Chinese vendors Tencent and Qihoo have been accused of gaming antimalware tests by releasing optimized versions of their products for testing purposes that wouldn’t be reflected in the real world, several antimalware firms said. Both companies will be stripped of their rankings, AV‐Comparatives, AV-TEST and Virus Bulletin said. The three stripped …
To meet its goal of putting Windows 10 on a billion devices within three years, Microsoft will have to turn every personal computer now running Windows 7 onto the new OS, then find even more to migrate, calculations from recent statistics show. Microsoft staked out the ambitious plan last week …
More than 95 percent of SAP systems deployed in enterprises are exposed to vulnerabilities that could lead to a full compromise of business data, a security firm claims. Onapsis, a Boston-based company that specializes in SAP security audits, also found that the average time-to-patch for SAP vulnerabilities is more than …
A vulnerability within two widely used WordPress plugins is already being exploited by hackers, putting millions of WordPress sites at risk, according to a computer security firm. The plugins are JetPack, a customization and performance tool, and Twenty Fifteen, used for infinite scrolling, wrote David Dede, a malware researcher with …
Emojis: Kids may love their simplicity, but programmers will loathe their complexities. Last month, the Instagram photo-sharing service started recognizing emojis in its hashtag searches, making the company the first major social networking service to offer this capability. A user could affix a sprightly emoji to a photo hashtag so …
Intel is becoming a little more diverse, just several months after announcing an ambitious plan to add more women and minority workers to its ranks. Since January, roughly 17 percent of Intel’s senior hires were historically under-represented minorities—about double the rate last year. Intel also doubled its senior hiring among …
The man behind the idea of the Apple store and the Genius Bar has launched a store where trained employees bring the gadget you bought to your house and help you set it up. Employees at the new company, called Enjoy, will deliver your purchase to you at home, the …
AMD’s recent chips haven’t rocked Intel’s PC market dominance, but new chips based on the company’s Zen architecture could change the narrative next year. The company on Wednesday shared initial details about the new FX and seventh-generation A-series chips, which will be in desktops and laptops next year. The chips …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved a proposal by the national securities exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for a two-year pilot program that would widen the minimum quoting and trading increments–or tick sizes–for stocks of some smaller companies. The SEC plans to use the pilot program …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against four former officers of Wilmington Trust for intentionally understating past due bank loans during the financial crisis. The former Delaware-based bank holding company was acquired by M&T Bank in May 2011 and paid $18.5 million in September 2014 to settle …
Internet of Things projects can yield data and insights that help companies operate more efficiently and improve products, but also give hackers additional targets to attack. Expect more malware like Stuxnet, a worm that went after Siemens industrial control systems and mostly infected computers in Iran, said Alan Tait, CTO …
Just 5% of the nation’s 6,500 emergency dispatch centers are equipped to receive and respond to emergency text-to-911 messages. That’s not good enough for more than 41,000 signers of a Change.org petition. They want Congress to pass legislation requiring emergency centers to update their systems to accommodate texting. Text-to-911 would …
Google now gets more search queries from mobile devices than it does from PCs. The company noted this milestone in mobile computing in a blog post on Tuesday. “Billions of times per day, consumers turn to Google for I want-to-know, I want-to-go, I want-to-do, and I want-to-buy moments,” wrote Jerry …
Oh, the irony. Now that Microsoft has piqued everyone’s interest in holograms with the recent update on the progress of its HoloLens, visions of what this technology can do for business and scientific endeavors are seemingly everywhere. In fact, holograms have been used in business and scientific settings over the …
AMD hasn’t been competitive in the chip market over the last few years thanks to some poor decisions, but the company is simplifying its product lineup for PCs while getting into some newer, hotter product areas in hopes of reaching consistent profitability by the end of this year. On Tuesday, …
Project Fi invites are on their way, and they reveal a lot about how Google’s new wireless service will work. A series of screenshots posted by a Reddit user show the signup process, with a key provision being that you need to use the Google Voice number tied to your …
Daimler Trucks this week unveiled what it said is the world’s first licensed 18-wheel semi-tractor trailer that can drive itself. Daimler unveiled the new 18-wheeler yesterday during a ceremony at the Hoover Dam. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck, a concept truck, underwent extensive testing, Daimler said, before the Nevada Department of …
MarkLogic is a document-oriented, distributed NoSQL database from the company of the same name. In the world of MarkLogic, a document is principally an XML file, though MarkLogic can also handle JSON documents, text files, image files, audio files and more. If you can put it in a file, you …
With the next release of Windows Server, Microsoft will equip its enterprise customers to take advantage of the container revolution. The next preview release of Windows Server 2016, due by the middle of the year, will offer the first glimpse into how its container system will operate. Microsoft is demonstrating …
Legislation intended to end the U.S. National Security Agency’s bulk collection of domestic telephone records is drawing opposition from several unlikely sources, digital and civil rights groups. The USA Freedom Act, approved last Thursday in a 25-2 vote by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, doesn’t go far enough to …
Will bezel-less phones be the next big thing? China’s ZTE certainly thinks so. On Wednesday, the company’s Nubia brand unveiled the Z9, a product that comes without the black border found on so many smartphone screens. I had a chance to try out the device, and found both pros and …
Legislation intended to end the U.S. National Security Agency’s bulk collection of domestic telephone records is drawing opposition from several unlikely sources, digital and civil rights groups. The USA Freedom Act, approved last Thursday in a 25-2 vote by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, doesn’t go far enough to …
With the next release of Windows Server, Microsoft will equip its enterprise customers to take advantage of the container revolution. The next preview release of Windows Server 2016, due by the middle of the year, will offer the first glimpse into how its container system will operate. Microsoft is demonstrating …
The annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference is health IT vendors’ Mecca. The HIMSS event this year attracted nearly 40,000 attendees to Chicago, and its giant exhibition halls in the McCormick Place were filled with more than 1,000 booths. The overall spirit at the event was buoyant …
Targeting the 25 billion or so devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2020, SAP on Wednesday announced a new suite of cloud services designed specifically for the so-called Internet of Things. Unveiled at Sapphire Now, the company’s annual user conference, the SAP Hana Cloud Platform for IoT …
A prediction IT leaders hear often is: Marketing will spend more on technology than IT by 2017, according to Gartner. While this prediction is often-repeated, revisiting its implications is important to IT leaders who want to keep their organizations competitive. In the next five years, change will be coming to …