Amazon, eBay and Etsy have joined big retailers in removing Confederate flags and related items from their sites, in moves responding to increased vitriol over the symbol after a shooting last week at an African-American church in South Carolina. EBay, in an announcement on Tuesday, said it would prohibit the …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a microcap promoter with illegally selling more than 83 million penny stock shares that he secretly obtained through at least 10 different offshore front companies. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Gregg …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a trader in China who profited by more than $1 million after trading in a U.S. brokerage account in advance of last week’s public announcement that China-based Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. had received …
The U.S. Department of State is back in the business of issuing visas after a computer system failure abruptly stopped work at consulates worldwide and inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of travelers. The failure of an unidentified piece of hardware involved in biometric processing brought the entire Consular Consolidated Database system …
Major U.S. banks have been rolling out new, secure smart chip debit and credit cards for months, but the real end-user impact hasn’t yet been felt. Some experts say typical consumers will get confused and may even balk when first attempting to use these new “PIN and chip” smart cards, …
Apple today released the second developer preview of OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, matching the cadence of last year’s Yosemite to the day. Previews of the Mac’s next operating system are currently restricted to registered developers, although Apple has pledged to offer a beta to the general public next …
SAN DIEGO — The corporate accounting department is the last place that I expected to see cloud computing. Thoughts of “fiduciary responsibility,” “Sarbanes-Oxley,” “HIPAA” and “PCI compliance” float through my mind as Insight Software talked up its new cloud-based offerings at its HubbleUp 2015 user conference, held here in mid …
Google is launching a free music service in a move that pits it against Apple, Pandora and Spotify. The company today unveiled a free, ad-supported version of its service, Google Play Music. U.S.-based customers will be able to stream music based on genres, their mood, decades and even activities like …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two firms that illegally brokered more than $79 million of investments by foreigners seeking U.S. residency. The charges are the first against brokers handling investments in the government’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and follow earlier SEC actions against fraudulent EB-5 offerings. Ireeco LLC, …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is concerned that data stolen from companies in cyberattacks is being used to conduct what effectively is insider trading, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The securities regulator asked at least eight publicly traded companies for information on data breaches, the report said quoting “people familiar …
Alongside the news that the Microsoft teams that make devices like Surface and Surface Hub will now be in the same division that makes the operating system on which they run, Microsoft’s latest reorg moves Dynamics to the Cloud & Enterprise group (Microsoft Dynamics is the company’s line of ERP …
Google yesterday added an “undo send” option to Gmail from a browser, letting users retract messages they wish they’d never sent. The feature must be enabled by the user from Gmail’s Settings screen, where the grace period can be set up to the maximum of 30 seconds. Undo send was …
The U.S. Department of Justice’s conviction of Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht may have been compromised by two corrupt investigators. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Carl Force will plead guilty to extorting more than $450,000 from the Silk Road online underground marketplace during his investigation of the site. Force, who …
In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives (SSDs) will not surpass hard disk drives (HDDs) in either price or capacity any time soon, according to industry analysts. In fact, hard drives will remain the dominant mass storage device in laptops and desktops for years to come. For …
Phishing scammers have infiltrated the enterprise and they’re finding easy prey, but it’s not in the C-suite as previously thought. Attackers are exploiting the multitasking, often overloaded middle management ranks, according to research by security and compliance firm Proofpoint. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please …
Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world. Many roboticists competing in the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge earlier this month said they are backing away from autonomy in order to make their robots work faster and more efficiently. For …
Китайский центр сертификации телекоммуникационного оборудования опубликовал данные о новом устройстве корпорации Samsung, где говорится о том, что смартфон Galaxy A8 в ближайшем будущем будет представлен официально. Galaxy A8 оборудован 5.7-дюймовым AMOLED-дисплей с разрешением 1920 × 1080 пикселей, процессором с восемью вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 с тактовой частотой 1.5 ГГц и графическим чипом Adreno 405; объем оперативной памяти составляет 2 Гигабайта, …
Download the Computerworld Digital Magazine! After clicking the link above, find the download button that’s specific to the browser you’re using, click it, then check the folder you have designated for downloads. Please note that this extra-large issue might take slightly longer than usual to download. In the July 2015 …
Trouble Ticket At Issue: The company has to pass a rigorous audit involving more than 400 controls if it’s going to get the PCI stamp of approval. Action Plan: Define the scope, gather evidence, review policies and make sure that the proper policies are in place. For the past few …
Apple’s quick decision to pay artists royalties during the three-month trial of its new streaming service could set it back more than a half billion dollars, or less than a hundred million, a rounding error on the Cupertino, Calif. company’s books, analysts said today. After singer-songwriter Taylor Swift blasted Apple …
When news first broke that Lenovo was buying Motorola, plenty of people worried the company might push its heavy-handed approach to Android onto Motorola’s devices. Well, surprise, surprise: Here we are, more than a year later — and it appears the exact opposite is happening. Motorola execs have repeated emphatically …
As few as 15 years ago, if you mentioned security to someone in the business world, they would immediately think about alarm systems, badge readers and door locks. Some years back, I visited the Equifax Atlanta data center, entry to which required a retina scan and practically an act of …
The U.S. Navy is paying Microsoft millions of dollars to keep up to 100,000 computers afloat because it has yet to transition away from Windows XP. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, which runs the Navy’s communications and information networks, signed a $9.1 million contract earlier this month for …
BlackBerry’s revenues from licensing software and technology to enterprises have become a bright spot in the company’s continuing financial recovery. The company reported software and technology licensing revenues of $137 million for BlackBerry’s first quarter, a 150% increase over the same quarter a year ago. Overall revenues, however, were $658 …
Индийская компания Micromax анонсировала доступный планшетный компьютер под названием Canvas Tabby. Он получил два режима работы: простой и для детей. Устройство будет распространяться исключительно через Flipkart в течение трех недель, начиная с 22 июня. Это первый планшет Micromax, спроектированный специально для детей. Он может функционировать в обычном режиме, но, само собой, гораздо интересней то, что он предлагает для …
Modern-day criminals are still following Willie Sutton’s example of going after banks “because there’s where the money is.” To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …