Purism’s Librem Linux laptop Purism is seeking crowd-sourced funding for its 15-inch Linux laptop. The Librem laptop is designed to run on truly free software only, there will be no closed-source software included with it (even for drivers). Chris Hoffman at PC World reports on Purism’s free software only laptop: …
An Android Trojan program that’s behind one of the longest running multipurpose mobile botnets has been updated to become stealthier and more resilient. The botnet is mainly used for instant message spam and rogue ticket purchases, but it could be used to launch targeted attacks against corporate networks because the …
Apple and Google are locked in a never-ending game of catch-up. Each time a new version of iOS or Android is announced, there are just as many borrowed features as new ones, as each side studies and pilfers the other’s ideas to find ways to better its own experience. Android …
German startup Priori Data is set to launch an app analytics platform designed to help developers, and anyone else who’s interested, find out what’s really hot and what’s not on Apple’s App Store and Google Play. The problem with the two big app stores is the lack of public information …
BitTorrent dismissed claims that its popular peer-to-peer file synchronization program BitTorrent Sync has an insecure cryptographic implementation that potentially gives the company access to users’ files. A group of security researchers who recently reverse engineered parts of BitTorrent Sync released a report Monday outlining several potential security issues they found. …
Vietnam, India and Indonesia might not have the most advanced Internet infrastructure, but they do have a large number of insecure smartphones coming online, making them the big botnet sources for next year’s distributed denial of service attacks, according to a report released today by Black Lotus Communications, a DDOS …
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch on Tuesday, addressing a vulnerability in Kerberos KBC, a component that handles authentication on local networks. The patch was supposed to have been released earlier this month, but Microsoft withheld it due to QA concerns. However, Redmond says the flaw is being used in attacks …
Jolla, the Finnish company that created the open source mobile operating system Sailfish OS, today started a crowd-funding campaign at Indiego for their first Linux-powered tablet, simply called Jolla Tablet. At the time of writing this article, the campaign already crossed the desired $380,00 goal and hit the half million mark …
Fidelity Investments today announced a cutting edge way for customers to check on the health of their investments – by donning 3D goggles and peering around a personalized city where the size of each building relates to the health of their various stock holdings, giving them a quick way to …
Finnish smartphone startup Jolla is hoping to break into the tablet market with its Sailfish OS running on a device with a high-resolution 7.85-inch screen. No one seems to have to told the Finns how tough the tablet market is, though: Jolla’s launch comes a day after its neighbor Nokia …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt new rules designed to strengthen the technology infrastructure of the U.S. securities markets. The rules – together comprising Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (Regulation SCI) – impose requirements on certain key market participants intended to reduce the occurrence of systems issues …
What does the future CIO look like? He or she probably won’t have a technology background. However, this new kind of CIO will not only have to lead a technical staff but will also be a leader of leaders in the boardroom. (cio.com) To read this article in full or …
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Office 365 Video, a YouTube-like streaming service where enterprises and large organizations can post in-house video content for communication and training. The Redmond, Wash. firm had first teased Office 365 Video in May at TechEd. “Office 365 Video provides organizations with a secure, company-wide destination for …
Whether you are a fan of Anonymous or not, not too many folks will be upset over the hacktivist collective’s latest hated target – the KKK. Like when hackers of all color hats took on the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church, hackers under the banner of Anonymous have banded together in …
Martyn Williams/IDG News Service An iPhone 6 being used to make an NFC payment via Apple Pay To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Persona is one of the latest fashion magazines in Tokyo. It’s printed on heavy stock paper and is full of photos of models and clothing. The only thing missing is text. You “read” Persona with a smartphone camera. An app recognizes the images, queries a cloud database and then downloads …
Социальная сеть “ВКонтакте” решила покорить Китай. Первый офис компании откроется в Пекине. Как пишет газета China Daily, о перспективе выхода на китайский рынок сообщил находившийся там с визитом коммерческий директор “ВКонтакте” Павел Сафрошкин. Как и Facebook, “ВКонтакте” будет привлекать на свою площадку не отдельных пользователей, а местных рекламодателей. “Жители России проводят в интернете …
Speaking this past weekend at the Every Second Counts Forum in London, Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, shared his strong belief that today’s legislators should know how to code. He was quoted in The Guardian as saying, “We need more people in parliament who can …
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. has set 2023 as the target date for producing the next great leap in supercomputing, if its plans aren’t thwarted by two presidential and four Congressional elections between now and then. It may seem odd to note the role of politics in a story about …
Finnish smartphone startup Jolla is hoping to break into the tablet market with its Sailfish OS running on a device with a high-resolution 7.85-inch screen. No one seems to have to told the Finns how tough the tablet market is, though: Jolla’s launch comes a day after its neighbor Nokia …
In the previous post, we examined the motivations and constraints that make an insider ‘malicious,’ and we saw that external and mental pressure, an opportunity to steal confidential information and rationalization of the potential theft are the factors that contribute for an insider to turn against his employer. While these …
Social network service Twitter has improved its search engine, allowing users to search through Twitter’s entire index of tweets. This represents a vast improvement over the old engine, limited to searching through content less than a week old. Many Twitter users are thrilled — the new search allows revisiting those …
7 killer open source monitoring tools Network and system monitoring is a broad category. There are solutions that monitor for the proper operation of servers, network gear, and applications, and there are solutions that track the performance of those systems and devices, providing trends and analysis. To read this article …
HomeKit seems set to be the star of giant trade show, CES 2015, maintaining Apple’s track record of dominating the show. iOS and the ideal home Apple’s HomeKit will enable iOS users to control a variety of smart things from multiple makers, such as door entry and alarm systems, thermostats …
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that drones are aircraft for the purpose of the Federal Aviation Administration’s prohibition of their careless or reckless use, but skirted other issues on the regulation of drones. Pointing to the definition in U.S. regulations that an aircraft is any device that …
Южнокорейский гигант Samsung в следующем месяце готовится анонсировать свой первый изогнутый 34-дюймовый монитор на базе матрицы типа AH-IPS со светодиодной подсветкой WLED. Родоначальником данной ниши можно считать компанию LG, которая предложила подобную 34-дюймовую панель чуть ранее в этом году. Новинка Samsung получила маркетинговое название Samsung S34E790C, и впервые перед публикой засветилась несколько месяцев …