Monthly Archives: June 2013
Google Street View Displays Unique Images of Arab Culture
Google's Street View program has unveiled the collection's first-ever photographic contributions taken in the Arab world and from the top of the world's tallest...
Intel to Offer Online TV Service by End of 2013
Intel officials are prepared to begin selling a set-top box later this year, enabling customers to receive taped and live programming over the Internet.At...
Facebook Patches Mobile Text Vulnerability, Rewards Flaw Discoverer
Facebook has fixed a vulnerability that a U.K. security researcher discovered could have been used to hijack user accounts via Facebook's Mobile Texts feature.The...
Health Insurance Exchange Deadlines Challenging for States, IT Firms
As an Oct. 1 deadline approaches for open enrollment in health insurance exchanges (HIXes), mandated under the Affordable Care Act, IT vendors, the federal...
What the Oracle-Salesforce Lovefest Signifies to the Markets
Larry Ellison's entire business strategy can be capsulized in a single sentence: Companies, like sharks, survive only because they keep moving ahead. Sharks must...
PKThinks Tackles Copyright Issues in a Digital Age
PKThinks, the think tank of consumer-advocacy group Public Knowledge, has released the first of what's to be a series of white papers on "cutting-edge...
Windows 8.1 Preview Shows Fixes to Features Users Hated Most
The good news is that you can see the future of Windows 8 now. It’s available as a download from Microsoft and you can...
FCC Expected to Let Sprint Keep All of Clearwire’s Spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intends to approve Sprint's purchase of 4G provider Clearwire, and allow Sprint to keep all the spectrum that Clearwire...
Microsoft Wants to Disclose FISA Data, Too
In the wake of the PRISM scandal, Microsoft is taking a page from Google's playbook and requesting permission from the U.S. government to release...
Centrify Becomes Single Sign-On App for Dropbox
Enterprise single sign-on system access has been getting much attention recently as a method of making it easier yet more airtight for users to...