The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against 28 officers, directors, or major shareholders for violating federal securities laws requiring them to promptly report information about their holdings and transactions in company stock. Six publicly-traded companies were charged for contributing to filing failures by insiders or failing to report …
Check out free office suites for Linux. Plus: Disproving outdated myths about Linux, and Linux Journal looks at the Anker desktop charger. read more
A European antitrust probe into Google's search practices will be extended through October, into the term of the next European Commission, a Commissions spokesman said. read more
Phew! What is that awful smell? Some experts claim there is a stench coming from the 58-page DOJ brief that explains how the FBI found the real IP address of the online drug marketplace Silk Road and then located its alleged operator Ross Ulbricht. While the details might sound like …
A major security flaw has been discovered in the most popular WordPress slider plugin out there, Slider Revolution (aka Revolution Slider). It’s imperative that sites using the plugin update to the latest version immediately. read more
Microsoft was happier than you might have thought with Apple’s big iPhone 6 announcement day. The company rolled out another ad slamming Siri as being inferior to Windows Phone’s Cortana digital assistant, and gotten big viewer numbers. Starting earlier this month, Microsoft has been running an aggressive ad campaign touting …
For some of us, it is time to go to back to school. For others it is back to the grind, but at least it looks like September is a relatively light patch cycle. With this September Patch Tuesday from Microsoft we see four updates, with one update (for Microsoft …
Tim Cook’s Apple began its latest chapter with iPhone 6, Apple Watch and Apple Pay. While we wait for Apple’s iPad launch event in a few weeks, here’s what you need to know about Apple Pay. How it works: You will be able to pay for stuff in any physical …
I have a fondness for old-time radio podcasts. I love that the iPod created a whole slew of opportunities for those of us who want to listen to such things. One of my discoveries was The Avengers radio show. I’m not talking Marvel here; this was a ’60s vintage British …
With no fanfare — and admittedly it had more important things to trumpet Tuesday — Apple yesterday published monthly prices for its expanded iCloud storage plans. Apple first announced changes to iCloud extra storage pricing in June at its Worldwide Developers Conference, but it did not flesh out all the …
The Federal Communications Commission chairman seems to be saying that network neutrality isn’t going to happen. In a series of statements, Tom Wheeler appeared to be tough on the industry, but something doesn’t quite add up. Despite Internet Slowdown Day, American consumers are never going to get the open broadband …
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It’s the turn of the century, and this pilot fish is providing support for a big hardware manufacturer’s motherboards. “I got a call from a computer builder who was unable to get his new motherboards to boot reliably,” says fish. “I had to spend a minute or two reading the …
Apple certainly had a lot to announce and preview during its almost-two-hour media event for the launch of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which included not only new phones but the company’s new mobile payments system known as Apple Pay and the first preview of the Apple …
Apple’s iPhone 6 announcement drew some disappointment in mainland China, when consumers learned that the country wouldn’t be among the first markets to receive the product. “They assemble the product in China, but don’t release it here first?” posted one Chinese Internet user on a local news portal. Other online …
Forget laptop stickers: Intel’s pasted a second screen on a prototype laptop it showed at its annual developer conference. The laptop had a regular screen on one side of the display panel and a gray scale e-ink screen on the other. When it was shut, the e-ink screen could serve …
Snapchat cofounders Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy have reached a settlement with former Stanford University colleague Frank Reginald "Reggie" Brown over an ownership dispute, admitting that Brown had originally come up with the idea for the app for sending disappearing picture messages. read more
Back-end technology that AT&T implemented partly for VoLTE (voice over LTE) will help make the Apple Watch and other connected devices useful. read more
Back-end technology that AT&T implemented partly for VoLTE (voice over LTE) will help make the Apple Watch and other connected devices useful. The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) platform that is helping AT&T carry packet-based voice calls will play a crucial role in the growing IoT (Internet of Things), especially wearables …
One of the most serious software flaws to affect the Internet, nicknamed "Heartbleed," was likely unknown before it was publicly disclosed, according to new research. read more
One of the most serious software flaws to affect the Internet, nicknamed “Heartbleed,” was likely unknown before it was publicly disclosed, according to new research. The finding puts to rest fears that government spying agencies may have been exploiting the flaw for surveillance activities. Widespread attacks using Heartbleed only began …
Data analysis software vendor Tableau is developing a new iPad app that might solve one of the problems the company faces with expanding its reach. read more
Intel is developing a family of sensor chips that the company hopes will ultimately be used in robots, wearables, drones and other electronics. read more
Apple's latest "one more thing" was a doozy: A high-tech watch that CEO Tim Cook hopes will "redefine what people expect" from a wearable device. The watch does much more than tell the time — but what exactly does it do? And what can't it? read more
Apple’s latest “one more thing” was a doozy: A high-tech watch that CEO Tim Cook hopes will “redefine what people expect” from a wearable device. The watch does much more than tell the time — but what exactly does it do? And what can’t it? The $350 Apple Watch is …
Satya Nadella could be gearing for his first big acquisition as Microsoft CEO: the company is close to buying the maker of the game Minecraft for more than $2 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. read more