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  • 19 June 2013

  • News: NSA spying could mean U.S. tech companies lose international business

    It is not just personal information that is being swept into the National Security Agency's (NSA) massive databases. It is corporate data as well. And that could cause some serious international blowback for the U.S., both politically and economically.

  • News: Google Glass apps for enterprises coming by early 2014

    A company that specializes in Google apps is developing a series of enterprise applications for Google Glass that should be available late this year or early 2014.

  • News: Financial servies firm figures out how to do social safely

    The freewheeling flow of information on public social media sites may cause many people in conservative, highly regulated industries such as financial services to shudder. But one Canadian firm has taken the plunge, believing its employees can use social tools in a safe and ultimately profitable way.

  • News: Papers please! Microsoft creates second-class citizens with Office iPhone app

    Microsoft erred when it decided that the new Office Mobile for iPhone would be available to Office 365 customers but not to those who purchased a traditional "perpetual" license to Office 2013, an analyst argued

  • News: LG: Production of flexible display smartphone screens to start in Q4

    LG will begin mass producing flexible display screens for smartphones in the fourth quarter of this year, according to the Korea Times.

  • News: iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 18

    As last week's Apple WWDC faded in the rear view mirror, the iOSphere hungered for more. And the hunger gave birth to hope, and hope to more rumors, including the one that predicts iPad 5 will be announced this week to foil and foul Samsung's scheduled London news.

  • News: NSA defends spying as backlash rages

    Mounting backlash against National Security Agency spying practices is now coming from sources as varied as security expert Bruce Schneier, former Reagan-era budget director David Stockman and high-level representatives of European countries.

  • News: There's really no such thing as a 'best' mobile provider

    As with all things tech, there are rabidly loyal fans of each of the four major mobile network providers, and strong opinions on all sides about which is the "best." While Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile each have their pros and cons, it's virtually impossible to declare one the winner.

  • News: Wi-Fi Alliance announces 802.11ac certification program

    The Wi-Fi Alliance is finally kicking off a certification program for routers, adapters, and other wireless networking gear based on the IEEE 802.11ac draft standard. The organization has a strong track record when it comes to ensuring that networking products will be interoperable even when the standards they're based on have yet to be finalized, so this is a positive development.

  • News: Ex-HTC execs launch new UK smartphone brand Kazam

    Just as smartphone manufacturer HTC was beginning to claw back some market share with its refreshed HTC One line, two former company executives have announced the launch of a new mobile brand called Kazam, which they claim will "disrupt the status quo".

  • News: Many companies are negligent about SAP security, researchers say

    SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers.

  • News: FBI director defends phone surveillance program

    A telephone records surveillance program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency raises serious privacy concerns and should be reined in, some U.S. senators said Wednesday.

  • News: Oracle, IBM to unwrap new Unix server processors at conference

    Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August.

  • News: Microsoft launches security bounty programs for Windows 8.1 and IE 11 Preview

    Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later versions and for coming up with new ideas to defend against exploits.

  • News: Federal Government Wrestles With Big Data and Sequestration

    Despite the challenges of the budget sequestration that went into effect on March 1, federal agencies are pressing forward with big data initiatives, hoping to squeeze big savings out of more efficient use of their data.

  • News: Master the command line: navigating files and folders

    If you've been using a Mac for any length of time, you know that it's more than just a pretty point-and-click, window-and-icon interface. Beneath the surface of OS X is an entire world that you can access only from the command line. Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) is the default gateway to that command line on a Mac. With it, instead of pointing and clicking, you type your commands and your Mac does your bidding.

  • News: The panic is over. Facebook is back up

    Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.

  • News: Four ways OS X Mavericks will save your MacBook's battery

    When Apple unveiled the iPad in 2010, I immediately fell in love with its impressive battery life, and couldn't wait until they day when the same longevity would come to my Mac.

  • News: Data wiped from 630 Megaupload servers

    LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned.

  • News: What GE's cloud computing foray means for big data

    As if GE doesn't already have enough on its plate, the company entered the cloud computing marketing this week, announcing plans to provide cloud-based analytics services for its industrial customers.

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