The U.S. Congress is unlikely to pass legislation to end the National Security Agency's widespread collection of U.S. telephone records before leaving Washington, D.C., on a two-month break. read more
Aiming to eliminate a number of onerous data engineering tasks, MapR today updated its distribution of Hadoop to include Apache Drill 0.5. read more
Lyft is bringing its car-pooling service to Los Angeles, even while California regulators say it's illegal. read more
Introducing Matrix, a new messaging standard that wants to make IM, VoIP, and video as interoperable and open as email. read more
Even Gear VR virtual reality headset is promoted for workplace uses. read more
Apple will probably release iOS 8 at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) tomorrow, the traditional time of its mobile operating system upgrade launches. Last week, as it unveiled the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and trumpeted a coming-in-2015 smartwatch, Apple confirmed that it would make iOS 8 …
While the capability to remotely wipe data from lost or stolen mobile phones may help CIOs sleep at night, it may be an outdated approach to BYOD security.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, …