Sony's Biggest Flops (video); Android Split for Work and Play

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Sony's famed and praised Walkman turns 35 this week but not every Sony product can say they've lasted that long. Bloomberg Ranx looks at five of Sony's biggest gadget flops. (Source: Bloomberg July 3, 2014)

Google Splits Up Your Android Phone for Work and Play | Business | WIRED: "... According to Amit Singh–who oversees business sales at Google–the software used to separate apps is based on technology Google acquired with its recent purchase of a company called Divide. The idea is that, by placing corporate apps in secure software “containers,” Google can allow businesses to manage and monitor them without messing with all the personal stuff on your phone. For instance, if you leave your job at a particular company, Singh told us after Pichai’s keynote speech, the company can erase all your corporate data and apps without touching, say, your personal Gmail account or Twitter app. For Google, the ultimate aim is to make Android more appealing to businesses that are concerned about securing corporate data on employee phones...."

Google Starts Scrubbing News Articles From Search After Court Ruling
TIME
Google In this photo illustration the Google logo is reflected in the eye of a girl on February 3, 2008 in London, England. Chris Jackson—Getty Images ...

Google makes way for wearables with Play Services update
PCWorld
Google has released a new version of Play Services that opens the door to more smartwatch apps and cooler games. Play Services is a set of features ...

Facebook may face European inquiries
Boston Globe
NEW YORK — Facebook could be in hot water with Europe's privacy regulators. The social network is facing potential investigations after it disclosed ...

Apple expands CarPlay to nine more automakers
Los Angeles Times
CarPlay, Apple's forthcoming vehicle radio system, will be supported by nine ... Googlelast week announced a vehicle radio system of its own called ...

Facebook's mind game was a violation of trust
Boston Globe
Every so often, the giant social network Facebook does something guaranteed ... And yetFacebook, Google and every other big-name Internet site ... ignore Google and ... at least dip into alternate services like Bing or Yahoo, or the ...

Amazon vows to fight FTC over sales to youths
Boston Globe
LOS ANGELES — Amazon said Wednesday it is prepared to go to court against ...Apple complained when the FTC announced its settlement with the ...

Google scoops up Songza and its modern version of the 80s mix tape
Computerworld
Music streaming service Songza announced today that it is being acquired by Google. Neither company provided financial details of the deal, ...

Microsoft trolls for Office beta testers
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft today put out a call for commercial and consumer beta testers to put upcoming versions of Office through the wringer.

Google Bans Porn From Its Ad Network
NBCNews.com
Google Bans Porn From Its Ad Network. Google is getting ... work in the industry. In May, Amazon began deleting the wish lists of several adult stars.

Microsoft Outlook Web App: Slicker Email Attachment Handling
InformationWeek
Microsoft Office For iPad Vs. iWork Vs. Google ... Earlier this year, Microsoft previewed a variety of upcoming tools designed to make Office easier to ...

Google Alerts British News Outlets About Deleting Their Links - NYTimes.com
By By MARK SCOTT
LONDON – A week after Google started to remove links to online content in Europe, some ... (The links, however, are still available on Google.com) ... market share in Europe, and other search engines like Microsoft's Bing. ... The Wall Street Journal | A senior Amazonexecutive on Tuesday defended the ...
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How Google Street View Was Created - Business Insider
By Lisa Eadicicco
Elliot Kroo, an engineer that claimed he was Google's youngest intern ever at 14, helped create ... Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google ... BEACONS: What They Are, How They Work, And Why Apple's iBeacon ...
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'Right to be forgotten': BBC, The Guardian, Daily Mail push back on Google
Sydney Morning Herald
A disgraced football coach and an investment banker involved in the global financial crisis are two of the early successful applicants to evoke the digital world's newly minted "right to be forgotten". Three major international news groups have received "notice ...

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How to Protect Your Company From Data Breaches (video)

How to Protect Your Company From Data Breaches: Video - Bloomberg:
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How to Protect Your Company From Data Breaches - Verizon's Eddie Schwartz discusses how to avoid data breaches with Angie Lau on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg May 26)

Report: Apple plans to introduce a connected home platform at WWDC
PCWorld (blog)
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off in a week, and ... And big tech companies already want in: Look no further than Google's ...

Apple focuses on music creation, travel writing in latest 'Your Verse' iPad ads
Apple Insider
Apple on Sunday released two new spots for its "Your Verse" iPad campaign touting the tablet's music creation and travelogue capabilities with stories from composer Esa-Pekka Salonen and travel writer Cherie King. Composer and principal conductor of the ...

Apple asks US court to make Samsung remove infringing features

Computerworld
IDG News Service - Following up on a jury verdict, Apple has asked a court in California to order Samsung Electronics to stop using features that were ...

Google 'Right To Be Forgotten' Ruling Unlikely to Repeat in US
NBCNews.com
... Security Agency secretly broke into communications on Yahoo and Google abroad and targeted overseas ... "The right to be forgotten is a great idea philosophically, but it is wrong to put the onus on Google or Facebook," she said.

Google, Costco and Facebook Best Employers in the US: Glassdoor Poll
NDTV
Google, Facebook and wholesale retailer Costco offer the best pay and benefit packages in the United States, according to employee ratings compiled ...

A Look At Amazon's Burgeoning Robot Army
Inventorspot
Currently, Amazon utilizes around 1,000 robot workers on its facility floors. ... In short, it looks like Google's not the only one building a robot army.

Facebook: We should know about the 4 new privacy
Views Times
Facebook has finally caved to public pressure and agreed to improve its privacy settings, but the tighter security for its traditional features also comes ...

Apple iPhone 6 is coming: What you should know
KENS 5 TV
Going into an iPhone launch there's never much doubt about whether Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) latest addition to the key lineup will sell better than its ...

Google's current stance on patents with Android would have prevented Google from ever having ...
Apple Insider
This might remind you of Apple's Siri, or the development of the NCSA web ... Out of the ashes of the Dot Com Crash, Yahoo and Microsoft rapidly began earning ... Over the ten years since that Yahoo deal, Google has maintained an ..... 

Yahoo's Ad Business Ain't Dead Yet - Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) | Seeking Alpha
By Alex Cho
Some environments are a little more ad-friendly, like the Facebook homepage, whereas other environments aren't as easy to advertise on, like Yahoo ...

Everything Is Broken — The Message — Medium: "Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. He put it in a script, and ran it to see what would happen, then went to bed for about four hours. Next morning on the way to work he checked on it, and discovered he was now lord and master of about 50,000 computers. After nearly vomiting in fear he killed the whole thing and deleted all the files associated with it. In the end he said he threw the hard drive into a bonfire. I can’t tell you who he is because he doesn’t want to go to Federal prison... This story isn’t extraordinary at all. Spend much time in the hacker and security scene, you’ll hear stories like this and worse...." (read more at link above)

U.S. Case Offers Glimpse Into China’s Hacker Army - NYTimes.com: "One man accused of being a hacker for the Chinese military, Wang Dong, better known as UglyGorilla, wrote in a social media profile that he did not “have much ambition” but wanted “to wander the world with a sword, an idiot.” Another, Sun Kailiang, also known as Jack Sun, grew up in wealthy Pei County in eastern China, the home of a peasant who founded the ancient Han dynasty and was idolized by Mao. They and three others were indicted by the United States Justice Department this week, charged with being part of a Chinese military unit that has hacked the computers of prominent American companies to steal commercial secrets, presumably for the benefit of Chinese companies...."

Intel Vs. Qualcomm: Who Has The Better Roadmap For 2015? - Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) | Seeking Alpha: "Intel will gain market share as a result of aggressive pricing and performance gains. However, I don't think Intel's graphics and modem solution will match Qualcomm's in 2015."

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