Apple’s ex-sapphire supplier caved to its former partner because “protracted litigation against one of the largest corporations in the world with over $100 billion of cash would be challenging and expensive,” court documents revealed. In papers filed late Monday with a federal bankruptcy court, GT Advanced Technologies, of Merrimack, N.H., …
IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter’s massive flows of social media data with Big Blue’s analytics software, including Watson. The partnership will involve three major components, according to Wednesday’s announcement. First, IBM will use Twitter data streams for cloud services such as Watson Analytics, Watson …
Google is developing tiny magnetic particles that could help detect cancer and other health problems by coursing through a patient’s bloodstream. Andrew Conrad, head of the Google X research lab’s Life Sciences Team, told the WSJ.D Live conference Tuesday that the particles can be directed toward different parts of the …
IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter’s massive flows of social media data with Big Blue’s analytics software, including Watson. The partnership will involve three major components, according to Wednesday’s announcement. First, IBM will use Twitter data streams for cloud services such as Watson Analytics, Watson …
Cybercriminals have a new tool to make the most of stolen credit card details before payment processors detect the fraud, security researchers warn. A Web-based application called the Voxis Platform is being advertised on underground forums as a tool for cashing out money from stolen credit cards by automating fraudulent …
Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based start-up that wants to provide daily images of every spot on earth, lost 26 micro satellites when an Orbital Sciences rocket exploded shortly after lift-off Tuesday. The Antares rocket burst into flames seconds after rising into the sky from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, …
Android fans, behold: In my hands sits the long-fabled successor to Google’s Nexus 7 tablet — oh yes, the one and only Nexus 9. The Nexus 9 is noteworthy for a few reasons. First, it’s a Google Nexus device, which means it’s designed with close input from Google’s own Android …
In a media environment consumed with mass hysteria over Ebola, ISIS and the mid-term elections, EMC, Cisco and VCE’s joint decision that VCE will become an independent company within EMC’s Federation didn’t generate as much buzz as it should have. That’s really too bad, since the agreement is a big …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against an investment advisory firm and three top officials for violating the “custody rule” that requires firms to follow certain procedures when they control or have access to client money or securities. Advisory firms with custody of private fund assets can comply …
There’s been a big stinky splash about Verizon using a privacy-decimating “perma cookie” so advertisers can track Verizon customers across the web. It works by Verizon injecting a Unique Identifier Header (UIDH) at the end of HTTP connections. As Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford, explained, “In …
Ассортимент Huawei пополнился еще одним смартфоном с поддержкой LTE. Смартфон Huawei Honor 4X обладает 5,5-дюймовым HD-экраном с разрешением 1280×720 точек. Новинка работает на базе операционной системы Android 4.4 с программной оболочкой Emotion UI 3.0, а также снабжено относительно мощным несъёмным аккумулятором. Устройство оборудовано 13-мегапиксельной основной и 5-мегапиксельной фронтальной камерами. Возможные варианты цветового исполнения: бежевый, голубой …
Not your average iOS update Don’t be fooled: iOS 8.1 is no mere “dot” release. This rapid update from Apple is chock-full of great new features, several of which could change how you work, shop, and share. iOS 8.1 is available for the iPhone 4S and later, iPad 2 and later, …
Someone has collapsed on the ground from cardiac arrest and there’s no defibrillator around. What to do? Summon an ambulance drone. A graduate student at Delft University of Technology in Netherlands has created a prototype drone that can autonomously navigate to a location in minutes and deliver a defibrillator, a …
Encrypting data traffic is mandatory for safeguarding information. But when attackers use encryption to mask their activity, it can be hard for enterprises to figure out what they’re stealing. Gigamon, based in Santa Clara, California, says it has developed a capability to deeply analyze all SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer …
Facebook has revealed a little more about what compelled it to spend close to $19 billion earlier this year to buy mobile messaging service WhatsApp — a deal that had many scratching their heads at the huge sum. Roughly $15.3 billion of the price Facebook paid is attributed to “goodwill,” …
Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from early 2013 to early this year, according to a new study from a think tank advocating for strong net neutrality rules. Five major U.S. broadband providers, including Comcast, AT&T …
After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich Internet applications. “HTML5 brings the next generation of the Web,” said W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe. “It wasn’t so …
Sensitive technology on board an Antares rocket that was headed for the International Space Station could slow investigation into its explosion shortly after lift-off on Tuesday evening. The rocket was just a few seconds into its flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia when flames from the rocket’s exhaust …
Hackers targeted an unclassified White House network but did not damage any systems, a White House official said Tuesday. In the course of assessing recent threats, “activity of concern” was found on the unclassified Executive Office of the President network, the official said under condition of anonymity. “Any such activity …
Meanwhile beyond the smoke and mirrors of mainstream Apple reporting some may want to take a look at the latest claim — OS X Yosemite achieved the kind of adoption in four days that took Microsoft’s Windows 8 two years to accomplish. Two years In that two years, Apple has …
Image by REUTERS/Stringer If you’re an IT security professional, you probably don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about bugs, plants or fungus, at least not during your work day. However, researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology think that you should. In a recently published paper, “Security – …
Investigators began studying the telemetry from the Antares rocket that exploded on launch Tuesday night and began the painstaking job of combing through potentially dangerous debris at daybreak Wednesday. Carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies and scientific equipment, the unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Cygnus cargo craft and the Antares rocket it …
While the reported $40 billion of insider threat losses for the US economy seem scary, many companies consider insider threats to be more like a ‘black swan’ event – highly visible, but extremely rare, abstract, and too hard-to-predict in order for it to constitute a real threat. But it is …
AT&T it seems, is caught between a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a hard place. Taken to task by the FTC for redefining the word ‘unlimited’, AT&T’s definition allegedly changes depending on the amount of data a customer consumes per month. More than 2 gigabytes, it appears that unlimited means …
As the recent scandal over leaked celebrity photographs reminded us all, people use their electronic devices for very personal pursuits in the era of smartphone ubiquity. Depending on the age and inclination of its owner, a modern-day digital device might contain not just nude selfies like those that were shared …
It’s the early 1990s, and this pilot fish at a big computer manufacturer is the only field service rep in the office when a customer call comes in. “You need to go to this hospital and fix their Big Machine,” says boss — knowing full well that fish hasn’t been …