Cybersecurity Predictions 2015, Cybercriminals Leverage Espionage Tactics (video)

Cybercriminals to Leverage Espionage Tactics: Sentonas: Video - Bloomberg:
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McAfee's Mike Sentonas gives his cybersecurity predictions for 2015. He speaks with Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat on "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg  12/10)

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Microsoft: Cheap PCs are here to stay
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... at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week. Microsofthas historically charged PC makers about $50 per Windows ... Microsoft is trying to fight off the insurgent threat of Google's Chromebooks ... That's a concern as Apple (AAPL, Tech30) Macbook sales have grown far ...


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Google Named Best Place to Work
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Much has been said about Google's free food and on-campus perks, but ... “There are fewer technology companies and more consulting companies, ...
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Fight or flight: Amazon gets tough with the FAA
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For Amazon and its drones, the FAA must seem like a heavy cloud cover that ... Amazonwas hoping to be among those allowed to do trial runs with its ... aircraft systems]technology innovation in the United States," Amazon's vice .... In the past he has been CNET's beat reporter for Google, Yahoo, Linux, ...


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Apple-IBM venture offers up first iOS apps
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The partnership between Apple and IBM is starting to bear fruit. ... Don Reisinger is atechnology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to ...
Apple releases iOS 8.1.2 update to fix bugs and address lost ringtones - Mashable


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Apple: Icon, Icahn Or iGone?
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The Christmas holiday season will probably help produce an excellent quarter for Apple. After all, it is a technology icon. But it may be their last great ...


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Google injects smarts, stickers into Hangouts communication app
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The updated app, available for Google's Android mobile operating system first but submitted to Apple for approval on iOS, also lets people express ...

Google Launches New Cardboard VR Headset App Collection
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With Oculus VR and the Samsung Gear pushing the very limits of what you can cram on your face to see things in 3D, the Google Cardboard project is ...

HERE Maps for Android drives onto Google Play for free
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Google Publishes 'Live Channels For Android TV'
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Twitch DDoS Attack, Alibaba Profit Triples (video)

Alibaba Profit Triples Ahead of IPO: Video - Bloomberg:
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Oberweiss Asset Management Senior Analyst Jeffrey Papp, Bloomberg’s Leslie Picker and Cory Johnson discuss Alibaba’s profit numbers. They speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg Aug27)

Twitch hit by DDoS attack right after Amazon announced purchase - Pocket-lint: "This commercialisation of a platform that was built for gamers could be why it's now under attack. The thought of having to sit through lots of adverts or having items to buy thrown at you constantly might be too much for some."

PC market in 2014 a bit less dire than previously thought | PCWorld: "PCs with the older Windows XP OS are being upgraded in larger numbers, IDC said. Chromebook shipments are also growing, particularly in the education sector, which has contributed to the improved outlook."

Can Windows 9 Help Microsoft Win Back Lost Customers? - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha: "....those who work for a living don't want to be annoyed by apps that crave attention. They don't want to be WOWed by on-screen animations, or stare at screensavers on end. There may be some people who like these distractions. So, the company should give users a simple way to get rid of such annoyances. Another thing is the Windows app store. It's a mess in there. Microsoft's app store is infested with scam. Fake apps turn up frequently in popular searches. Microsoft will have to resolve these issues before people currently using Mac, Chrome or Ubuntu will even consider coming back."

Amazon Muscles In On Google Ad Dollars
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Amazon's offering is expected to resemble AdWords, Google's engine that ... But Amazon is also reportedly developing a tool to enable advertising ... David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy at Oracle Oracle Retail, saw ... “Google and Facebook have different views of those shoppers based on ...


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9 Things You May Not Have Known About Google Now
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Google Now is known mostly as the search giant's Siri competitor. Available on many Android phones and as part of the Google app for iPhone, ...


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Apple wearable rumored to debut with iPhone 6 in September
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Apple will debut a wearable device alongside the September 9 iPhone ... similar to devices running Google's wearable-specific Android Wear OS.


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New Google Nexus Leak Confirms 192-Core, 64-bit Apple Rival
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Last September Apple Apple caused a stir when it announced iOS 7 and the accompanying iPhone 5S would support 64-bit operation. The move to ...


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Judge Denies Apple Request for Injunction Against Samsung Phones, Tablets
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Samsung smartphone Galaxy J SC-02F, left, and Apple's iPhone 5s are seen in ... Apple had sought a permanent injunction against certain Samsung ...


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California's Embrace of Anti-Theft Technology in Smartphones Puts a Squeeze on Thieves
New York Times
If the history of security technology is any indication, the kill switch could ... Since Appleintroduced so-called kill switch technology for its iPhone in ...


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​Google goes public with security audits to ease corporate concerns
CNET
Google is taking unprecedented steps to show its cloud, business, and ... Google, along with Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and others, has become ...

Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More
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Dropbox, MediaFire, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive all offer 1TB for ... And if you're a hardcore Apple fan who revels in simplicity and doesn't ...

Time Warner internet outage affects millions of US broadband customers | Technology | theguardian.com: "The FCC is currently reviewing a deal for company to be purchased by Comcast – a cable and internet giant. The deal comes after Time Warner received a $60bn offer from smaller rival Charter Communications, but accepted Comcast’s offer of $45.2bn after Charter threatened to unseat the company’s board of directors."

Why Apple's next iPhone will be bigger than people think: "It's a big year for the iPhone, literally. At a choreographed coming-out party on Sept. 9, the entire tech world expects Apple to show off a device with a 4.7-inch screen, and possibly one with a 5.5-inch screen...."

Twitter Opens Its Analytics Dashboard To Everyone: ".... this page lurking in Twitter’s support base confirms it: the dashboard should now be open to every account that has been open for at least 14 days, isn’t restricted/protected/suspended, and (curiously) that primarily tweets in English, French, Japanese, or Spanish. You can find the newly unlocked analytics dashboard right here...."

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LG Exits Traditional PC Market, Thank You Microsoft!

LG now, many more to follow as Microsoft successfully kills its Windows PC market --

LG 'to exit traditional PC market' amid declining sales and profit squeeze | Technology | theguardian.com: "Korea's LG Electronics is said to be preparing to exit the traditional PC market, as worsening margins and sales make it uneconomic, presaging a shift to tablets, smartphones and "hybrid" PCs. The announcement could come at next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where LG will have one of the first press conferences of the whole event. According to the Korea Times the company has even considered a wholesale exit from Windows PCs as its sales have shrunk...."

Google looks to tap Australian telcos

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TELSTRA is among a group of telcos that have held high-level talks with Google about working together on a revolutionary project to beam wireless ...

Microsoft's Chromebook headache

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Redmond can bash Google's $199 laptop all it wants, but a look at holiday sales ... So was the Amazon announcement good news for Microsoft?

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Google's 4K video format to hit TVs, mobile devices, PCs

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Google is working with hardware makers so TVs, smartphones and PCs can play 4K content from YouTube and other streaming services while ...

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Google In 2014: 10 Predictions

InformationWeek
Google had a good year in 2013. As of mid-December, its stock was up about 55% for the year. Apple meanwhile was up a mere 4%. Google is ...

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Microsoft's Surface Tablet May Have Been Saved by Christmas

Wired
What's more, the boost put Microsoft ahead of Google-made tablets, which accounted ... Amazon's tablets saw the other most notable post-Christmas gain, up 0.6 ... Unsurprisingly, the top tablet was Apple's iPad, which, though more ...

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Microsoft's Project Siena Enables App Creation With No Programming

eWeek
Microsoft has delivered a beta version of a Windows 8 app codenamed Project Siena that enables business users to build apps without coding.

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Apple opens year on rough note after rating's cut

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Investors put pressure on Apple Inc. early Thursday and never let up on the year's first day of trading after Wells ...

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Google, Starbucks, Marijuana, Duck: Intellectual Property

Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's most-used Internet search engine, received a patent on a method of creating comic strips on social ...

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Why did Microsoft give up on PCs before the market did?

How's this for a killer corporate strategy? -- You have 90%+ market share of the desktop and notebook (PCs) market, but because Apple is having some success with touch screen tablets (iPads), you dumbdown your desktop OS (Windows) to basically a touchscreen tablet with keyboard OS, forcing OEMs and users to adopt more expensive touchscreens (which most people don't want or need on their PCs), incorporating confusing/dueling OS environments (Modern a/k/a Metro vs Desktop) in ALL Windows 8.x PCs, and then wonder why sales fall off the cliff, and people start abandoning not only Windows, but Microsoft altogether? Top selling notebook computer at Amazon? A Chromebook! Goodbye Microsoft -- soon, all you will have left is your Scroogled campaigns and a pile of #FAILS.

How to remove Microsoft account from Windows 8 PC, laptop or tablet - PC Advisor: "Add a Microsoft account to your Windows 8 PC, laptop or tablet. You'll need to be an administrator. Go to the Charms Bar, Settings, Change PC Settings. Then select Users, Add a User. Now you need only enter the appropriate information and follow the on-screen directions."

Charms Bar? Microsoft truly gave up on PCs before everyone else did.

Microsoft's Chromebook headache
FORTUNE ... the first- and third-bestselling laptops at Amazon over the holidays were not Windows PCs. They were Chromebooks ...

Replacement Surface Pro 2 devices being sent out with upgraded specs, includes newer CPU | WinBeta: "..."I returned my Surface Pro 2 (v. 256GB) because of the poor performance after the failed 12.10.13 firmware update. I recall the SP2 I returned having a i5 4200U processor. To my surprise, when I checked the System Properties in the Control Panel on my replacement SP2, the processor was upgraded to a i5 4300U @ 1.9Ghz. - 2.5 Ghz," one Surface Pro 2 owner stated on Microsoft's official support forum..."

Windroid: What if Microsoft forked Android? | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Chester Ng: " . . . .Microsoft is about to hire a new CEO who will be looking to make a bold move in an effort to “turn around” the most formidable and profitable “underdog” in technology history. A move like this would only reinforce Microsoft’s “devices and services” company mantra. What better way to pull together “One Microsoft” than rally all its troops for an epic battle… right on Google’s home turf – Android! ..."

Google's 4K video format to hit TVs, mobile devices, PCs | PCWorld: "“Starting in 2014, you’ll see products from major mobile, PC and TV partners that are using a new, more efficient video format called VP9 that gives you HD quality at half the bandwidth,” said Francisco Varela, global director of platform partnerships at Google, in an email."

Moto X drops to $399 without contract to start the new year — Tech News and Analysis: Kevin C. Tofel: "The combination of “big” screen in a small package, long battery life, relatively pure Android experience and special features – active display and touchless control – are the reason the X is my only Android phone at the moment."

China's Xiaomi plans to more than double smartphone sales in 2014 | Technology | theguardian.com: "... Barra later explained that Xiaomi is happy to sell phones essentially at cost, and then to make money from selling services on them, and noted that countries such as India, Russia and Indonesia were "sweet spots" for its business. Xiaomi is expected to start selling its phones in Singapore later this year. Lei said privately that Xiaomi had sold 18.7m smartphones in 2013 – a 160% increase from 2012 – and that sales revenues, including taxes, rose 150% to 31.6bn yuan (£3.16bn). Xiaomi's sales growth far exceeds projections for the global smartphone market, which is expected to expand at an annual rate of 18% a year until 2016, according to research firm Canalys ..." -- (Editor's note: All running on Android )

Google Is Shutting Down Bump

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Apple eventually released its own version of local file sharing with AirDrop. Flock ... We hope our new creations at Google will do the same.

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Google, Apple Nab 345 Patents That May Govern Your Next Car

Forbes
What will your next car be like? Google, Apple and other giants of the smartphone business have plenty of ideas. In fact, Google alone has 310 U.S. ...

Capital Technologies

Google, Ford, LSU, Baidu, HTC: Intellectual Property

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Google Inc. (GOOG:US), creator of the world's most-used search engine, asked a federal court in San Francisco to declare it doesn't infringe two ...

Apple denies working with NSA to create back door

MarketWatch
Apple Inc. said it never worked with the National Security Agency to create a back-door way for the organization to spy on iPhone users and it was ...

Washington Times

Microsoft Skype's Facebook, Twitter account hacked

Times of India
LOS ANGELES: The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit for ...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says Microsoft is "confused"

Tim Cook summarizes all the problems of Microsoft in one word: confused. Tablets or PCs? What is Microsoft trying to force its users to use? --

"They are confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they are trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they will do next? I can't answer that question, but what I can tell you is we have a very clear direction and a very ambitious goal. We still believe people are in this category [desktop and notebook computers] and we are not slowing down on our innovation. We have been hard at work on the Mac and we have exciting new ..." --Apple CEO Tim Cook (Oct 22, 2013) (source: Bloomberg)

Apple unveils iPad Air, new Macs for holidays
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Apple said upgrades to its Mac operating system and iWork software suite, which compete with Microsoft Corp's Excel, Word and other applications, will now be offered for all MacBooks and Mac computers. ... The market is awash in inexpensive tablets ...

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Apple's new Mac Pro revolutionizes the desktop workstation

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Apple took time out of its WWDC 2013 keynote speech to give the developers a sneak peek at its revamped Mac Pro workstation. Today, during its October event ...

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Apple makes iLife, iWork free with new iOS or Mac purchase

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Apple showed off revamped versions of its iLife and iWork apps Tuesdayat its ... which challenge's Google's cloud-based and web-based GoogleDrive, which ... Keynote, Apple's answer to Microsoft's PowerPoint, gets new transitions with ...

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Apple gives away OS X Mavericks

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And while Microsoft does charge for Windows upgrades, those from Windows 7, say, to Windows 8, it not only mimicked Apple's faster release tempo this year, ...

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Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems

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The desktop operating system is dead as a major profit center, and Apple just ... Like Microsoft, Google supplies operating systems to outside hardware makers, ...

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Apple updates iOS 7 to squash some bugs

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Apple's iOS 7, launched Sept. 18, may be its most troubled mobile operating system update. The new OS has been swiftly installed on more than two-thirds of ...

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Why Apple Wants Its Software to Be Free

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Amazon lifts free-shipping threshold

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Amazon to build huge distribution center in Southeast Baltimore

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Beyond a gadget: Google Glass is a boon to disabled

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Google has nothing to fear from new EU data law

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Google Checkout To Shut Down On November 20 | WebProNews

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Amazon raises free shipping minimum to $35 - Oct. 22, 2013
For over a decade, Amazon offered free shipping to U.S. addresses for orders that totaled a minimum of $25. NEW YORK (CNNMoney). Amazon has raised its free shipping minimum order to $35. .... Apple's new iPads in 90 seconds.
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Amazon increases free shipping minimum to $35 | The Verge
Amazon has offered free shipping to US customers for over a decade now on all eligible orders above $25, but that's changing today ... From iPad Air to Mac Pro: all the news from Apple's fall 2013 event ... Microsoft hides desktop mode on new RT tablets, drops 'RT'. .... Google Voice cannot receive SMS for iCloud keychain.
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Apple OS X Mavericks Launching Today for Free - IGN
Macbook, iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro owners will be able to get their hands on OS X Mavericks soon.
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This is everything that matters from Apple's fall 2013 event, in Apple's own words — indeed, there was a lot to cover ... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stock 1020 ...
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Catch up with all the news from Apple's fall 2013 event on October 22nd, where the ... Microsoftreportedly testing its own Google Glass-like. ..... cost that could help Apple combat aggressive pricing from competitors like Google and Amazon.
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Microsoft downplays 'RT' and hides the desktop on its Surface tablets | PCWorld: " . . . downplaying and perhaps one day removing the desktop from RT tablets is the right decision. Now, if only we could get Microsoft to dump the Windows 8.1 Start screen from non-touchscreen PCs …"

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