapman, director of cyber operations at Edgewave, a San …
Thou shalt not use coffee DRM! I don’t know about you, but I’m not a morning person. Please do not present me with a problem or other drama first thing in the morning because I have zero, zippy, negative, none in the brain functioning department until I’ve had coffee. Since …
Holiday puzzles, activity planning, and time-saving utilities This week’s roundup of new Mac apps brings you a little holiday cheer, a way to keep your burgeoning digital comic library in check, and a couple tools to bring order into the chaos of your daily life. Comickaze 1.1.4 Dov Frankel’s $20 …
IBM and Apple have unveiled the first results of their enterprise IT partnership: 10 mobile applications aimed at businesses in six industries as well as government users. The apps bring IBM’s strength in big data and analysis to Apple’s iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the companies said Wednesday. The apps …
The CEO of Daum Kakao answered police questions Wednesday about accusations that the South Korean mobile messaging service provider failed to take action against child pornography content distributed via its app. Under South Korean law, child pornography covers anything from abusive imagery of prepubescent children to images simply showing the …
I’ve been using Apple’s new iMac with Retina 5K display for the last few days. I’m now convinced all the positive reviews are correct — this is a fabulous Mac capable of high-end performance and equipped with an utterly compelling display. I’ve curated a few details you might not be …
Skype used two Luxembourg companies and an Irish subsidiary to avoid paying corporate income tax during a five year period, according to documents detailing deals with Luxembourg tax authorities. On Tuesday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a new batch of documents in its ongoing investigation into secret …
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Thaddeus Arroyo, president of technology development at AT&T, believes IT leaders must show their organizations how technology will transform both how they do business and how they engage with customers. AT&T “Today’s technology thought leaders,” he says, “are guiding and informing business strategy, not just enabling it.” That kind of …
Yesterday, Swedish cops ripped The Pirate Bay off the net. Today, a few proxies are still around, but the official back-end is still MIA. But while “IP enforcement” groups play Whac-A-Mole, the real criminals aren’t inconvenienced in the slightest. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fire up their VPNs. <!– Not to …