Monthly Archives: July 2014
Google Capturing Global Street Art Images in New Online Exhibition
Google has been gathering more than 5,000 images of ornate and beautiful street art from around the world in a series of some 100...
Cyber-Attacks Seen Defrauding Brazilian Payment System of Billions
Cyber-criminals have infected nearly 200,000 computers in Brazil and used their access to issue payment vouchers with an estimated value of $3.75 billion, according...
Google Glass Banned in U.K. Movie Theaters
Google Glass units have only been on sale to early Glass Explorer beta testers in the United Kingdom since June 23, but already the...
Critics Decry Google’s Deletion of Links to Comply With EU Courts
A new European Union law that allows citizens to request the removal of negative information about them when it turns up in online searches...
HP Labs: Breaking PCs to Build Better Systems
HOUSTON, Texas—Hunt Hodge, a distinguished technologist with Hewlett-Packard, paced in front of more than three-dozen journalists and analysts. After few minutes of talking, Hodge...
Surveillance, Commercialization Threaten Web Freedom, Pew Study Finds
Four major trends threaten the future of the Internet and could result in a network restricted by governments, fenced off by corporations and no...
How Card.com Is Securing Itself and Its Users With Open Source
Finding and fixing bugs is always a challenging task, but it's a task that prepaid card vendor Card.com is making easier by leveraging crowdsourcing...
Microsoft Declares War on Email Attachments With Outlook Web App Update
Microsoft is cutting a few steps out of the process of working with email attachments with a new update for Outlook Web App users.The...
Microsoft and Canon Agree to License Patents
Another device maker has taken Microsoft up on its offer to share IP.Microsoft has entered into a patent cross-licensing deal with Canon, the Japanese...
Daily Tech Briefing: July 3, 2014
ARM and Linaro are rolling out a hardware development platform, code-named Juno that is designed to run a 64-bit edition of Android to enable...