Monthly Archives: September 2014
Daily Tech Briefing: Sept. 24, 2014
BlackBerry CEO John Chen announced that the company will price its new Passport smartphone at $599 without subsidies when it goes on sale Sept....
Microsoft Launches Office 365 Bug Bounty Program
Find an Office 365 vulnerability. Get paid.Mirroring the ongoing shift from packaged software to cloud computing in the workplace, Microsoft has launched a new...
Microsoft Unwraps a Chromecast Competitor
Google's popular Chromecast media dongle for HDTVs will soon be facing off against a competitor from Microsoft.Like Chromecast, the straightforwardly named Microsoft Wireless Display...
Apple Quickly Pulls Back a New iOS 8 Update Due to Problems
Apple launched an update of its week-old iOS 8 operating system for iPhones, iPads and other devices early on Sept. 24, and then quickly...
BlackBerry Passport Designed With Busy Business Users in Mind
The idea behind the BlackBerry Passport is to provide a device aimed specifically at users who need more screen real estate than is usually...
Xamarin Test Cloud Launches for Mobile Developers to Test Apps
Xamarin, a provider of cross-platform mobile application development solutions, has released the Xamarin Test Cloud, the company's mobile app quality service that enables developers...
Samsung Beating Apple to China With New Smartphones
Samsung's new large-screen Galaxy Note 4 smartphone will be offered for sale in China later this month by three Chinese cellular companies, while Apple...
Broadcom Unveils New Networking Silicon for Scale-Out Data Centers
Broadcom is rolling out new networking switch silicon aimed at highly scalable data centers, such as those run by cloud giants like Google and...
Some iPhone 6 Owners Reporting Phone Bending Problems
Some iPhone 6 owners are reporting the first potential problem areas with the new devices—reports are coming in from around the world about the...
Newcomer Magnitude Software Raises $100 Million in VC
Austin, Texas-based Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management software, revealed Sept. 24 that it has secured up to $100 million in capital...