Monthly Archives: June 2016
Yahoo Is First to Legally Disclose National Security Letter Contents
National Security Letters have been around as long as the Internet, but only after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have they been...
Xiaomi Buys 1,500 Patents From Microsoft
Six-year-old Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is buying 1,500 technology patents from Microsoft and will preinstall the Microsoft Office productivity suite and Skype on its...
Google Adds New Features for Tracking Phones to ‘My Account’ Hub
Users of Google's My Account hub for setting privacy and security preferences now have three additional options for accessing their controls and protecting their...
Attivo Networks Claims First to Use Deception Security in IoT
New-gen security provider Attivo Networks, which mimics a real IT system using a deception approach that lures bad actors in and then traps them,...
Distributed Weakness Filing System Enhances CVE Disclosures
With the increasing volume of security bugs, it is more challenging than ever for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) number identification system to...
ARM’s New GPU, CPU Designed for Virtual Reality, Mobile Gaming
Today's topics include ARM’s plans to enter the virtual reality, augmented reality and mobile gaming sectors, Asus’ hardware introductions at the Computex 2016 trade...
Salesforce Moves into E-Commerce with Demandware Buy
Salesforce has acquired 38 companies since 2006, and the most expensive by far was the one it announced June 1: $2.8 billion for e-commerce...
IBM to Buy EZSource to Help Developers Modernize Mainframe Apps
The mainframe is not dead, and IBM is doing its part to ensure that big iron will not be going anywhere for some time.Big...
Microsoft Opens Windows Holographic to OEMs
Windows Holographic, the augmented- or mixed-reality technology that powers Microsoft's HoloLens headset, is now available to the company's hardware partners, announced Terry Myerson, executive...
Microsoft Teams With Blockstack, ConsenSys to Develop Blockchain IDs
Microsoft already has high hopes for blockchain FinTech. Now, the software maker believes blockchain, the tamper-resistant distributed ledger technology that powers Bitcoin and other...