The U.S. government once threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to assist with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo said Thursday. Yahoo said it was threatened with the fines after it challenged surveillance powers granted to the U.S. government under the Protect America Act of 2007. The information …
The U.S. government once threatened to fine Yahoo US$250,000 a day if it failed to assist with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo said Thursday. read more
Back-to-back solar flares, including one that received the highest classification of “X-Class,” are striking the earth. U.S. scientists say electronics shouldn’t be hurt, but there could be some GPS issues. The larger of the two coronal mass ejections (CME) will hit sometime between late Friday morning and mid-day. The first …
An effort to free up some of the airwaves used by TV broadcasts and make them available for wireless broadband took a big step forward this week in the U.S. read more
SanDisk today unveiled what it calls the world’s highest capacity SD card — more than half a terabyte. The new SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card comes with up to 512GB of capacity and is being marketed at videographers who record at 4K (3840x2160p) resolution and users of high-speed …
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy cloud platform provider Eucalyptus, stepping up HP's efforts in the growing field of cloud computing, read more
Engineers at Stanford University have developed a tiny radio that's about as big as an ant and that's cheap and small enough that it could help realize the "Internet of things" — the world of everyday objects that send and receive data via the Internet. read more
Facebook might be taking a page from Snapchat. Facebook told Computerworld on Thursday that it is testing whether to offer disappearing posts and comments with a small group of mobile users. “We’re running a small pilot of a feature on Facebook for iOS that lets people schedule deletion of their …
For the past year, manufacturers have heralded OLED ultra-high definition (UHD) TVs as a harbinger of sea change in the home entertainment industry, affording thinner and even flexible panels with higher quality pictures than today’s LCD sets. Then last week, China-based TCL, the third largest manufacturer of flat-screen TVs in …
Microsoft yesterday pulled another patch, this one released Tuesday, that was meant to fix OneDrive for Business, the online storage service for employees running Office 365. On Wednesday, Microsoft revised the advisory associated with “KB2889866,” the designation for a non-security update that shipped Sept. 9, part of a larger collection …
NASA’s robotic rover Curiosity is about to take on the mission it was sent to Mars to perform. After a little more than two years on the Martian surface, Curiosity finished a more than six-mile trip to the base of Mount Sharp and is about to begin its next, and …
Google has added features to Drive and the Docs apps suite to make the products easier to use for people who are blind or have poor eyesight, an issue over which the company has been criticized. read more
Interest in Dropbox is growing among users, and law enforcement too. read more
Government-controlled media outlets in China yesterday speculated that the iPhone 6 will not be immediately sold there because Apple retaliated against carrier partners who leaked details of the new models before their launch. read more
SAP has made a series of updates to its InfiniteInsight predictive modeling software and Lumira data-visualization tool in a bid to shore up its foothold in the analytics market. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the creation of a new office within the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) that will coordinate efforts to provide data-driven risk assessment tools and models to support a wide range of SEC activities. Since its creation in 2009, DERA has collaborated …
A recent data breach at retailer Home Depot and a leak of celebrity nude pictures from Apple's iCloud service raise questions about the companies' data security practices, two U.S. senators said Thursday. read more
More than two-thirds of U.S. respondents in a new survey say that decades-old telephone regulations should not apply to the Internet, which suggests that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission should stay away from reclassifying broadband as a regulated public utility, an advocacy group said. read more
Microsoft is expanding a program to put Windows in smart devices, robots and Internet-connected appliances, following overwhelming response for developer hardware. The company is putting a stripped-down version of Windows 8 on Intel’s Galileo development board to bring the OS to a “smaller class of devices,” said Colin Murphy, senior …
In today’s fast-paced environment, where digital transformation creates opportunities to literally re-wire how business gets done, the concept of a totally software-defined data center is vital to enable the speed of change required for organizations to stay competitive and react to ever-changing customer needs. In my prior blog, “digital transformation …
Last year, the big change to the then-new iPhone 5S was the addition of a gold option. This year, Apple upped the ante by offering not one but two screen sizes — both of them larger than the 4-in. screen on last year’s flagship iPhone. Apple calls these Retina HD …
Brian Stevens, the former chief technology officer for Red Hat, is now managing Google Cloud. As Red Hat CTO, Stevens was instrumental in preparing the enterprise Linux software provider for the cloud, including its adoption of the OpenStack software for running cloud services. Brian Stevens According to his LinkedIn profile, …
The launch of Apple's mobile payment system could prove a turning point in the battle to secure your debit and credit card information from hackers. read more
The BBC has iover 100 APIs that are used both internally and are open to external partners to develop new products. …
Research among over 1,000 executives at large firms around the world found 89% rated big data as “very important” or “extremely important” to their businesses’ digital transformation. …
Oracle has wrapped up its US$5.3 billion acquisition of Micros, maker of hardware and software for the hospitality industry, in its biggest deal since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Micros will form the basis for a new global business unit at Oracle focused on hotels, food and beverage, …