Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft petition US over surveillance requests
Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all filed petitions Monday with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as part of a renewed effort to reveal more information about government data requests. The companies had already petitioned the U.S. government to let them be more specific in reporting the volume of national security-related requests they receive, following the first leaks in June about government surveillance programs like Prism.
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Java 8 developer preview ready for testing
Even though a general-release development kit for Java SE (Standard Edition) 8 is not due until next year, Oracle is offering a preview build for developers to test right now.
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PostgreSQL 9.3 boasts better communication with other systems
For this year's annual update to PostgreSQL, the developers behind the open source database have added several new ways to communicate with other databases and data storage systems. PostgeSQL's foreign data wrappers, which have been used since PostgreSQL 9.1 to read data from other systems, can now also be programmed to write data to non-PostgreSQL systems as well.
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Lawyer: Verizon should be able to block websites
Verizon Communications should be able to block its broadband customers from going to websites that refuse to pay the provider to deliver their traffic, a lawyer for Verizon told an appeals court Monday.
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SAP's Business Objects update focuses on stability, data source support
SAP has unveiled a new version of its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software suite that features support for more than 140 data sources and the promise of more stable deployments. Business Objects 4.1, which was announced Monday, follows the 2011 release of version 4.0. That product slipped well past its original release date, but even with the additional time, many users reported stability issues.
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Intel ships power-efficient Haswell processors for tablets
After promising to bring power-efficient Haswell processors to tablets, Intel has now started shipping new low-power, fourth-generation Core i3 processors, including one that draws as little as 4.5 watts of power in specific usage scenarios. The dual-core Core i3-4012Y processor is part of a batch of new Haswell processors that could go into fanless tablets and laptop-tablet hybrids, bringing longer battery life to the devices.
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Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry's BES encryption
The U.S. National Security Agency is able to read messages sent via a corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel. The purpose of this spying is economic or political, and not to counter terrorism, the magazine hints. The report, published in English on Monday, cites internal documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Wireless USB to get high-speed jolt from WiGig
The WiGig high-speed wireless standard will power a new wireless version of USB through a deal between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the USB Implementers Forum. The Wi-Fi Alliance has transferred a specification for the WiGig high-frequency technology to the USB-IF as part of a broader effort to work with third parties to make WiGig useful.
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The end of Windows as we know it
Earlier this morning, Ina Fried at AllThingsD dropped a bombshell: Today, the Windows unit is going through a m
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Facebook offers real-time feed of user data to online and TV news
Facebook revealed a new tool that enables news organizations to tap into user comments and display them online or on TV in real time. The social network launched two tools on Monday, the Keyword Insights API (application programming interface) and the Public Feed API, it said in a blog post.
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Dell sticks with Windows 8 for business tablets
Demand for Windows 8 may be sluggish, but Dell still believes it's the best operating system for business tablets and plans to roll out more Windows 8-based products later this year, according to a senior executive at the computer maker. "Our Windows tablets are more secure and easier to manage than Android-based products and iOS-based products [because Windows is] on our tablets," said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and president of global operations at Dell. "And we are not going to change that."
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Beginner's guide to R: Painless data visualization
One of the most appealing things about R is its ability to create data visualizations with just a couple of lines of code. For example, it takes just one line of code -- and a short one at that -- to plot two variables in a scatterplot. Let's use as an example the mtcars data set installed with R by default. To plot the engine displacement column disp on the x axis and MPG on y: plot(mtcars$disp, mtcars$mpg)
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