Emails shed light on Google's work with NSA
Two sets of emails obtained by Al Jazeera America under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that Google's cooperation with the NSA (National Security Agency) may have been less coerced than the company has let on. The emails date back to June 2012 and chronicle communications between NSA director General Keith Alexander and Google executives Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.
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Forrester: Businesses having trouble getting with the digital times
Although businesses acknowledge the disruptions digital technology will bring them, digital is still not driving business strategy, concludes a report entitled "The State of Digital Business in 2014" that is to be rele
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The new KB 2919355 Windows 8.1 Update causes more problems than it fixes
With one week to go until Microsoft's Windows 8.1 Update cut-off date blocks new patches on Win 8.1 mac
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Citrix brings desktop management to XenMobile
Citrix Systems wants to manage desktops and mobile devices with the latest version of XenMobile, and is also working on making it easier for XenApp users to upgrade. Citrix is this week gathering employees, partners and customers for the company's most important event, the Synergy conference in Los Angeles. The main theme this year is Citrix's continued efforts to let users access data and apps on any device, and let the IT department manage and secure all of it, according to Matt Morgan, vice president of corporate product marketing management at Citrix.
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Workday takes another shot at Oracle, SAP with recruiting app
Workday is expanding its competitive assault against Oracle and SAP with the general availability of Workday Recruiting, an application for finding the most qualified internal and external job candidates. Development began on Workday Recruiting 18 months ago, but customers had been asking for the application for years, said Leighanne Levensaler, vice president of HCM (human capital management) products.
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Level 3 accuses Comcast, other ISPs of 'deliberately harming' broadband service
At first glance, the widely publicized spat between Comcast (and other ISPs) and Internet backbone provider Level 3 looks like a cut-and-dried case of evil greedy telecom versus a noble provider of Internet goodness.
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GitHub releases free and open Atom code editor
After months of testing and loads of hands-on feedback from tens of thousands of users, GitHub's programmable text editor Atom is now available for the general public to download.
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Dell moving Project Ophelia thumb-size PC to consumers
Dell is making updates to its Android-based, thumb-size PC called Wyse Cloud Connect -- widely known as Project Ophelia -- as the company moves to make the stick computer suitable for consumers. A new consumer-friendly user interface for Wyse Cloud Connect is in the pipeline, said a company spokeswoman in an email. Consumer purchases of the device have been minimal, as the product is mainly being bought by enterprises, but a consumer marketing strategy is being planned.
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Salesforce combining Radian6 with Buddy Media to create Social Studio
Salesforce.com is releasing Social Studio, a new product that combines features from its Radian6 social-media-monitoring technology with the content publishing capabilities of its Buddy Media software for marketers. Social media has rapidly gained prominence as a target for marketers, but many companies are using a slew of different tools, resulting in a disjointed, inefficient effort overall, said Marcel LeBrun, senior vice president of social products.
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Dropbox disables old shared document links to prevent unintended access
Dropbox has disabled old shared document links in a bid to prevent its users' files from being accessed by unintended recipients. Before the change, anyone in possession of a Dropbox shared document link could access the file it pointed to, but the documents were inaccessible to those without the link, a form of security through obscurity. That poses no problems when users know who has the link, but there are a number of unexpected ways that information can fall into other hands, prompting Dropbox to disable links shared before May 5.
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Google Now gets smarter for real-world scenarios
Whether you've lost your car or lost your Internet connection, Google Now is getting a little more helpful. Google Now is an app for mobile devices that acts like a personal assistant, looking at things like your location, calendar and email to remind you that you have a lunch date, for instance -- and what time you should leave to get there.
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Lenovo brings a twist to Chromebook design with N20p touchscreen
Lenovo is bringing a unique design to Chromebooks with the N20p Chromebook, which has a touchscreen that can rotate roughly 300 degrees to a "stand mode." In close proximity, the stand mode also makes the Chromebook convenient to view media content, said Robert Eckard, Lenovo's senior product manager for notebooks.
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Heartbleed-like bug in OpenSSH dismissed as a hoax
Hackers claiming to have found a critical flaw in a widely used open-source remote login software, OpenSSH, are likely bluffing, according to a developer affiliated with the project. OpenSSH is used to remotely log into Unix-based systems securely and is incorporated into a number of operating systems, routers, and switches made by vendors such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, and Red Hat.
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