Facebook’s $19 billion bid for WhatsApp won the approval of the European Union’s competition regulator on Friday. “We have carefully reviewed this proposed acquisition and come to the conclusion that it would not hamper competition,” European Commission Vice President in charge of competition policy, Joaquín Almunia, said. While the commission …
Developers like to think they’re extroverted. Chances are they’re not. A recent IDG study, Introverts vs. Extroverts: Is There an IT Personality?, found that just over half of IT workers are introverts. Only those engineers who mistakenly think they’re extroverted would find that surprising. Now, before you take offense, to …
An expansion of how Facebook's user data is employed for advertising purposes is prompting questions over privacy. read more
Facebook's US$19 billion bid for WhatsApp won the approval of European Union competition regulator on Friday. read more
States’ efforts to improve cybersecurity are being hindered by lack of money and people. States don’t have enough funding to keep up with the increasing sophistication of the threats, and can’t match private sector salaries, says a new study. This just-released report by Deloitte and the National Association of State …
JP Morgan Chase is in furious damage-control mode. It’s emerged that the hack it disclosed in August was FAR bigger than first thought. Not only that, but it seems to have been caused by simple social-engineering of one single employee. Isn’t it a bit suspicious, then, that anonymous sources are …
At this big university hospital, an incompatible piece of switching gear has been intermittently stopping access to an important clinical system, says a sysadmin pilot fish trying to deal with the problem. “It required emergency outages at least a couple times a month for several months,” fish says. “Both I …
Компания FreedomPop сообщила о выпуске нового планшета на базе Android, который получил 7-дюймовый дисплей и привлекательный ценник в $89. Американский оператор Freedompop пока показал версию WiFi-only, но уже в этом году он может выпустить аналогичную Liberty модель, которая получит имя Frenzy, а также поддержку 4G LTE и ценник в $99. Возвращаясь к планшету Liberty, отметим …
Power-sipping wearable devices could become smaller with a new rechargeable battery from Panasonic. read more
IBM is pumping more horsepower into servers based on its Power architecture, which is best known for arming the Watson supercomputer to outperform humans in game show "Jeopardy." read more
Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were compromised in a cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase but no “unusual” fraud has yet been detected. All told, 76 million households and 7 million small businesses were affected, the bank wrote in a 8-K filing Thursday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. …
The network said Thursday that it researches all kinds of things and isn't going to stop, but it plans to be more responsible. read more
Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were compromised in a cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase but no "unusual" fraud has yet been detected. read more
Work Chat, a full-fledged collaboration tool available by the end of 2014, will let users share notes, talk to each other, and work together in real-time across platforms. read more
A new Google project aims to create nothing less than an open standard for the entire "Internet of Things," which the company's Chrome team is calling the Physical Web. read more
A security researcher has found another flaw in the Android browser that a cybercriminal could use to steal sensitive data. read more
"Internet of things" standards groups are rallying the troops for efforts to make thermostats, door locks, sensors and other connected devices find each other and share information. read more
Google dropped its cloud computing prices and other vendors are expected to follow suit, but the lower pricing may not be the key lure for attracting enterprises to the cloud. read more
Researchers say Facebook has a ways to go yet toward injecting more transparency and ethics into its research practices. read more
Worldwide semiconductor revenue will grow at a fast pace this year but will slow down in 2016 when the DRAM market hits its next bust cycle, according to Gartner. read more
Facebook is promising to be more careful about how it conducts research on users, with a deeper review process by top managers when particular groups of people or types of content are studied on the site. However, the company did not say whether it would include outside researchers or regulators …
H-1B whistleblower Jay Palmer filed a civil lawsuit Thursday against Infosys, in another bid for damages over allegations of ill-treatment. It is Palmer’s second attack in federal court, but it takes a new approach by citing the whistleblower protections in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Palmer was an employee of …
As part of Windows 10, Microsoft will consolidate its multiple app stores and for the first time offer an app volume purchase program. Microsoft will be following in the footsteps of its OS rival Apple, which introduced volume purchasing programs for both business and education — the latter an important …
When Ken Griffin, the director of IT operations for Harvard Business Publishing, warned his staff, "12 months from now, those servers are being switched off," his message was crystal clear — there's no going back, learn the cloud or step aside. read more
Samsung is frightened, and you know it. Look at the evidence: China is following the rest of the planet to go iPhone crazy with two million iPhone 6 units pre-ordered within hours. Apple has already shifted ten million of its new smartphone. You can see what’s happening. To read this …
AT&T's NetBond service for secure access to third-party clouds will soon work with the biggest one of all, Amazon Web Services. read more