The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Martin Murphy, the Associate Regional Director for Examinations in the agency’s Los Angeles office, is retiring today after more than 36 years of public service, including 24 years at the SEC. As Associate Regional Director for the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections …
Intel is shipping its fastest PC processor to date and its first with eight cores. The Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition chip, announced Friday, is aimed at gaming and high-performance desktops. It is based on the Haswell microarchitecture, which is the basis for Intel’s latest Core chips, and priced at $999 …
Researchers are creating a single, massive repository of robot knowledge so machines around the world can learn from each other. Dubbed Robo Brain, the repository, which robots can access over the Internet, is designed to let the machines draw on its more than 10 terabytes of data whenever they need …
Tablet shipments worldwide will continue to grow this year, but not as quickly as previously expected, according to a forecast released Friday. After four years of double- and triple-digit growth, worldwide tablet shipments this year will grow by just 6.5% over last year, according to IDC. The research firm had …
Intel is shipping its fastest PC processor to date and its first with eight cores. read more
Tablet shipments worldwide will continue to grow this year, but not as quickly as previously expected, according to a forecast released Friday. read more
Microsoft has finally begun cleaning out the Windows Store by killing 1,500 scams and copycat apps. But by turning the other way when bad apps were uploaded, and maybe even paying for them, Microsoft was part of the problem. Among the 1,500 killed apps are many scams, such as a …
A file-encrypting ransomware program called CryptoWall infected over 600,000 computer systems in the past six months and held 5 billion files hostage, earning its creators more than $1 million, researchers found. The Counter Threat Unit (CTU) at Dell SecureWorks performed an extensive analysis of CryptoWall that involved gathering data from …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a whistleblower award of more than $300,000 to a company employee who performed audit and compliance functions and reported wrongdoing to the SEC after the company failed to take action when the employee reported it internally. It’s the first award for a whistleblower …
Google yesterday advanced its 64-bit Chrome browser to beta status, and told owners of the very earliest Intel-based Macs that they would soon be left behind. The promotion of the 64-bit Chrome for OS X to the “Beta” channel followed a move earlier this month by Google to push the …
Samsung has partnered with Nokia to bring navigation service Here to its new smartwatch and Galaxy Android phones. read more
New smartphones expected to bow at the IFA show in Berlin next week will likely show that makers are taking a step back from larger screen sizes and emphasizing better design. read more
A file-encrypting ransomware program called CryptoWall infected over 600,000 computer systems in the past six months and held 5 billion files hostage, earning its creators more than US$1 million, researchers found. read more
Fujitsu is set to manufacture 8,500 contactless bank machines for Spain's CaixaBank, a move that may help move the technology to the mainstream. read more
Mozilla has added small advertisements to the new tab page of Firefox’s roughest-edged build, the channel dubbed “Nightly” because it is updated each evening. The ads, which Mozilla’s calls “sponsored tiles,” were first discussed by Mozilla in February, but the initiative was criticized by Firefox users. The company, however, defended …
It’s been nearly four years since Microsoft first released Windows Phone, and what it has gotten after many millions of dollars in development and marketing costs, plus its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia, is this: a worldwide smartphone market share of less than 3%. And that number has been going …
Consumers want their vehicles to anticipate their personal technology demands and to provide the same functionality as their mobile devices, according to a survey. Because of the technology gap in vehicles, consumers are more likely to use their smartphones to access apps and information while driving, most commonly apps for …
The digital generation is heading off to school again — and as we do every year, we’ve picked out some gadgets and apps that’ll help with studying, relaxing and just plain being a student. We’ve made our selections with a budget in mind: Our priciest item lists for $130, while …
The White House’s so-called chief technology officer is leaving. Todd Y. Park is going back to California, to spend more time with his family — The President has plans for him there, too (he’s not going to Chicago). But who will fill his shoes? We bring news of three possible …
Flashback to the 1980s, when this Australian organization finally eases into computerization — and is trying to do it right, according to a pilot fish on the scene. “We used Ericsson bright amber terminal screens that met Scandinavian occupational health standards,” says fish. “There would be no X-ray emissions, nor …
Adobe Flash is a relic, but somehow pockets of the sketchy multimedia software remain, so you may sometimes need to play some item in the format. Fortunately, you can: Thing of the past Apple’s decision to abandon Flash made complete sense. The unwieldy format demanded way too much in System …
Baidu and Tencent are teaming up with a Chinese shopping mall operator in a joint venture that could steal business away from local e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. read more
LG is waiting for the right time to exit the plasma TV business, a move that would leave almost no major companies making the flat-screens. read more
Toshiba has developed a new image sensor for smartphones and tablets that promises better image resolution for run-of-the-mill smartphones when it goes into mass production. read more
For two years, Google has quietly been developing autonomous flying vehicles that can be used to deliver packages for disaster relief or for commerce purposes, the company revealed Thursday. read more
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a “global compact” on surveillance and the use of collected data, saying the U.S. isn’t the only country that does it and American technology companies are unfairly targeted for the government’s actions. “The U.S. government doesn’t use information for commercial purposes,” …