Microsoft on Monday promised that Office 365 ProPlus subscribers would have access to OneDrive for Business, the company’s enterprise-grade cloud storage service, by the end of January 2015. Initially, OneDrive for Business will come with a 1TB-per-user maximum. But as Microsoft rolls out unlimited storage to other Office 365 plans’ …
Is Google Glass dead? That’s the question bouncing around online after a report from Reuters that out of 16 Glass app developers contacted, nine had stopped work on their projects or abandoned them completely. It didn’t help that Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is known for wearing Google Glass to …
Bringing some enterprise rigor to the wild world of big data, Hewlett-Packard has issued a package that will allow organizations to harness HP’s Vertica analytical database engine to investigate reams of unstructured data residing in Hadoop systems. “We’re marrying the best of both worlds,” said Jeff Healey, director of product …
It turns out that TRUSTe, the provider of privacy certifications for online businesses, may not be so trustworthy after all. The company failed to conduct annual recertification checks for hundreds of companies holding its privacy seal, despite promising to do so, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged. The FTC …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned two former employees in the Dubai office of a U.S.-based defense contractor for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by taking government officials in Saudi Arabia on a “world tour” to help secure business for the company. The two employees later falsified …
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The emergence of Apple Pay has led some technology early adopters to predict that mobile payments will dominate U.S. consumer spending in the next decade. Yet the idea that most Americans will use a mobile wallet in 2025 is still a pipe dream, according to some expert analysis. Forrester Research …
Apple today released the first update to OS X Yosemite that included fixes for unspecified Wi-Fi problems and improved reliability for connecting to Microsoft Exchange corporate email servers. But Mac owners who had said that Yosemite crippled their Wi-Fi connections reported that the update did not solve their problems. The …
Cisco will package and deliver enterprise collaboration capabilities via a mobile and Web app built to replicate the ease of use of consumer software but designed for ad hoc, workplace team interaction. The app, called Project Squared, joins a growing number of “consumerized” enterprise mobile and Web apps built by …
A reported mobile phone surveillance program at the U.S. Department of Justice raises serious privacy questions, a U.S. senator said Monday. The DOJ program, which reportedly uses cell-tower mimicking equipment on airplanes to target the mobile phone locations of criminals, raises questions about how many “innocent” people’s mobile phone data …
If your iPhone 4s or iPad 2 have been slowing down since upgrading to iOS 8, today’s 8.1.1 update is designed to improve performance on those devices. The release isn’t as major as the feature-packed 8.1, which delivered Apple Pay to iOS devices, but it will fix a few bugs. …
A proposed $0.16 fee increase on your telephone bill would go toward improving Internet access for kids in school and libraries. About two-thirds of U.S. schools don’t have the broadband speeds they need to provide digital learning services, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Monday. Wheeler’s proposal to revamp …
At Amazon Web Services’ third annual re:Invent cloud computing conference the market’s leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public provider revealed a variety of new cloud service features. Here’s a recap of AWS’s announcements from re:Invent 2014. Amazon Aurora Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). AWS …
Apple today announced it had struck a deal with UnionPay, China’s most popular credit and debit card system, to accept payments for digital goods on its App Store. “The ability to buy apps and make purchases using UnionPay cards has been one of the most requested features from our customers …
A proposed 16-cent fee increase on your telephone bill would go toward improving Internet access for kids in school and libraries. About two-thirds of U.S. schools don’t have the broadband speeds they need to provide digital learning services, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Monday. Wheeler’s proposal to revamp …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three penny stock promoters with conducting pump-and-dump schemes involving stocks they were touting in their supposedly independent newsletters. The SEC alleges that Anthony Thompson, Jay Fung, and Eric Van Nguyen worked in coordinated fashion to gain control of a large portion of shares …
Facebook may be expanding from a social website where users share photos of their favorite sandwiches and pets, to a network focused on business users. The company, which runs the world’s largest social network, is preparing to launch a network for the enterprise, according to a report in the Financial …
A systemd maintainer for Debian resigns The systemd inferno continues to rage across the Linux landscape. This time the flames have scorched a long-time Debian developer who had also been a systemd maintainer. After prolonged online attacks, he has decided to throw in the towel and quit maintaining systemd. However, …
The Department of Energy has awarded a $325 million contract to IBM to create two supercomputers that will be at least three times more powerful than any existing systems in deployment today. IBM’s partners in this endeavor will be Nvidia and Mellanox. The current leader is Tianhe-2 (Milky Way 2), …
Customers of ShoreTel phones and unified communications gear can stop worrying that their lives might get complicated by a merger between the company and its rival Mitel. Mitel has taken a $575 million offer for ShoreTel off the table stating the refusal of ShoreTel’s board to talk about the offer. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a San Francisco-based penny stock company CEO with defrauding investors by issuing false and misleading press releases portraying his purported marketing and infomercial company as a successful venture in order to drive the stock price up while he covertly sold millions of shares …
Once a seething cauldron of competition, the twice-yearly Top500 listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has grown nearly stagnant of late. In the most recent Top500 compilation, released Monday, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology’s Tianhe-2 has retained its position as the world’s fastest system, for the fourth …
Nvidia’s PC graphics chips may draw all the attention, but supercomputing chips are driving the company’s GPU technology ahead. The company on Monday announced an updated Tesla K80 graphics card, which is its fastest graphics product to date. Tesla is used in some of the world’s fastest supercomputers to solve …
It’s no secret that many IT professionals in large enterprises look down at public clouds — they don’t consider them reliable, secure or safe. But that perception may be shifting, at least when it comes to big data workloads. A new report released this week by Gigaom Research finds that …
The State Department joins the White House, the United States Postal Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on a growing list of hacked government agencies. Expect to hear of more government networks infiltrated as a Georgia Institute of Technology report on emerging cyber threats in 2015 (pdf) states, …
Black Friday is upon us Word is that more retailers will relent to public pressure – I mean do the right thing for their employees – and close on Thanksgiving Day this year. But that won’t prevent them from going all out online, where much is automated and the workers …