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Let's take Steve Jobs, for instance. I'll bet Apple's executive staff would like to have a chat with him from time to time, and if the Steve Jobs avatar were made visible, it likely could not only launch new products, but also interact with an audience. Much of the email cor...

Project Natick conducted the test to determine the viability of future underwater data centers, which eventually could run for 20 years or more without onsite support staff The project's roots go back to 2013 when Microsoft employee Sean James submitted a ThinkWeek paper propo...

"The video marketplace has been slow to respond to the changes in business models and technology that have swept through other media," noted John Bergmayer a senior staff attorney at Public Knowledge. "In part this is because many incumbents control content, distribution and the devices people can access programming on."

"Apple and Cook have been very strong on this issue," said Andrew Crocker, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "I think it's heartfelt on Cook's part -- he says he believes privacy is a human right, and Apple has introduced a number of features that suppor...

It seems that many of the community support staff never got the memo. Most of the website and the OS itself still are labeled as "Deepin." When the community released the latest version last month, it was called "Deepin version 15." As of this writing, it still was. A half-hearted name-change process is ongoing...

Jan. 5. A new administrative staff is appointed at Hellgate High School in Missoula, Montana, after email containing sensitive academic, medical, disciplinary and criminal information about hundreds of students accidentally was sent to 28 parents. Jan. 6. Uber Technologies ag...

"We're saying the district court is wrong, because there are allegations in the complaint that Cisco designed and customized its product with the knowledge it would be used for human rights abuses," said Sophia Cope, an EFF staff attorney "Once Cisco got the contract to work o...

Achieving this objective in such a way that everyone within Salesforce's staff, partner ecosystem and customer base clearly understands how all the pieces fit together is probably the company's biggest challenge at this stage Salesforce has achieved tremendous success because ...

In its report released last week, EFF claimed to have tested T-Mobile's optimization technology by using a T-Mobile 4G LTE phone to access a video that it posted on one of its servers. EFF staff tested it several ways: video streaming using HTML5; downloading the video to an SD card on the phone; downloading the video using a different file name to indicate it was not a video file; and downloading a completely non-video file.

IRS budget cuts resulted in a significant decline in staffing and uneven performance, theGovernment Accountability Office warned in 2014, when appropriations fell below fiscal year 2009. About 9,000 IRS employees lost their jobs since 2009, even though the agency's workload steadily increased...

Companies often fail to protect sensitive customer data, according to Charles Duan, staff attorney at Public Knowledge, who pointed to the AT&T breach in which call center employees had access to customer data, including 280,000 Social Security numbers. "I expect that many co...

Dec. 30. Hillsides, a child welfare agency, notifies nearly 1,000 clients and staff that their personal information is at risk after it was discovered that a former employee on five occasions sent unencrypted files containing the information to email addresses unaffiliated with Hillsides.

The internal debate surfaced last month. FTC staff members issued a notice that they were challenging the dismissal of a commission complaint against a company for alleged cybersecurity failures. An FTC administrative law judge who was selected to rule on the complaint dismissed it...

Fedora is an iconic Linux distro. It is a very popular choice in enterprise shops, but it's less than ideal for home and SMB use without an IT staff to make it work. That is where Chapeau 23 comes to the rescue If you are a legacy Linux user, you no doubt already caught the si...

Government installations also may be at risk, Enderle told LinuxInsider, as "governments have been attracted to the cost of Linux front ends for cost savings and they aren't well staffed to address problems like this. Cheap has its downsides." ...

Dec. 18. The Democratic National Committee suspends access to its voter information database to the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders after its staffers exploited flaw in DNC system to compromise data belonging to rival Hillary Clinton Dec. 19. The DNC restores acce...

Stores staying open until 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve include Kohl's, Best Buy and Sam's Club. Walmart will stay open until 8 p.m., Toys 'R' Us will go until 9 p.m., and Target's staff will await gift givers until 11 p.m. [*Correction - Dec. 24, 2015] About 40 percent of seasonal ...

At this time of the year, there's a great clamoring among the business publishing class for predictions. That is partly because prediction stories are considered easy to write, and once they're done the staff can go celebrate the holidays while their publication continues to deliver content.

"Specialist retailers can still have a place in the gaming landscape, if they focus on providing customers with an expertly curated experience," said IHS' Bailey. "A chance to try out games directly in store, say, accompanied by hands-on help and advice from staff, can still have a place."

The new Slack App Directory offers users more than 160 apps to extend communication features sorted into curated lists by category, popularity and staff favorites. Categories include design, marketing, office management, developer tools and productivity The directory is intend...