The great escape: How the NSA is driving companies out of U.S. clouds
Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed The latest wave of revelations about NSA spying may leave U.S. cloud providers with a black eye if many of their European customers decide to bail.
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SDL looks to battle Oracle, Salesforce.com in 'customer experience'
Customer experience has emerged as one of the enterprise software industry's hotter segments of late, as companies try to run marketing, sales and support across both traditional and digital channels. While Salesforce.com, Oracle, and other large vendors have generated headlines for their moves into customer experience, SDL is hoping to present itself as an independent alternative with a newly launched product suite.
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NSA happy to conduct industrial espionage on foreign firms, Snowden says
The National Security Agency (NSA) would happily carry out industrial espionage operations in pursuit of U.S. economic interests, Edward Snowden has alleged in a German TV interview. Sunday's interview with ARD TV from his Russian hideout was very light on concrete examples but Snowden did mention German firm Siemens as a hypothetical example.
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Microsoft's SkyDrive becomes OneDrive after trademark dispute
Microsoft has chosen OneDrive as the new name for its SkyDrive cloud storage service, which it had agreed to rebaptize after losing a trademark dispute last year with British broadcast TV and broadband provider BSkyB. After losing the case in a U.K. court, Microsoft reached an agreement with BSkyB in July that gave it a period of time to choose a new name for SkyDrive.
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Detroit wants its own high-tech visa
Detroit, a city in bankruptcy and dealing with a shrinking population, hopes to turn itself around with the help of 50,000 employment-based green cards. The visas would be made available under the EB-2 visa category, a visa for advanced degree professionals or those deemed with "exceptional ability" in the sciences, arts and business, said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, who pitched the idea on Thursday.
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Microsoft keeps chipping away at Windows XP's end-of-life deadline
As Windows XP's end-of-life date draws closer, Microsoft has begun backpedaling, opening the door to speculation about a possible stay of execution.
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Tech, telecom vendors spend millions on lobbying in DC
Google, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon Communications ranked among the top spenders on U.S. government lobbying in 2013, with Apple and Facebook increasing their lobbying expenses significantly, according to year-end lobbying reports released this week.
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How do you like them apples: Google and Samsung ink patent deal
Google and Samsung have signed a "global patent cross-license agreement" that covers the companies' existing patents and future ones over the next 10 years. In a brief statement released Sunday, Google and Samsung said the agreement covers "a broad range of technologies and business areas" without going into specifics.
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Microsoft targeted in phishing attack, likely by Syrian Electronic Army -- again
If you think your company has a hard time keeping out the bad guys, you're not alone.
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Google acquires artificial intelligence company DeepMind
Google has acquired DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company in London, reportedly for $400 million. A Google representative confirmed the deal Sunday via email, but said the company's isn't providing any additional information at this time.
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BitTorrent throttling in U.S. creeps back up
Most U.S. Internet users enjoy unfettered access to the Web. But that could be changing, if the upwardly creeping percentage of throttled BitTorrent users is any indicator.
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Samsung's Apple damages equivalent to 16 days' profit
The $930 million in damages Samsung was ordered to pay Apple last year for infringing its smartphone patents is more than some device makers earn in a year, but for Samsung it's equal to just over 16 days' worth of profit. The Seoul-based company reported its financial results Friday and said quarterly operating profit from its IT and mobile communications division, which sells primarily phones and tablets, came to 5.47 trillion won ($5.1 billion).
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DOJ files its first lawsuits over counterfeit apps
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first lawsuits over counterfeit smartphone apps, charging four men who now face up to five years each in prison. "These crimes involve the large-scale violation of intellectual property rights in a relatively new and rapidly growing market," Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ's criminal division, said in a statement Friday.
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