NSA denies knowing about Heartbleed flaw for years
The U.S. National Security Agency, which has a cybersecurity mission in addition to surveillance, has disputed a report that it knew about the Heartbleed security vulnerability for at least two years before other researchers disclosed the flaw this month.
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Tibco 6.0 moves outside the data center
Updating its platform for the hyper-connected cloud era, Tibco has equipped the new version of its flagship application-integration software with the ability to communicate with external applications. Tibco ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.0 also includes a redesigned visual interface and an in-memory data grid for faster processing.
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Rimini Street diversifies with cloud services for Workday, Salesforce.com
Independent Oracle and SAP support provider Rimini Street will now offer integration services for customers who want to adopt SaaS (software-as-a-service) offerings from the likes of Salesforce.com and Workday. IT environments are set to "transform" from monolithic software suites to ones that include specialized applications as well as a mix of on-premises and cloud-based software, Rimini said in a statement.
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Perl language's popularity hits all-time low
The Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month, dropping to 13th place.
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Dropbox's buffed-up business offering is better, but far from best
Last year Dropbox faced stiff competition in the business file-sharing space from a slew of other ve
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Don't overlook URL fetching agents when fixing Heartbleed flaw on servers, researchers say
Website operators should assess their whole Web infrastructure when patching the critical Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL, otherwise they risk leaving important components open to remote attacks, despite fixing the problem on their publicly facing servers.
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Google Glass to go on sale for one day next week
If you've been waiting impatiently to get a pair of Google Glass, mark your calendar and grab your checkbook. Google announced late Thursday that it will sell prototypes of the wearable computers for one day next week in an effort to expand its cadre of early testers, known as Explorers.
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Why Dropbox and Box are expanding beyond straight-up cloud storage
For companies in the cloud storage business, standing out from the pack isn't getting any easier, as many competing services are racing to the bottom with both free and paid offerings.
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Broadband faces a fork in the road
In 2010, Google kicked off a race to provide gigabit fiber networks to power users around the nation. Even so, four years later, about 28 percent of the nation's homes still have no broadband Internet connection at all.
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'Drop Dropbox' protests flare as wiretap proponent Condoleezza Rice joins board
With the unveiling of new Carousel and Mailbox apps and the rolling out of Dropbox for Business, CEO Drew Houston made it clear on Wednesday that Dropbox wants to be
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Website operators will have a hard time dealing with the Heartbleed vulnerability
Website and server administrators will have to spend considerable time, effort, and money to mitigate all the security risks associated with Heartbleed, one of the most severe vulnerabilities to endanger encrypted SSL communications in recent years.
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H-1B applications surge to 172,500 -- twice the cap
The U.S. received twice as many H-1B visa petitions as it can give out under its 85,000 visa cap, and is thus distributing the visas via lottery. In total, the U.S. received about 172,500 applications for H-1B visas -- that carry a 65,000 base cap and another cap of 20,000 for those who earned a master's degree or higher in the U.S., the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service said today. The visas picked in the lottery can be used in the 2015 federal fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
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Facebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said Thursday. Many of those posts are published by Pages that deliberately try to game Facebook to get wider distribution, the company said. The changes are designed to make more prominent the content people actually want to see, while better detecting and demoting other posts.
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Google recently joined the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance’s board
of directors in order to bolster their two-factor authentication
efforts. NXP and CrucialTec have also joined the board according to a
press release published by FIDO. 
MetroPCS shareholders have voted in favor of merging the company with
the nation’s fourth largest wireless provider. Shareholder approval was
the last major hurdle the deal faced as regulators had already given the
merger the green light earlier this year. 
Amazon has a team of engineers working on a "television set-top box",
anonymous sources in contact with Bloomberg claim. Of course, a TV-based
device would be a seemingly natural extension to Amazon Instant Video
as it continues to produce its own original content and cements
third-party content deals. 
Microsoft has added ZTE to the growing list of manufacturers that have
signed a licensing agreement with them over patents associated with
Android and Chrome OS. The announcement comes hot on the heels of a
similar deal with Foxconn last week and brings the total number of
licensees to 20.... 
Microsoft has officially confirmed May 21 as the reveal date for its
next-generation Xbox console. Invitations for a press event at 10:00 AM
Pacific Time on Microsoft's Xbox Campus in Redmond, Washington went out
today to select members of the press, while everyone else will be able
to access a... 
This week Intel added an 80GB model to its current line-up of 335
Series SSDs. The 2.5-inch 80GB drive is Intel's third and possibly final
addition to the 335 family poised to sit alongside its two larger 180GB
and 240GB siblings. The chip-maker's previous addition was a 180GB
model announced... 
Australian authorities claim they have arrested the self-proclaimed
leader of the hacking group LulzSec. The unnamed individual was charged
with two counts of unauthorized modification of data to cause impairment
and one count of unauthorized access to, or modification of, restricted
data. Combined, the offenses carry a maximum sentence of... 
Akamai has published its “State of the Internet” report for the last
quarter of 2012 today, offering an overview of broadband speeds per
country as well as figures on denial of service attacks, among other
interesting metrics. According to the report, average global connection
speeds rose 5 percent to 2.9... 
Earlier today Apple revealed that this year’s Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC) will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco,
California. The annual event will begin on June 10 and run through June
14 with tickets scheduled to go on sale at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
time on April 25. 
Google has acquired a natural language processing startup called Wavii
for more than $30 million. The search giant reportedly won the bid over
Apple, which wanted the company to use for their Siri division. It now
seems that Google will use the technology as part of their web search
team... 
Apple’s second quarter earnings exceeded analyst estimates despite the
fact that many thought Cupertino would come up short. The company
reported earnings of $9.5 billion on sales of $43.6 billion, topping
Apple’s own expectations of $41 billion to $43 billion. 
