Is a remote-wipe policy a crude approach to BYOD security?
While the capability to remotely wipe data from lost or stolen mobile phones may help CIOs sleep at night, it may be an outdated approach to BYOD security. read more
While the capability to remotely wipe data from lost or stolen mobile phones may help CIOs sleep at night, it may be an outdated approach to BYOD security. read more
If you're upgrading to iOS 8 on Wednesday, you must resist the urge to upgrade to iCloud Drive if you want to continue to sync your phone to your Mac. Why? Well, iCloud Drive only works with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. And you all know which OS we're …
A U.S. appeals court has thrown out a US$368.2 million award against Apple in a patent infringement case brought by patent-holding and software company VirnetX. read more
Android users have known for years that larger screen phones are better, and now massive iPhone 6 sales have given them the last laugh. Plus: Android's session hijacking security vulnerability, and Android Police reviews the Moto 360 smartwatch. read more
A series of leaked screenshots shows the Cortana digital assistant in action on Windows 9. This is good news for the new operating system, and one more reason to look forward to it in action. The German site WinFuture, which has released a series of leaked Windows 9 screenshots and …
A federal appellate court today threw out a 2012 judgment against Apple that required it to pay $368 million to VirnetX for patent infringement by the Cupertino Calif. company’s FaceTime video calling service and its implementation of VPN (virtual private networks). In an order filed today by the U.S. Court …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an employee in an international law firm’s IT department with insider trading ahead of several mergers and acquisitions involving firm clients being advised on the deals. The SEC alleges that Dimitry Braverman, a senior information technology professional at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, …
In a move that will collect a lot of infrastructure software under one roof, mainframe software provider Micro Focus has started proceedings to merge with Attachmate Group, owners of Novell and Suse Linux, for about $1.2 billion. The combined company should have yearly revenue of $1.4 billion, with more than …
The Securities and Exchange Commission, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced today they will jointly host events to inform small business owners and entrepreneurs about new options that are and will become available for capital raising under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. The events are …
How does the new Moto X look and feel? It may sound crazy, but a lot of that is actually up to you. We can talk all day about how the phone is bigger than last year’s model (it is — though it’s still smaller than the Galaxy S5 or …
In an effort to commercialize its Watson analysis technology, IBM is testing a new service that can answer questions business managers might have about their data. On Tuesday, IBM launched a beta of Watson Analytics, an interactive Q&A service designed to answer questions and highlight trends within sets of enterprise …
The default browser in Android versions older than 4.4 has a vulnerability that allows malicious websites to bypass a critical security mechanism and take control of a user’s authenticated sessions on other sites. The issue is a universal cross-site scripting flaw that stems from how the browser handles javascript: strings …
A growing number of mobile Internet outages were caused by bugs as networks become more software dependent. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's deadline for the public to comment on the agency's proposed net neutrality rules passed Monday with more than 3 million comments filed, by far a record number for an FCC proceeding. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s deadline for the public to comment on the agency’s proposed net neutrality rules passed Monday with more than 3 million comments filed, by far a record number for an FCC proceeding. The 3 million comments, as of midday Monday, eclipsed the 1.4 million complaints the …
In a move that will collect a lot of infrastructure software under one roof, mainframe software provider Micro Focus has started proceedings to merge with Attachmate Group, owners of Novell and Suse Linux, for approximately US$1.2 billion. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the latest sanctions in a continuing enforcement initiative uncovering certain hedge fund advisers and private equity firms that have illegally participated in an offering of a stock after short selling it during a restricted period. The SEC last year announced the initiative to …
Apple yesterday released the third public beta of OS X Yosemite, shipping the preview a few days earlier than expected. The update, labeled build “14A361p,” accompanied the debut of the eighth developer preview, also on Monday. The latter was available only to registered developers, who pay $99 annually for access …
Image by REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Solar energy projects may get the most hype but there are many other alternative energy projects being developed across the globe. Here we take a look at some of the more interesting ventures. Image by REUTERS/Steve Marcus To read this article in full or to leave …
Meet iHolo. This innovative (though hypothetical) startup sells a tiny cube that hooks into smartphones and projects a holographic image above the screen. Now we can see actual 3D holographic characters and movie explosions, hovering right in front of us! There’s just one problem: “Holovids” require an incredibly fast connection, …
Micron today announced a new SSD that uses its densest process to date and has a chip that can program the memory to act as high performance SLC or high-capacity MLC flash. The M600 SSD is a client-class SSD that uses Micron’s new 16 nanometer (nm) lithography with 128Gb NAND …
You’d be forgiven for thinking Panasonic’s latest gadget is a smartphone. It’s a slim rectangle with a touchscreen and LTE connectivity. But officially, it’s a digital camera. The Lumix Smart Camera DMC-CM1 was unveiled Monday at Photokina in Cologne, Germany, one of the world’s largest trade shows for photography. It …
The Wi-Fi Direct standard for linking two devices without a LAN is about to get easier to use. Wi-Fi Direct is the peer-to-peer version of the hugely popular wireless technology that the Wi-Fi Alliance has been promoting and facilitating for 15 years. It lets individual devices, including PCs, printers, TVs …
A banking trojan, known for its small size but powerful capabilities, has expanded the number of financial institutions from which it can collect data, according to security vendor Avast. Tiny Banker, also known as Tinba, was discovered around mid-2012 after it infected thousands of computers in Turkey. The malware is …
Connecticut’s attorney general is concerned about the privacy implications of Apple Watch’s handling of consumers’ health information. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, George Jepsen asked for a meeting with company representatives to discuss his concerns over how personal consumer information collected through Apple Watch will be stored …
Facebook is releasing mcrouter, its software for turning many cache servers around the world into one distributed system, as open source. The company announced the release on Monday at its @Scale conference in San Francisco, where it also launched a new open-source project called TODO (Talk Openly, Develop Openly) to …