Michael Dell raises buyout offer for Dell
Michael Dell has raised his offer to take Dell private by $0.10 per share, to about $24.7 billion, after the company was forced to delay a vote because stockholders seemed inclined to reject the...
View ArticleSprint reports $1.6B net loss as it shuts down Nextel platform
Sprint Nextel made a net loss of $1.6 billion for the second quarter, swollen by the cost of shutting down its Nextel wireless network, but the company is more optimistic about future profitability.The...
View ArticleReport: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry's BES encryption
The U.S. National Security Agency is able to read messages sent via a corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel. The purpose of this spying...
View ArticleReports: Google close to manufacturing a smartwatch
Google could be a few months away from mass production of a smartwatch, a move that would put it in competition with vendors Pebble Technology, Sony, and Samsung Electronics, according to media...
View ArticleBlackBerry ditches CEO and accepts $1 billion loan from Fairfax, others
BlackBerry has fired its CEO and accepted a $1 billion loan from a consortium led by shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has...
View ArticleEdward Snowden: A child born today will have no conception of privacy
"A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all," Edward Snowden warned Wednesday in a message broadcast to U.K. television viewers."They'll never know what it means to have a...
View ArticleComcast buys Time Warner Cable in $45.2 billion all-stock deal
Comcast will acquire Time Warner Cable in a $45.2 billion all-stock deal, the companies said Thursday.The merger will accelerate innovation and, in time, allow customers of both companies to profit...
View ArticleAMD optimizes Android for Windows PCs and tablets
Advanced Micro Devices has optimized a version of Android for tablets and PCs containing its chips, and will sell it on new PCs through retail stores in Europe.AMD doesn't intend that Android will...
View ArticleAt Cebit opening ceremony, data privacy takes center stage
Protecting privacy was on the minds of almost all the dignitaries assembled in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday night to open this year's Cebit trade show, the theme of which is "datability," or big data...
View ArticleResearchers hope to secure development of mobile apps with faster code scans
Fraunhofer Institute researchers are working to speed up the scanning of mobile app code for security flaws, aiming to offer developers in a few milliseconds the kind of analysis that once required an...
View ArticleSecusmart puts its BlackBerry encryption chip to work on the desktop
At around €2,000 ($2800) each, the secure smartphones that SecuSmart showed at Cebit last year were out of reach of many businesses -- although three governments have since bought them to secure mobile...
View ArticleDropbox disables old shared document links to prevent unintended access
Dropbox has disabled old shared document links in a bid to prevent its users' files from being accessed by unintended recipients.Before the change, anyone in possession of a Dropbox shared document...
View ArticleRush to defend against Heartbleed leads to mistakes with certificates, patches
Despite taking prompt action to defend against the Heartbleed attack, some sites are no better off than before -- and in some cases, they are much worse off.Many of the sites that patched vulnerable...
View ArticleIBM buys access control and identity management firm CrossIdeas
IBM has added to its security software portfolio with the purchase of Italian access control and identity management firm CrossIdeas for an undisclosed sum, the companies said Thursday.The company,...
View ArticleOpenStack users: We need more experienced staff
Paradoxically for a platform intended to automate cloud service deployment, a major obstacle to wider adoption of OpenStack is a lack of qualified staff, speakers and attendees at the OpenStack Summit...
View ArticleAndroid apps exploit permissions to access personal info, researchers find
Android apps really do use those permissions they ask for to access users' personal information: one online store records a phone's location up to 10 times a minute, French researchers have found. The...
View ArticleBlackBerry reports falling revenue, but a smaller loss
BlackBerry's revenue continued its dive in the three months to Nov. 29, but on Friday the company reported a smaller loss than a year earlier.Revenue for the three months, BlackBerry's third fiscal...
View ArticleApple plans two European data centers running on renewable energy
Apple plans to open two European data centers running on renewable energy in 2017, following similar moves by Google and Facebook in the region.The new data centers will host a number of Apple...
View ArticleEricsson seeks to block sales of Apple products in US, stepping up patent...
Some Apple products may be banned from sale in the U.S. if Ericsson gets its way after filing a barrage of patent lawsuits.The Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor filed nine lawsuits against...
View ArticleIBM teams with BlackBerry and Samsung to offer governments a secure Android...
IBM is entering the tablet market -- sort of. The company plans to sell a modified Samsung Android tablet this summer with extra security capabilities, aimed at government users.The SecuTablet was...
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