Pedro Hernandez

LinkedIn was hit by a breach in June 2012, affecting 6 million users, the social network originally said. Nearly four years later, a clearer picture of the incident has emerged: 100 million LinkedIn users’ passwords were potentially stolen. “On May 17, 2016, we became aware that data stolen from LinkedIn in 2012 was being made […]

The “botification” of Microsoft’s software portfolio continues this week with the 2.0 release of the company’s News Pro mobile and Web app. First launched in January, News Pro is a self-updating, news-reading app from Microsoft Garage that delivers a personalized selection of articles to users’ Apple iOS devices or their Web browsers. Users can search […]

Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative has awarded grants to 12 companies working to bridge the digital divide, the software giant announced this week. As its name suggests, the Affordable Access Initiative is a funding and technology partnership program that was formed to help bring low-cost Internet access to underserved communities. Launched by Microsoft last November, the […]

Building on Office’s existing accessibility options for visually impaired users, Microsoft revealed that it plans to add new capabilities. “I am excited to announce that Office 365 teams are not only working on enhancing the usability of VoiceOver with Office 365 iOS apps and Narrator with Windows 10 Mobile apps, but also the usability of […]

Microsoft is now offering customers a new cloud-based disaster recovery option that uses solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of disk-based storage. Enterprises using Azure Site Recovery, the company’s business continuity offering, can replicate their demanding workloads to the company’s Premium Storage tier of cloud storage. Instead of placing data on traditional spinning disks, Azure Premium Storage […]

Raspberry Pi is at the center of countless Internet of things (IoT) projects and experiments. The latest, courtesy of Microsoft, is networking 3D printers in multiuser Windows environments. Microsoft recently released a new sample app for Windows 10 IoT Core, dubbed simply Network 3D Printer, that enables owners of the popular Raspberry PI maker board […]

Microsoft is betting that the Internet of things (IoT) will not only transform how enterprises manage connected devices, but also how they provide customer service and support. The Redmond, Wash., software maker today released the Spring 2016 Wave update for its Dynamics CRM customer relationship management platform and announced its Connected Field Service solution for […]

A battle’s brewing over bots. Amid a slew of bot-related announcements this spring, a recent Microsoft job listing reveals that the company has been looking for a software engineer to help build a new bot called Bing Concierge. The online listing has been yanked since it was discovered this week by Business Insider and other […]

By all accounts, Microsoft already runs a pretty tight ship when it comes to making its business practices environmentally friendly. Since 2014, the Redmond, Wash., tech titan has been completely powered by renewable sources, using a combination of direct clean power purchases and renewable energy certificates that offset carbon emissions. This week, Microsoft said that […]

Microsoft hopes to end the tug of war between administrators and mobile users. On one end are users who don’t want to relinquish complete control of their own smartphones and tablets to their employers. On the other end are administrators who want to lock down those devices by imposing security-enhancing restrictions with mobile device management […]