Cox Exits Mobile Phone Service Market
Cox Communications, which planned its own mobile network in 2008 but later settled for reselling Sprint Nextel service, discontinued selling wireless altogether on Wednesday. The third-largest U.S....
View ArticleFrance Orders Twitter To Identify Racist Tweets
A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over any data that could help police identify users who posted racist and anti-Semitic tweets on its website. The case, decided in the 17th Chamber of the...
View ArticleAmazon Says Cloud-based Data Warehouse Now Available
Amazon Web Services has rolled out to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. Amazon Redshift was first announced as a...
View ArticleFL To Become First State With Anti-Drone Law
A Florida bill that would create restrictions on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by state law enforcement officials is one signature away from becoming the first law of its kind in the...
View ArticleDish Network Partners With Wireless Provider To Develop Broadband
Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp and wireless network provider nTelos Holdings Corp stated they would collectively develop a broadband service within nTelos’s coverage footprint serving parts of...
View ArticleSprint To Offer The LG Optimus F3 For $29.99
Sprint and LG Electronics on Thursday announced that the LG Optimus F3 smartphone will be offered for sale online starting June 14 for $29.99, after rebate, with a two-year agreement. The offer is...
View ArticleAmazon Appears To Have Intel Inside
Intel has scored a marketing coup by getting Amazon to admit that it runs Xeons in its AWS EC2 compute cloud and sticking its logo on its cloud computer screens. Intel has been trying to increasing its...
View ArticleAmazon Seeks FAA Approval To Test Drones
Amazon.com Inc is asking U.S. regulators for permission to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a rapid expansion of a program that has sparked widespread debate over the safety and...
View ArticleEven After Cyber Pact, Chinese Hackers Continue Attacks
Hackers associated with the Chinese government have attempted to penetrate at least seven U.S. companies in the three weeks since Washington and Beijing agreed not to spy on each other for commercial...
View ArticleData Breach Hits HEI Hotels
A data breach at 20 U.S. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have exposed payment card data from tens of thousands of food, drink and...
View ArticleRussian Hacker Convicted Of Selling More Than 2M Credit Card Numbers
Jurors in a U.S. federal court have handed down a guilty verdict for a Russian hacker accused of stealing and selling more than two million credit card numbers. A jury in Seattle found Roman Valerevich...
View ArticleWas Visa Hacked?
I persisted with the automatic call until I finally got through to a real person, who confirmed the reason my card had been stopped was because of a hack of the Visa database.
View ArticleData Breaches Appear To Be On The Rise
However, the number of compromised data records increased 27 per cent from 2015. Financial services companies accounted for 12 per cent of all data breaches, a 23per cent decline compared to last year.
View ArticleOracle Planning ‘Solution Centers’ To Focus On Artificial Intelligence,...
Oracle is looking for new employees for a “new startup organization” inside its North America operation that will focus on key technology trends, including cloud computing, internet of things,...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Tech Giants Ask NSA To Change Spying Tactics
Silicon Valley’s giants are frustrated with the United State’s government National Security Agency. In a letter signed by 31 tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, the firms...
View ArticleIs Oracle Riding Itself Of SPARC
Oracle's plan has been to deliver continuous updates to Solaris 11.3 instead of a full 12.0 upgrade.
View ArticleCA, Other States Exploring ‘Right To Repair’ Smartphone Law
California may join a growing chorus of states seeking to enact “Right to Repair” laws that would let owners of mobile and other electronic devices get their hardware fixed by third parties without...
View ArticleAmazon Flirting With Membership In The Ultra Exclusive Trillion Dollar Club
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday temporarily joined Apple Inc to become the second $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company after its stock price more than doubled in a year as it grew rapidly in retail and...
View ArticleHalf Of States Using Voting Machines With Known Security Flaw
Elections machines used by 26 states and DC remain vulnerable to a cybersecurity flaw that was made known in 2007, according to a new report. The vulnerability in the Model 650 ballot-counting machine...
View ArticleDid An Ex-NSA Employee Go To Jail For Taking Work Home
However, the secret information got into the wrong hands, in the court's eyes the root cause was the same. By taking the work home for five years, Pho was nonchalantly risking national security...
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