The Federal Trade Commission today said a federal court has temporarily shut down two telemarketing operations that it says conned tens of thousands of consumers out of more than $120 million by deceptively marketing computer software and tech support services. The FTC claims that since at least 2012, the defendants …
Apple Walmart has a Pre-Black Friday deal for you on the Apple iPad Air 2 Walmart, which already has leaked its Black Friday deals on Apple, Dell, HP and other tech products, just couldn’t stand the lull between now and the day after Thanksgiving. So it has started promoting a …
Hackers will use malware, among other techniques, to break into enterprise systems but once they’re in, they’re likely to switch away from malware to abusing privileged accounts, according to a report released today by CyberArk Software, Ltd., an Israel-based vendor of security solutions for privileged accounts. The report analyses the …
The biggest headcount reduction in Microsoft’s history was driven by a need to invest in new technologies rather than the company’s bottom line, an advisor to CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday. “Any student of the history of the tech industry will see that the mistake companies make from one generation …
Google is employing a big team of lawyers, engineers and paralegals who have so far evaluated over half a million URLs that were requested to be delisted from search results by European citizens, the company said. About six months after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave …
The latest bid to simplify data storage comes from a team that includes Steve Wozniak, a guy who knows a thing or two about making technology easier. The co-founder of Apple has joined former colleagues from flash storage maker Fusion-io at Primary Data, a Silicon Valley startup that says it …
The biggest headcount reduction in Microsoft’s history was driven by a need to invest in new technologies rather than the company’s bottom line, an advisor to CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday. “Any student of the history of the tech industry will see that the mistake companies make from one generation …
The latest bid to simplify data storage comes from a team that includes Steve Wozniak, a guy who knows a thing or two about making technology easier. The co-founder of Apple has joined former colleagues from flash storage maker Fusion-io at Primary Data, a Silicon Valley startup that says it …
An Android Trojan program that’s behind one of the longest running multipurpose mobile botnets has been updated to become stealthier and more resilient. The botnet is mainly used for instant message spam and rogue ticket purchases, but it could be used to launch targeted attacks against corporate networks because the …
Buzzwords are a fact of life in the technology profession. Whether you’ve been in the industry for 30 years (remember WYSIWYG?) or for five (netiquette, anyone?), it’s a good bet you’ve incorporated tech-speak into your everyday conversation, maybe without even knowing it. To read this article in full or to …
Hackathons have been derided for stifling innovation and chilling the vibe of camaraderie. But that doesn’t have to always be the case. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Microsoft bought its way into the storage hardware appliance market with the purchase of StorSimple almost two years ago. With the release of the StorSimple 8100 and 8600 hybrid cloud storage arrays, Microsoft has fully integrated these physical devices with Azure for seamless cloud connectivity. The integration includes the ability …
Understanding all the 802.1X client settings in Windows can certainly help during deployment and support of an 802.1X network. This is especially true when manual configuration of the settings is required, such as in a domain environment or when fine-tuning wireless roaming for latency-sensitive clients and applications, like VoIP and …
A prominent advisor to big-time investors has urged clients to vote against Microsoft’s pay package for its new CEO, Satya Nadella, saying that his compensation this year was out of whack when compared to competing companies and the firm’s track record. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which advises institutional shareholders, recommended …
If Facebook launches a social network for the workplace, CIOs will have to decide whether they can get past Facebook’s history of privacy issues. “That is something that has to be addressed,” said Angela Yochem, global CIO of Philadelphia-based BDP International, a company that specializes in shipping sensitive materials. “We’re …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 17, beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET. The committee will focus on the interests and priorities of emerging and smaller public companies. “Small and emerging companies contribute …
Google is employing a big team of lawyers, engineers and paralegals who have so far evaluated over half a million URLs that were requested to be delisted from search results by European citizens, the company said. About six months after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave …
Enterprise data sets have gotten so voluminous that they can’t fit into even the largest data warehouses, many businesses find. Now, companies running these overstuffed data stores have an on-ramp to newfangled, big-data style processing through a combined effort between analytics systems supplier Teradata and Apache Hadoop distribution provider MapR. …
A federal court in Florida has temporarily shut down two “massive” telemarketing operations that allegedly conned tens of thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by tricking them into fixing nonexistent computer errors, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said. The tech support operations generated more than $120 million since …
NEW ORLEANS — Republican control of the Senate means that one the most fanatical climate change deniers in Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), is now in line to head the Senate subcommittee that oversees science funding. This is not good news for supercomputing. In scientific research, climate change is one …
Giving thanks It’s that time of the year again, when people all across America sit down with their families to a nice home-cooked meal and collectively laugh at the people who did more embarrassing stuff than them. Even if that’s not how you celebrate Thanksgiving, you can at least be …
DEMO Fall 2014 DEMO has served as a launching pad for startups that have gone on to become some of the world’s biggest companies, from Netscape Navigator and TiVo to VMware and Salesforce.com. Here are 15 new products from DEMO Fall 2014 to check out. MakeTime Image by YouTube.com To …
Walking up the gangway to board Royal Caribbean’s tech-laden Quantum of the Seas, it was hard not to marvel. Across the harbor was Manhattan, and at 348 meters, the new ship is almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall. But it’s what the ship contains that made …
Purism’s Librem Linux laptop Purism is seeking crowd-sourced funding for its 15-inch Linux laptop. The Librem laptop is designed to run on truly free software only, there will be no closed-source software included with it (even for drivers). Chris Hoffman at PC World reports on Purism’s free software only laptop: …
An Android Trojan program that’s behind one of the longest running multipurpose mobile botnets has been updated to become stealthier and more resilient. The botnet is mainly used for instant message spam and rogue ticket purchases, but it could be used to launch targeted attacks against corporate networks because the …
Apple and Google are locked in a never-ending game of catch-up. Each time a new version of iOS or Android is announced, there are just as many borrowed features as new ones, as each side studies and pilfers the other’s ideas to find ways to better its own experience. Android …