Image by flickr/Trevor Mattea Earlier this year NASA published a catalog of software code it has developed over the years which you can now access for free. While NASA has a history of making technology it develops available to the public, other developers of proprietary software will sometimes also lift …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has named Steven J. Levine as the Associate Director for the Investment Adviser/Investment Company examination program in its Chicago office. He will oversee the IA/IC examination program in nine Midwestern states, with a staff of approximately 65 examiners, accountants, and attorneys. …
Extending Office 365 functionality to third-party developers, Microsoft has exposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) so other companies can add features and capabilities to the online productivity service. The company announced the new functionality at the TechEd Europe conference, held this week in Barcelona. The APIs are a …
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday called the battle with retailers like Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS and others over mobile payments only a “skirmish” while speaking at the Wall Street Journal‘s technology conference. “I think it’s a skirmish, is where we see it,” Cook said when asked if the refusal …
ARM, whose processors are used in most mobile devices today, is supercharging its latest Mali graphics technology to bring 4K graphics to tablets and smartphones while also extending device battery life. It’s becoming important for mobile devices to have good graphics cores to handle higher-resolution screens, cameras and external 4K …
While businesses have always been careful about how much they spent on electricity, today’s displays are making it a lot easier to keep bills lower — and the environment safer. For example, I measured a four-year-old 27-in. Apple Cinema Display as using 101 watts of power. However, the three 27-in. …
Start-up XYZPrinting today released its first all-in-one 3D printer, which uses a 3D laser scanner to replicate objects placed inside the machine. While other 3D printing companies sell handheld scanners or separate scanning tables, XYZPrinting is the first to incorporate scanning into a consumer-grade product. The da Vinci 1.0 AiO …
Apple’s new NFC mobile payment system — Apple Pay — has received generally positive reviews from users and journalists alike. On the other hand, a group of retailers known as Merchant Customer Exchange recently had a less-than-enthusiastic reaction to Apple’s new wireless wonder. So unenthused, the group has now blocked …
The founder of a powerboat racing business is looking to use the cloud to track the company boat’s performance during offshore races and keep fans and racing officials updated with animated race visualizations. “It really pushes the envelope…, being able to develop [a cloud technology] quickly and having a robustness …
Earlier this year I wrote about the source code for some classic proprietary software which has been made available to the public. Much of that code was released by or in conjunction with the Computer History Museum, which is a great source of this sort of stuff. Recently the museum …
A diversification of targets for a clever keylogging attack suggests that several hacking groups may be using the “ScanBox” framework, which spies on users without installing malicious software. ScanBox was found in August by the security company Alien Vault on the website of a large industrial company that develops simulation …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has changed its H-1B record retention policy to the concern of people who study the visa’s impact on the workforce and economy. In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or electronic, “are …
Microsoft is making Office 365 a considerably sweeter deal with unlimited OneDrive storage for all users, as the commoditization of pure cloud storage continues. The free upgrade will roll out to all subscribers “over the coming months,” Microsoft says. Existing subscribers can jump ahead in line by signing up through Microsoft’s …
Everspin has signed up chip maker Global Foundries as a manufacturing partner for its next-generation MRAM (Magnetoresistive RAM) memory chips, in a development that should help the promising technology move toward mass production. MRAM is an emerging memory technology that offers the speed of fast memory technologies like SRAM and …
Researchers from the University of Central Florida and Eindhoven University of Technology say that they’ve developed a new fiber optic medium that allows data to be sent and received at up to 255Tbps, a roughly twenty-fold increase over current fiber. The innovation, described in a paper for the current online …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a global water management, construction, and drilling company headquartered in Texas with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by making improper payments to foreign officials in several African countries in order to obtain beneficial treatment and reduce its tax liability. After Layne …
The newest enterprise edition of the Suse Linux distribution allows administrators to go back in time, for instance, to immediately before they made that fatal system-crippling mistake. Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) features a system snapshot and rollback capability that allows the user to boot the system to …
One of the first things a malware analyst does when encountering a suspicious executable file is to extract the text strings found inside it, because they can provide immediate clues about its purpose. This operation has long been considered safe, but it can actually lead to a system compromise, a …
Targeting message transfer agents (MTAs), and mail delivery agents (MDAs), criminals are using Shellshock as a means to create botnets. The process is slow, but working, thanks to unpatched installations of Bash or certain implementations of it. When it was disclosed in September, Shellshock – the common name given to …
SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil “starter kits” designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews. The starter kits provide the hardware and software necessary for a simple lab proof of concept up to …
A partnership that lets Wi-Fi users get on free public networks in San Francisco and San Jose, California, with a one-time joining process now also covers a hotspot along the River Thames in London. The cities at either end of Silicon Valley used the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Passpoint specification to set …
Your next refrigerator or television may also double as a wireless charger for your mobile devices and wearables. Home appliance maker Haier announced today that it has signed a joint development agreement with Energous, creator of the WattUp wireless router that sends power in a 15-ft. radius using radio frequency …
The Tor Project has flagged a server in Russia after a security researcher found it slipped in malware when users were downloading files. Tor is short for The Onion Router, which is software that offers users a greater degree of privacy when browsing the Internet by routing traffic through a …
IT salaries will remain mostly stagnant in 2015, except for workers with highly coveted skill sets, according to a report tracking IT salaries and skills demand in the coming years. “When you look at the actual salaries, just speaking in general, what you see is a lot of highly paid …
On Saturday, CVS Pharmacy customers using Apple Pay reported that the retailer had joined Rite Aid in disabling its NFC credit terminals, according to MacRumors. CVS’s reasoning behind the end of NFC support is simple enough: Leaked internal documents published by SlashGear indicate that the company is “currently working with …
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