The strength of Apple's revised encryption scheme in iOS 8 hinges on users choosing a strong passcode or password, which they rarely do, according to a Princeton University fellow. read more
Another startup wants to offer mobile messaging to enterprises, even though it's questionable whether such a narrow service can sustain a company and even though it's likely that larger enterprise collaboration vendors will jump into this market. read more
Advanced Micro Devices has a new CEO, Lisa Su, who will now try to stabilize a company that’s attempting to diversify into new markets outside PCs and servers. Su will replace Rory Read, who has stepped down from the post. Su solidified her position as the second-in-command to Read when …
Overly broad U.S. government surveillance is breaking down trust on the Internet in ways that could hurt users everywhere and make it harder to launch new kinds of services, tech executives told a U.S. senator pushing for reforms. Revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) monitoring are leading foreign governments to …
Advanced Micro Devices has a new CEO, Lisa Su, who will now try to stabilize a company that's attempting to diversify into new markets outside PCs and servers. read more
Overly broad U.S. government surveillance is breaking down trust on the Internet in ways that could hurt users everywhere and make it harder to launch new kinds of services, tech executives told a U.S. senator pushing for reforms. read more
Worldwide PC shipments fell slightly in the third quarter this year, but the drop wasn’t as big as IDC had originally projected, with expanded offerings of inexpensive laptops and a saturation of tablets in some areas helping to improve the numbers, the tech industry research firm said Wednesday. Hardware makers …
Worldwide PC shipments fell slightly in the third quarter this year, but the drop wasn't as big as IDC had originally projected, with expanded offerings of inexpensive laptops and a saturation of tablets in some areas helping to improve the numbers, the tech industry research firm said Wednesday. read more
A Dallas man who became the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has died. And while the hospital that treated him has retracted a claim that its electronic health records (EHR) system contributed to a lapse in his diagnosis, experts are skeptical that the system worked properly. The …
Apple today announced it will host a news conference Oct. 16 on its Cupertino, Calif. campus, where analysts expect it to unveil new iPad tablets. The invitations, which went out to media and analysts, were Apple-cryptic, with the tag line of only, “It’s been way too long.” Apple’s invites are …
Georgia Tech scientists have developed an app that creates captions on Google Glass for users who are hard of hearing. A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology developed speech-to-text software for Google’s wearable technology. Using Glass and an Android-based smartphone, the app converts speech to text and …
Just as meaningful metrics have long been harvested from Web traffic reports, so too can an organization learn more about potential customers by carefully studying how they use its APIs, an industry expert advised attendees at the Intel Business of APIs conference. read more
Just as meaningful metrics have long been harvested from Web traffic reports, so too can an organization learn more about potential customers by carefully studying how they use its APIs, an industry expert advised attendees at the Intel Business of APIs conference. Many organizations may keep basic statistics on how …
ORLANDO — Steve Wozniak’s love of engineering appears to be as bright today as it was when he built Apple’s first systems. “Young engineers mean the most to me in the world,” said Wozniak, who appeared at Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo. The Apple co-founder said he loves to appear before young crowds …
The U.S. and other nations should look toward Internet voting to make it easier for disabled and elderly people to cast ballots, and to increase participation among young people, but online security remains a huge hurdle, according to a new paper for the Atlantic Council and McAfee. read more
Sprint’s WiMax network, launched in 2008 as the first commercial 4G system in the U.S., will finally shut down in November 2015. The country’s third-largest carrier confirmed Tuesday that it will end its WiMax service on Nov. 6, 2015. It had disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last …
Microsoft wants to promote the use of OneDrive for Business among Office 365 customers, so it’s building links between the work cloud storage service and Outlook Web App (OWA), the suite’s browser-based email interface. Over the coming weeks, Microsoft will roll out an option in OWA’s interface to attach OneDrive …
Science is hated. Real technological progress has stalled. And what we call innovation today really isn't very innovative. read more
Outlier, a startup with a sound pedigree in network security, is launching an endpoint threat-detection system that sets itself apart from competitors by working without the need for an agent on every machine. Greg Hoglund Rather than installing software on every endpoint to gather forensics, the system uses data gathered …
Sprint's WiMax network, launched in 2008 as the first commercial 4G system in the U.S., will finally shut down in November 2015. read more
AT&T will pay $105 million to settle complaints from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and 51 state-level governments that it made millions of dollars through unauthorized third-party charges on customers’ mobile-phone bills. The settlement, announced Wednesday by the two agencies and 51 state attorneys general, includes …
IBM has teamed with Xamarin to make it easier for C# developers to integrate back-end systems like databases with mobile apps. The growing popularity of smartphones has put pressure on IT departments to make enterprise systems available on mobile devices. What Xamarin lets them do is take advantage of C# …
Microsoft isn’t the only one running a preview program that collects data from participants: so does Apple. OS X Yosemite’s public beta — the sneak peek Apple launched on July 24 — collects a variety of data from users who download and install the preview. “In order to test and …
Around 45 percent of Android devices have a browser that is vulnerable to two serious security issues, but some countries have a considerably larger percentage of affected users than others, according to data from mobile security firm Lookout. The two security issues were discovered over the past month by a …
Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft representatives will discuss concerns about online radicalization and jihadist propaganda with EU officials at an informal dinner today. The dinner attendees will discuss challenges posed by terrorists’ use of the Internet and possible responses, the European Commission said. They will also discuss tools and techniques …
“It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime,” actress Jennifer Lawrence told Vanity Fair, breaking her silence about her stolen sexting photos. “It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting.” Yesterday, the same day the article was published, someone uploaded two of Lawrence’s naked photos to her Wikipedia page. …