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Seems Bonnie & Clyde might have had 'right to be forgotten'
The caretakers of Wikipedia this morning have given us an enlightening look at the type of individuals and organizations who are benefiting – or at least appear to be benefiting – from the misguided "right to be forgotten" campaign being imposed by European censors on Google and other search engines.Among the beneficiaries: an Irish bank robber so notorious he's been portrayed in a series of motion pictures; and an Italian criminal gang that's also straight out of Central Casting.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Public Knowledge readies complaint on mobile traffic throttling
Digital rights group Public Knowledge will file net neutrality complaints against each of the four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. over their practice of throttling some traffic, in some cases on so-called unlimited data plans.Public Knowledge on Wednesday sent letters to AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile USA, telling the carriers it plans to file traffic-throttling complaints at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The letters are the first step toward filing a formal complaint with the FCC.The complaints will focus on practices at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint of throttling mobile data subscribers who pay for unlimited data plans and T-Mobile's practice of exempting network-speed-test app Ookla from throttling after subscribers reach their data cap, thus disguising their throttled speeds.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
IBM's 'click to buy' consulting services look beyond just IT
IBM hopes to expand its customer base and sell to executives outside of IT with a new set of consulting services that can be bought online with a credit card.IBM introduced five offerings as part of its new Global Business Services Online. Just one of this initial group is targeted at non-IT users, but IBM says it will offer more services in future that are aimed at workers in other areas of the business.The first service that looks beyond IT is called Social Media Analytics and Customer Insights, for analyzing what's being said about a company's brands, products and competitors on social media.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Galaxy Note 4 won't turn around Samsung's ailing fortunes, analysts say
Samsung Electronics is expected to launch soon the Galaxy Note 4, in a bid to help improve its ailing fortunes in the high-end segment of the smartphone market. But the company's problems run deeper with local vendors eating its lunch with cheaper devices in countries like China and India.On Wednesday, Samsung posted an invite to the "Unpacked 2014 Episode 2" event, which will take place simultaneously in Berlin, Beijing and New York on Sept. 3. The company usually launches a new version of its Galaxy Note line at the IFA trade show in Berlin, and this year seems to be no different with the invite telling people to "note the date."The launch comes after a second quarter that was catastrophic for Samsung. The company may still be the largest smartphone vendor in the world, but its market share dropped from 32.6 percent to 25.2 percent. And while overall sales grew by almost 27 percent, Samsung's shipments dropped by 1.5 million units to 74.5 million smartphones, according to Strategy Analytics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Black Hat 2014: The challenge of securing embedded devices and IoT on display
LAS VEGAS - Every year the numbers and the types of devices security professionals find themselves having to secure from attacks keep growing, and there's certainly no sign of that letting up at Black Hat 2014 this year.This week at the annual Las Vegas event, researchers Charlie Miller and Christopher Valasek in their talk A survey of remote automotive attack surfaces, will show how attackers – often remotely - can leverage vulnerabilities to hack vehicles, and in some cases quite seriously. While Logan Lamb will present how home security systems are susceptible to shenanigans in his presentation, Home Insecurity: No Alarms, False Alarms and SigInt.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
What will Apple unveil on Sept. 9?
Apple will be announcing…something on Sept. 9, according to the technology news site, re/code.net. But if re/code knows what it is, it is not saying.The brief post is distilled into a single sentence: "Apple has scheduled a big media event for Tuesday, Sept. 9 — a date to which Apple numerologists will strain to attribute significance," writes re/code's John Paczkowski. And that's it.+More on Network World: Drive-cloning utilities: The best Mac apps for making a bootable backup+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Sprint names new CEO after giving up on T-Mobile acquisition
Sprint has named Marcelo Claure to replace Dan Hesse as president and CEO, after giving up on its effort to acquire T-Mobile USA.Sprint announced Wednesday that Claure, who joined the company's board of directors in January, will assume his new role August 11. Claure is the founder and CEO of Brightstar, a subsidiary of SoftBank, Sprint's parent company.Sprint is the third largest carrier in the U.S. and had been trying to buy T-Mobile, the fourth-largest carrier, in an effort to compete with Verizon and AT&T. But Sprint recently gave up on the acquisition because it believed it would be difficult to get approval from U.S. regulators, according to news reports.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Sapphire displays for iPhone 6 may be hard to come by: report
Whether Apple can deliver the iPhone 6 with super-tough synthetic sapphire displays is still very much up in the air, according to a press release from a research firm that tracks the materials industry. Unspecified "bottlenecks at various levels" of the sapphire production process mean that Apple may limit this year's introduction of sapphire iPhone displays or possibly even scrap the plan. Apple is achieving its goal of reducing the cost of the displays, down to about $16 for a finished 4.7-inch cover, according to estimates by Eric Virey, senior analyst with Lyon, France-based Yole Développement, a market research firm, which issued a press release summary excerpting some data from Virey's most recent report, "Sapphire Applications & Market: from LED and to Consumer Electronic report," August 2014 edition. (The full report is available for a charge at the Yole website.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Russian hackers amass 1.2B stolen Web credentials
Criminals in Russia have amassed a huge database of 1.2 billion stolen user names and passwords and half a billion email addresses, a U.S.-based Internet security company said Wednesday.The data, believed to be the single biggest horde of stolen Internet identity information ever collected, was garnered from attacks that reached into every corner of the Web and hit around 420,000 sites, said Hold Security."Before, we were amazed when 10,000 passwords [went] missing. Now we're in the age of mass production of stolen information," Alex Holden, the company's founder and chief information security officer, told IDG News Service in a telephone interview.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Glaser returns to head RealNetworks, vows to be 'video cloud' leader
The ex-CEO who returned as interim CEO has been made permanent. This sounds familiar. Can history repeat? Read More
Anti-government hackers hijack Chinese cable TV, broadcast pro-democracy messages
Anti-communist hackers hijacked a Chinese cable television station during prime-time and broadcast anti-government messages Live Free or Die Hard style. Read More
2014's Starting Salaries for College Tech Majors
As summer is winding down and colleges and university are about to kick it into high gear, it's time again for us to look at how college technology majors stack up in regards to starting salaries. Read More
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