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Lumia Interest Sizzles on Nokia's October Event Teaser

Nokia has tweeted that it's doing something having to do with innovation on Oct. 22, but it won't say what or where. However, there's heavy speculation that the company set that date to unveil its much-delayed Lumia 1520 phablet The phablet is rumored to have a 6-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel HD screen....

Symantec Exposes Crackerjack Cybercriminal Group

Symantec on Tuesday disclosed the existence of a group of 50 to 100 top-rate hackers Named "Hidden Lynx" after a string of code Symantec found in its command-and-control server communications, the group is an advanced persistent threat that has skills well ahead of similar organizations in the region, such as APT1, Symantec said....

Box Unboxes Note-Taking App Beta

Cloud storage provider Box has unveiled a private beta of Box Notes, a real-time content creation and collaboration feature, as an add-on to its existing services Box Notes is designed to let business teams capture and share ideas on the fly....

Samsung to Keep Up With the 64-Bit Joneses

Samsung's next Galaxy smartphones will have 64-bit processors, according to J.K. Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, The Korea Times reported Samsung is apparently taking its cue from Apple's launch of the iPhone 5s, the first 64-bit-processor smartphone, earlier this week....

The Shift to a Subscription Economy, Part 2

The Shift to a Subscription-Based Economy, Part 1 Marine liability insurer The Shipowners' Club has signed up to get IT service management from Axios Systems on a Software as a Service basis....

Facebook's New Privacy Rules Spark FTC Investigation

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's latest overhaul of its privacy policies, The New York Times reported on Wednesday "We're monitoring compliance" with an FTC order issued previously against Facebook, said FTC spokesperson Peter Kaplan. Part of that "involves interacting with Facebook," Kaplan added....

Michael Dell Gets the Green Light at Last

Dell shareholders on Thursday approved founder Michael Dell's US$25 billion bid to buy back the firm and take it private, ending a seven-month battle with a group of investors led by corporate raider Carl Icahn This is reportedly the largest leveraged buyout since the Blackstone Group took hotel chain Hilton Worldwide private in 2007....

Dell Shifts to a Different Venue With New Win 8.1 Tablet

Dell on Wednesday revived its dormant "Venue" brand by unveiling a Windows 8.1 tablet that will run on Intel's new Bay Trail system on a chip Featuring an 8-inch screen, the device was announced at the Intel Developer Forum being held in San Francisco this week. Few other details about the upcoming device were disclosed....

Net Neutrality Wrecking Ball May Be in Motion

The United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Court this week heard oral arguments in Verizon's battle with the Federal Communications Commission over Net neutrality. Verizon, which has always opposed Net neutrality, raises three questions in its filing: Whether the FCC's open Internet Order imposes common-carriage requirements on service...

The Shift to a Subscription Economy, Part 1

Why buy when you can lease? That's a question businesses are asking both externally, as they offer products ranging from software to food, and internally, as they look at billing, ERP and other operations The upshot is that corporations are moving toward a subscription-based business model both inside and out....

Court Paves Way for Lawsuit Over Google's WiFi Fishing Expedition

The 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, in essence, that Google broke federal wiretap laws when its Street View cars collected data from unencrypted WiFi networks The federal court affirmed a district court's order denying Google's motion to dismiss the claim....

Intel Puts Its Chips on Internet of Things

Intel on Tuesday announced a new, lower-power family of processors, the Quark, at the Intel Developers Forum being held in San Francisco through Thursday This is part of the company's heightened drive into ultra-mobile devices....

Adoptive Parents Use the Web to Throw Children to Wolves

An underground system of online chat rooms exists for people to get rid of kids they have adopted, a joint investigation by NBC News and Reuters has found On average, a child was advertised for what's euphemistically being called "re-homing" once a week on one Internet message board Reuters watched for a five-year period.

Nismo Gizmo May Give Drivers Another Reason to Fiddle

Nissan on Monday unveiled a concept smartwatch that will connect drivers to their cars and provide them with real-time biometric data while tracking their progress across social media The Nismo Concept Watch will be created for drivers of Nissan Nismo cars....

NSA Breaks Data Encryption, Tech Firms Break Trust

News that the U.S. National Security Agency has worked steadily for at least the past decade to systematically undermine security has sparked an uproar on the Internet The agency -- whose motto is "Defending Our Nation. Securing the Future" -- has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption used to protect global commerce and banking systems, m...

Investors Toss $50 Million Zuora's Way

Zuora, which offers a billing, commerce and finance platform as a service for businesses using a subscription-service model, has raised US$50 million in E series funding from some major players Next World Capital, Vulcan Capital and Northgate Capital are the latest additions to the company's crowd of believers....

Webcam Maker Takes FTC's Heat for Internet-of-Things Security Failure

The United States Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a settlement with Trendnet over its lax security practices. The action stemmed from privacy invasions that occurred in January 2012, when hackers posted live feeds to the Web from nearly 700 cameras made by the company "Right now, we're doing enforcement, as you can see from the Tre...

Samsung Draws a Big 'Meh' for Clunky, Pricey Galaxy Gear Smartwatch

Samsung on Wednesday showed off its much-anticipated Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the IFA consumer show in Berlin The device serves as an ancillary to a user's Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, both also unveiled at IFA on Wednesday....

Android Team's Munchies Lead to Genius KitKat Tie-In

The Internet is abuzz with news that Google has teamed up with food giant Nestle to name the next version of Android after the latter's famous chocolate bar -- KitKat -- rather than continue its tradition of nonbranded nomenclature with the name "Key Lime Pie." ...

Microsoft Takes Nokia Under Its Wing

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will pay more than US$7 billion to buy all of Nokia's devices and services business and to license Nokia's patents as the latest step in its long-drawn-out quest to make some headway in the mobile market ...

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