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Flame Singes Microsoft Security Certificates

Microsoft issued a ...

New Asus Desktop Converts Into Gargantuan Tablet

Asus on Monday unveiled an array of new hardware, including a hybrid Windows 8 desktop-cum-Android tablet at the Computex trade show in Taiwan The Transformer AiO has an 18.4-inch screen that can be detached and used as a standalone tablet....

Oracle's Java Case Takes Another Battering With API Ruling

With a ruling from United States District Judge William Alsup that application programming interfaces (APIs) cannot be copyrighted, it appears Oracle's lost yet another battle against Google over Java However, the war is not over. Oracle has indicated it will appeal, and the judge has indicated that Oracle should turn to patent laws in order to pro...

Customers See Red as QuickBooks Online Flounders

Many customers of Intuit's QuickBooks Online are reporting problems with accessing the service for reasons that remain unclear "I had a problem when I was uploading data from the desktop to QuickBooks Online," Claudia Bolding, owner of accounting software and bookkeeping services company Detailed Office Services, told TechNewsWorld.

Microsoft Puts Windows 8 Up for Another Round of Show and Tell

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled the latest version of its Windows 8 Release Preview in 14 languages This is the second preview release of the OS. The first, called -- appropriately -- "Windows 8 Consumer Preview," was released in February....

Re-Enter the Dragon

SpaceX's Dragon space capsule returned to Earth on Thursday, 10 days after it took off into the wild blue yonder to resupply the International Space Station The capsule touched down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. ET a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico....

Flame: Towering Inferno or Smoke and Mirrors?

For all the ruckus raised by security software vendors, it's unclear whether the Flame malware, which has mainly hit computers in Iran, is a cause for major concern or something of a dud Yes, it has been around for several years and has hit computers in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa. But its tot...

Growing Pains on the Horizon as Internet Traffic Surges

The growing world population combined with an increasing number of smart devices, faster broadband speeds, more Internet videos and growth in WiFi connections will see global Internet traffic surge, Cisco predicts By 2016, global IP traffic will hit 1.3 zettabytes a year, nearly four times its 2011 level....

Salesforce's Buddy Media Buy Could Produce a Power Couple

Salesforce.com is close to acquiring social media marketing manager Buddy Media for about US$800 million, according to AllThingsD Buddy Media's main business is helping corporations manage their brand presence on Facebook. It has branched out to other social media platforms, including Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn....

Encryption on the Go, Part 1

The growth of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, in which employees use their personal devices in the workplace, is proving to be a huge headache for IT Often underfunded, understaffed and overworked, IT now has to cope with a plethora of different devices running different operating systems -- or different versions of an operating system. The...

Dell's New XPS All-in-One Jousts With Apple

Dell on Tuesday announced its latest all-in-one desktop, the 27-inch XPS One 27 ...

Flame Malware Scorches Systems Across the Middle East

A cyberweapon of unprecedented sophistication is ripping through computer systems in the Middle East, security vendor Kaspersky Lab claims. It has dubbed the malware "Worm.Win32.Flame" -- or "Flame," for short Other security vendors, including McAfee and Symantec, have issued similar warnings, and there are claims that it was created, or at least b...

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The Shell Game of Privacy

This story was originally published on March 7, 2012, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. With much fanfare, the Obama administration recently unveiled a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protections online in the United States....

Activists Pressure Amazon Into a Change of Heart

Faced with a public rally outside the venue for its shareholder meeting at the Seattle Art Museum on Thursday, Amazon announced it would withdraw from a conservative business group and improve workers' conditions at its warehouses The protesters wanted Amazon to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which they accuse of violating l...

Yahoo's Axis Strikes Alliance Between Desktop and Mobile

Yahoo on Thursday launched Axis, a new mobile browser and plug-in ...

Motorola Dreams Up a Sweeter TV Interface

Motorola Mobility this week unveiled its DreamGallery video navigation software for content providers at a cable industry trade show DreamGallery lets users search hundreds of channels in seconds, bookmark and store their favorite content in one place, and discover new content tailored to their preferences....

Alcatel-Lucent Makes a Grab for Core Systems With New Backbone Router

Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday unveiled its 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS) core routing platform in a bid to take on rivals Cisco and Juniper Networks, the current leaders in the US$4 billion market The company's seeking to leverage the increasing demand placed on carrier networks by the growing move toward cloud computing and the explosion in onl...

Verizon Eggs On Data-Chugging Mobile Video With Viewdini

Verizon Wireless on Tuesday introduced Viewdini, a mobile video aggregation portal It will run on the company's 4G LTE network and let users search and access videos from a variety of content providers....

Why China Stuck Its Foot in Android's Door

China's antitrust authorities have approved Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, on the condition that the Android operating system remain open source and its code be made freely available to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Android devices had nearly 74 percent of the Chinese market in Q4, 2011, and that -- together with Google's large w...

Cable ISPs Form Fellowship of the WiFi

Five major cable service providers in the United States are teaming up to allow their high-speed Internet customers access each other's metro WiFi networks The five are Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable....

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