Monthly Archives: October 2013
Google Maps Reintroduces Multiple Destination Feature
Google Maps left out one of its most useful features—the ability to create a map with multiple destinations—when it redesigned its user interface earlier...
Microsoft Rewards First $100,000 Bounty for Windows Security Break
Microsoft awarded more than $128,000 in bounties to researchers for finding vulnerabilities in its products, including a whopping $100,000 reward to one researcher for...
BlackBerry Founders Lazaridis, Fregin Consider Buying It Back
BlackBerry may not be the easy buy that Fairfax Financial Holdings perhaps anticipated.As BlackBerry's top shareholder conducts a due-diligence process, following its $4.7 billion...
Google Seeks Student Coders for Code-In, Summer of Code Events
Google is looking for great young software developers to participate in its upcoming Google Code-in 2013 and Google Summer of Code 2014 events.The latest...
How Dell Is Improving Its Standing in SSD Storage Sector
It was a lucky break that helped bring Compellent to Dell as an acquisition nearly three years ago, a deal that turned out to...
Microsoft Wants Ballmer’s Replacement This Year: Report
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed Aug. 23 that he was stepping down from his role as CEO within 12 months. New reports indicate that...
Internet of Things Could Bring On Attack of the Killer Toaster Botnet
There has been a lot of talk lately about the potential for the Internet of things—just this week Intel threw its hat into the...
Microsoft’s Mundie: Data Collection Fuels Need for New Privacy Rules
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Individuals, companies and governments are going to have to reconsider how they think about and deal with privacy as increasing amounts of personal...
T-Mobile, With Shakira, Announces Free International Data, Texting
T-Mobile, With Shakira, Announces Free International Data, Texting
by Michelle Maisto
Making the World Your Network
"It doesn't have to be this way," T-Mobile CEO John Legere...
Intel Begins to Lay Out Its Road Map for the Internet of Things
Intel Begins to Lay Out Its Road Map for the Internet of Things
By Jeffrey Burt
Intel’s Expansive Look at the Internet of Things
Ton Steenman, vice...