U.S. lawmakers are skeptical of an FBI request for Congress to mandate encryption workarounds in smartphones, with critics saying Wednesday that back doors would create new vulnerabilities that bad guys can exploit. It’s currently impossible for smartphone makers to build in back doors that allow law enforcement agencies access to …
Secret, an app for anonymous posts that initially attracted buzz but drew criticism after a redesign, is shutting down. The company, also named Secret, formally launched its app last year and is said to have raised between US$33 million and $35 million in funding. “After a lot of thought and …
A longtime concern about Windows Phone has been a shortage of apps in the Windows Store, but Microsoft on Wednesday took a big step to change things. Developers of iOS and Android apps will be able to bring their apps and games to Windows 10, Microsoft’s next operating system that’s …
Airbnb has developed a new app customized for iOS and Android tablets in an attempt to give those users a better way to browse its million-plus home rental listings than with the devices’ web browsers. The free app, to be released Wednesday, lets users navigate its content as if they …
The dozens of deaths that marred the recent Nigerian elections would be considered shocking by the standards of most developed nations. Compared to past elections, however, the violence this time around was limited, and many observers say social media and technology such as biometric card readers played a big role …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules to require companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the financial performance of a company. The proposed rules, which would implement a requirement mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, would provide greater transparency and allow shareholders to be better …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules governing the application of certain requirements to security-based swap transactions connected with a non-U.S. person’s dealing activity in the United States. The rules require a non-U.S. company that uses U.S. personnel to arrange, negotiate, or execute a transaction in connection …
Salesforce is working with financial advisors to field bids after being approached by an unnamed party about a possible buyout, according to a Bloomberg report. The cloud-based CRM (customer relationship managment) company has a market value of more than $40 billion. It could be the largest software acquisition ever, according …
PC prices have enjoyed record lows for many years now, but buyers might have to shell out a few more bucks for their desired laptop or desktop later this year. Research firm Gartner is sounding the alarm that PC prices might go up later this year due to recent currency …
Dozens of American Airlines flights were delayed on Tuesday after “a faulty iPad navigation app” caused the tablets to crash. Despite Boeing 737 pilots’ claims of all 737’s being grounded and a system-wide outage, American Airlines spokesperson Casey Norton said, “Initial reports on social media of a system-wide problem affecting a …
The confluence of mobile, social and big data trends are driving a tectonic transformation — and businesses that do not change with these trends will be left behind, analysts from research firm IDC said at Interop. IDC says the so-called third platform, which includes those mega-trends of cloud and mobile …
Real-time messaging has become a hot area in enterprise software thanks in part to the hype surrounding Slack, and Jive Software has now joined the fray. Announced in February, Jive Chime has now graduated from beta and is available for use on desktops and mobile devices. Jive Chime aims to …
Microsoft today named its new browser Microsoft Edge (ME) after using the “Project Spartan” code name for the last several three months. Edge will be the successor to Internet Explorer (IE), particularly IE11, and will be the default browser in Windows 10 on all devices, from PCs to smartphones. IE11, …
IBM scientists say they have made two critical advances in an industrywide effort to build a practical quantum computer, shaving years off the time expected to have a working system. “This is critical,” said Jay Gambetta, IBM’s manager of theory of quantum computing. “The field has got a lot more …
While marketers want to engage customers in a unified way, disconnected systems often make that difficult. Adobe and Microsoft aim to tackle that problem by integrating Adobe’s Marketing Cloud with Dynamics CRM. The goal of the integration, announced Wednesday at Adobe Summit in London, is to let companies execute marketing …
Microsoft is holding a conference this week called Build 2015, which is intended to educate and inform developers. During an early keynote, the tech giant revealed the name of their new browser. It’s going to be called Microsoft Edge. For anyone who loved the logo for IE (all five of …
Some American Airlines passengers faced lengthy flight delays on Tuesday after a faulty iPad navigation app used by the carriers’ pilots and co-pilots caused the tablets to crash. “Some flights are experiencing an issue with a software application on iPads,” American Airlines said on Twitter to a passenger whose flight …
Microsoft releases .NET tool for Linux Microsoft and Linux have always had an…er…uneasy relationship. But now the company has released a Visual Studio Code tool for Linux that should make it easy to develop .NET code. You can download Visual Studio Code for Linux right now. Owen Williams reports for …
Microsoft’s new Windows development and updating scheme will force enterprises to rethink how they evaluate the company’s operating systems. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
The Apple Watch is slowly but surely making its way into the world, but less than a week after the first devices landed on the front steps of lucky pre-orderers, there’s already a problem—sort of. The watch reportedly has trouble sensing it’s on your skin if you have a heavily …
Most of us have had the experience of being unable to connect to a Wi-Fi network in a location with lots of people. A technology that promises to alleviate that problem is, however, slowly but surely making headway. Upcoming 802.11ac wireless access points will able to handle more users and …
Breaking out of its Windows ecosystem, Microsoft has introduced a version of the Visual Studio development tool that can run on Linux and Apple Mac machines. While Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) was built to help developers create Windows applications, the new Visual Studio Code is free and designed …
Some American Airlines passengers faced lengthy flight delays on Tuesday after a fault in the iPad navigation app used by the carriers’ pilots and co-pilots caused the tablets to crash. “Some flights are experiencing an issue with a software application on iPads,” American Airlines said on Twitter to a passenger …
Intel will launch its new generation of processors, codenamed Skylake, in the third quarter of this year. Up to now the company has kept the speeds and feeds and other specs close to the vest, but two leaks have given a hint of what’s to come. If true, these rumors …
Although Apple announced record revenue from its Greater China sales region this week, the company’s strategy has enough legs to push the market into the No. 1 spot on its books, analysts said today. “It may take a couple of years, but China can become Apple’s biggest,” said Jan Dawson, …
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