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BlackBerry Lets Go of Its Classic Phone

Meanwhile, the United States Senate has decided to stop purchasing BlackBerry smartphones to issue to staff but will use up existing stock The Sergeant at Arms late last month notified administrative managers, chief clerks and sysadmins of the decision, according to Jim Swift...

OPINION

What Will HPE Sell Next?

HP's networking was its most powerful asset when Whitman took over, but she slowly got rid of all the top networking execs. It still seems to concern Cisco, though, which means it still has a great deal of potential value -- though with the staffing changes, it likely has a sell-by date after which it won't be worth much. ...

Facebook Tweaks Trending Topics Out of Abundance of Caution

"It's commendable that Facebook is making internal changes and being more transparent about how it produces the Trending Topics section, but it remains improper under the First Amendment for a senator to inquire into what amounts to Facebook's editorial practices," said Sofia Cope, an EFF staff attorney...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Vendors Gain Congressional Support on IT Pricing

"It's my sense that DoD will try to retain the LPTA contract vehicle. I don't foresee that DoD or the civilian agencies will scrap the use of LPTA altogether for major IT projects," said Jonathan Etherton, president ofEtherton & Associates and a former staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee...

Otto Kits Out Big Rigs With Aftermarket Self-Driving Tech

The company was founded by Anthony Levandowski, who previously worked on Google's autonomous vehicle program; Lior Ron, the former project lead for Google Maps; Don Burnette; and Claire Delaunay. Its team of 40 includes other former Google employees as well as staffers who have had experience at Tesla, HERE, Apple and Cruise...

Law Affords More Protection to PINs Than Prints

"There are requirements before the Fifth Amendment can apply, and one of those requirements is that whatever the government is trying to get you to do needs to be testimonial, it needs to convey something about what's going on in your mind," said Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney with theElectronic Frontier Foundation...

Salesforce Brings Lightning to Government Cloud

Salesforce Lightning was built to improve the core sales features used by sales staff, including the following: Activity Feed, which tells users what just happened in an account and what they need to do next;...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

BlockIQ Escalates War on Ad Blockers

April 18. Payroll records of the town of Essex's employees are at risk after they were emailed to a fraudster posing as a town staffer, Burlington (Vermont) Free Press reports April 18. A lawsuit seeking class action certification has been filed in federal district court in Co...

FBI Says Its Hands Are Tied on Revealing iPhone Crack Details

"The VEP is by its own terms supposed to apply to any vulnerability that the federal government knows of, without regard to how it learned of the vulnerability," said Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The fact that this vulnerability ...

INSIGHTS

App Dev Today

The integration technology available today is quite good at making cloud integration straightforward, but it's not free of effort. When something changes in one cloud app, IT staff often are compelled to understand how the change ripples through the rest of the company's cloud infrastructure...

White Hat Finds Security Threats on Facebook’s Corporate Net

"Having a completely external entity look at your infrastructure is the closest you can get to the mindset of an actual attacker," he said. "This exercise allowed Facebook to better secure this application and boot out a genuine malicious actor who was intent on collecting Facebook staff credentials."

Hospitalized Stossel Bemoans Sorry State of Healthcare Customer Service

Onerous regulations and lots of paperwork increase the stress on staff who then "ignore common sense and follow rigid rules." There is "practically no free market" in the healthcare industry because government or insurance companies pay the bills, Stossel contended. "Markets w...

Fusion Launches Enterprise Cloud Contact Center Solution

Customers are given options for scheduled or Web-based callback, which improves service levels, network efficiency and response times, while enabling staff reductions, Sarro added Contact 360 is a SaaS solution, but "we are not a virtual contact center and don't offer on-deman...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Insurance Industry Buzzes Over Data Breach Ruling

April 12. JMW Solicitors announces 5,954 current and former employees of supermarket chain Morrisons have joined a lawsuit against the company seeking damages for data breach that exposed on the Internet personal information of 99,998 staffers. April 12. The Identity Theft Re...

EU Levels Antitrust Charges Against Abusive Android

However, last year The Wall Street Journal reported that the commissionignored the advice of key staffers to sue Google because they believed it was doing harm to consumers and innovation "The FTC completely blew its investigation on the search monopoly," Consumer Watch's Simp...

60 Minutes Shows How Network Flaw Makes Any Smartphone Easy Prey

"These vulnerabilities are quite serious, and they certainly warrant immediate action by nearly every phone company which is part of the SS7 system," said Cooper Quentin, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "It is a near certainty that criminals and spie...

Microsoft Sues DoJ Over Spying Gag Orders

Microsoft receives a "staggering" number of orders in these type of cases, noted Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Andrew Crocker "We applaud Microsoft for challenging government gag orders that prevent companies from being more transparent with their customers amo...

Senate Committee Hears Litany of IRS Cybersecurity Failings

Congress has cut the IRS's budget sharply since 2010, and IRS funding is 17 percent below the 2010 level, adjusting for inflation, theCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities reported this month. The agency has cut staff by 14 percent since 2010 "It's possible that further fundi...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

E2E Encryption Could Make WhatsApp a Spam Magnet

Nuix's search technology was developed in 2000 at the request of the Australian government. "They had a huge cache of Lotus Notes emails, and they didn't have a way to tag them, format them and make them easily searchable," said Keith Lowry, Nuix's senior vice president of threat intelligence and a former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Defense...

Report Throws the Book at Yahoo

Investors have found several slides in the deal book confusing, the report notes. The costs of some search staff apparently are listed under research, and regional unit figures are located in different categories. More troublesome is that senior Yahoo executives, including M...

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