Monthly Archives: October 2015
FireEye Reveals New Android Malvertising Threat
Security firm FireEye today is reporting on a new malicious adware attack called Kemoge that is already affecting Android users around the world. While...
Big Switch, Facebook to Demonstrate Open Switch Software
Big Switch Networks, Facebook and NTT are unveiling a Linux-based network operating system that can be used to bring together the disparate networking components...
Samsung’s Q3 Profit Forecasts Beat Analyst Estimates
Samsung's estimated third-quarter 2015 operating profit is expected to be about $6.3 billion, an increase of about 80 percent from the same quarter one...
Surface Pro 4, Surface Book Headline Microsoft’s Windows 10 Event
Surface Pro 4, Surface Book Headline Microsoft's Windows 10 Event
While Microsoft's first-ever laptop made a surprise appearance at the company's Windows 10 hardware event,...
Nokia Will Create 4 Business Groups After Alcatel-Lucent Deal
Nokia will split its networking business into four business units after the acquisition of rival Alcatel-Lucent closes, part of the larger organizational and executive...
Instant Messaging Continues to Grow, Led by Asia
The popularity of instant messaging (IM) has soared over the past year, with a 12 percent rise in daily usage as more people opt...
Average Cost of Cyber-crime in the U.S. Rises to $15 Million
With a seemingly endless stream of breaches reported over the course of the past year, it should come as no surprise that costs associated...
Sprint Upping Price of Its Unlimited Data Plan on Oct. 16
Sprint's existing $60 a month Unlimited Plan that includes no restrictions on data use, talk minutes or texts will go up in price to...
Russian Regulator: Google Has 1 Month to Drop App-Bundling Policy
Russia's anti-monopoly regulator has given Google one month to comply with an order requiring the company to stop giving preferential treatment to its own...
IBM Uses Nvidia GPU Accelerators in Linux Power Systems
IBM officials for the past few years have been working with Nvidia to bring GPU accelerators to some of Big Blue's Power-based servers used...