There are two ways to think about #GamerGate. The short version is that it’s a loosely-organized mob of so-called “gamers” rallied around a Twitter hashtag focused on the harassment of women — primarily, but not only, female game developers — under the pretense of pushing for higher standards in video …
The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a consortium of 58 major U.S. retailers whose mobile payment network will take on the new Apple Pay early in 2015, today held a hastily-organized news conference to address questions about a hack that pilfered consumer email addresses. MCX CEO Dekkers Davison argued that the …
Microsoft has handed out pink slips in a third round of job cuts that “almost” concludes its plan to eliminate 18,000 positions. The company announced in July that it would let go about 14 percent of its workforce, the largest set of job cuts in its history, but instead of …
As the U.S. has discovered, it only takes a few cases of Ebola to turn things upside down. Months into the outbreak in West Africa, federal and state officials are still fighting over quarantine policies and travel bans, and reacting in disruptive fashion to the threat. Elementary schools were closed …
Apple’s new iPhones are poised to have a very strong holiday sales season in the U.S., said Kantar’s Carolina Milanesi today. “If all I have is the 12 days of sales [in September], what the iPhone 6 was able to do was quite remarkable,” said Milanesi, chief of research and …
As small businesses make their Wi-Fi more enterprise-like, Ruckus Wireless wants to meet them where they live with that hallmark of consumer tech, the mobile app. On Wednesday, Ruckus reached beyond its familiar service provider and large-business territory with Xclaim, a whole new brand aimed squarely at small businesses, those …
Cybercriminals have a new tool to make the most of stolen credit card details before payment processors detect the fraud, security researchers warn. A Web-based application called the Voxis Platform is being advertised on underground forums as a tool for cashing out money from stolen credit cards by automating fraudulent …
Hoping to enlarge its pool of corporate customers to include the enterprise market, startup BitYota will soon offer its data warehouse service on the Microsoft Azure cloud, thanks to a partnership between the two companies. “Microsoft is truly partnering with us, not just providing a compute infrastructure,” said Graham Summers, …
HP today announced a new 3D printing technology called Multi Jet Fusion that it said will enable mass production of parts with a technology traditionally reserved for rapid prototyping. The new industrial 3D printer, about the size of a washing machine, is 10 times faster and 50% less expensive than …
In my first impressions of Google’s Nexus 9 tablet, I neglected to mention one aspect of the Android 5.0 software that really jumps out at you at first glance: a brand new Gmail app that follows the Lollipop design aesthetic. Yup — even with all the focus on its new …
The Cleveland Clinic is beginning a pilot program with a cloud service based on IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to aid its research into new cancer treatments. IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty, speaking Wednesday at the 2014 Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit, said researchers at the clinic will use …
Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based start-up that wants to provide daily images of every spot on earth, lost 26 micro satellites when an Orbital Sciences rocket exploded shortly after lift-off Tuesday. The Antares rocket burst into flames seconds after rising into the sky from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, …
Since 2011 a group of attackers has been targeting companies that operate industrial control systems with a backdoor program called BlackEnergy. “Multiple companies working with ICS-CERT have identified the malware on Internet-connected human-machine interfaces (HMIs),” the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), a division of the U.S. Department …
Europe’s top court is set to answer a question that seems to be as old as the Internet: Are IP addresses personal data? Germany’s Federal Court of Justice was scheduled to rule on this Tuesday, but instead decided to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice of the …
Apple’s ex-sapphire supplier caved to its former partner because “protracted litigation against one of the largest corporations in the world with over $100 billion of cash would be challenging and expensive,” court documents revealed. In papers filed late Monday with a federal bankruptcy court, GT Advanced Technologies, of Merrimack, N.H., …
IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter’s massive flows of social media data with Big Blue’s analytics software, including Watson. The partnership will involve three major components, according to Wednesday’s announcement. First, IBM will use Twitter data streams for cloud services such as Watson Analytics, Watson …
Google is developing tiny magnetic particles that could help detect cancer and other health problems by coursing through a patient’s bloodstream. Andrew Conrad, head of the Google X research lab’s Life Sciences Team, told the WSJ.D Live conference Tuesday that the particles can be directed toward different parts of the …
IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter’s massive flows of social media data with Big Blue’s analytics software, including Watson. The partnership will involve three major components, according to Wednesday’s announcement. First, IBM will use Twitter data streams for cloud services such as Watson Analytics, Watson …
Cybercriminals have a new tool to make the most of stolen credit card details before payment processors detect the fraud, security researchers warn. A Web-based application called the Voxis Platform is being advertised on underground forums as a tool for cashing out money from stolen credit cards by automating fraudulent …
Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based start-up that wants to provide daily images of every spot on earth, lost 26 micro satellites when an Orbital Sciences rocket exploded shortly after lift-off Tuesday. The Antares rocket burst into flames seconds after rising into the sky from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, …
Android fans, behold: In my hands sits the long-fabled successor to Google’s Nexus 7 tablet — oh yes, the one and only Nexus 9. The Nexus 9 is noteworthy for a few reasons. First, it’s a Google Nexus device, which means it’s designed with close input from Google’s own Android …
In a media environment consumed with mass hysteria over Ebola, ISIS and the mid-term elections, EMC, Cisco and VCE’s joint decision that VCE will become an independent company within EMC’s Federation didn’t generate as much buzz as it should have. That’s really too bad, since the agreement is a big …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against an investment advisory firm and three top officials for violating the “custody rule” that requires firms to follow certain procedures when they control or have access to client money or securities. Advisory firms with custody of private fund assets can comply …
There’s been a big stinky splash about Verizon using a privacy-decimating “perma cookie” so advertisers can track Verizon customers across the web. It works by Verizon injecting a Unique Identifier Header (UIDH) at the end of HTTP connections. As Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford, explained, “In …
Ассортимент Huawei пополнился еще одним смартфоном с поддержкой LTE. Смартфон Huawei Honor 4X обладает 5,5-дюймовым HD-экраном с разрешением 1280×720 точек. Новинка работает на базе операционной системы Android 4.4 с программной оболочкой Emotion UI 3.0, а также снабжено относительно мощным несъёмным аккумулятором. Устройство оборудовано 13-мегапиксельной основной и 5-мегапиксельной фронтальной камерами. Возможные варианты цветового исполнения: бежевый, голубой …
Not your average iOS update Don’t be fooled: iOS 8.1 is no mere “dot” release. This rapid update from Apple is chock-full of great new features, several of which could change how you work, shop, and share. iOS 8.1 is available for the iPhone 4S and later, iPad 2 and later, …