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Samsung Catches a Small Break in Midst of Note7 Battery Pummeling

The CPSC is working "as hard as we can" to issue a formal recall announcement in cooperation with Samsung, commission spokesperson Scott Wolfson told the E-Commerce Times. Amperex Technology reportedly will become the new supplier of Galaxy Note7 batteries.

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Feds Seek Vendor Help for Payroll Processing Upgrade

The project is a "solid step toward better payroll processing in federal agencies and stronger shared-services in general. We look forward to seeing how this effort might pave the way for additional shared-services," she told the E-Commerce Times In fact, the entire federal pa...

Amazon Drops Wells Fargo Student Loan Program Like Hot Potato

"Mainly, there is a gap between what the federal government will loan you and the cost of tuition and living expenses," Malott told the E-Commerce Times. "That gap is sometimes filled by private student loans." ...

Dropbox Drops Other Shoe in Years-Old Data Breach

For security reasons, Dropbox could not answer any specifics about investigations into the hack, such as whether any outside security experts or law enforcement agencies have been looking into the breach, Morris told the E-Commerce Times. Late Notice ...

American Bookworms Still Love Paper

"When they got new formats to enjoy the thing they like to do, they picked up on the new format but they didn't give up on the old," he told the E-Commerce Times Shift in E-Book Landscape...

That Hissing Sound Is the Last Bit of Air Leaking From Apple’s Balloon

"Apple is using a number of third-party companies for components and manufacturing, making these leaks almost inevitable," he told the E-Commerce Times. "There are so many people involved in the process who know interest in this stuff is so high, it becomes an incredibly tempting target to go after." ...

Google Fiber’s Long, Tough Road Is Full of Twists and Turns

"Unfortunately Google entered the meeting with no intent of negotiating," AT&T spokesperson Brett Levecchio told the E-Commerce Times. "We offered several solutions that would have addressed Google's concerns without government intervention, but Google refused to compromise." ...

Feds Warn States to Batten Down Hatches Following Election System Attacks

However, why hackers targeted Illinois and not other states in this instance is unknown, he told the E-Commerce Times "Until law enforcement catches the who, I don't think we're going to have a sense of exactly why," Menzel said.

Echo Owners May Get Their Own Kind of Music

"If the service works only on an Amazon Echo, the user's now tied down to a single location, and while it may cost less, it will also be less functional," he told the E-Commerce Times Keeping Things Simple...

Europe Duns Apple for $14.5B in Illegal Tax Breaks

"While Apple and Ireland maintain that they are compliant with Irish and European tax laws, the way the tax structure was applied meant that Apple paid very little tax," he told the E-Commerce Times Meanwhile, the tax structure available to Apple wasn't available to other comp...

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Federal Agencies Told to Share Their Software

"For instance, it remains unclear what intellectual property the government will have access to if a software vendor customizes its commercial code for government purposes. In general, the commercial market considers such customization to be a minor modification to a commercial product and therefore subject to the applicable commercial license agreement," she told the E-Commerce Times.

HPE, HP Sued for Elbowing Out Older Employees

"The rationale is that young people are more willing to work long hours and sacrifice work/life balance to deliver a product," he told the E-Commerce Times The problem of age discrimination at Silicon Valley companies is compounded by the fact that industry leaders largely hav...

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Defense Department Drifts Toward Commercial Cloud

"That said, the language also states that the compute being provided 'shall support the import and export of workload machine images to enable future hybrid or multivendor infrastructure approaches,' which suggests that DoD is planning for more vendor integration into future versions of Mil-Cloud," Wiedemann told the E-Commerce Times...

Amazon Sets Up New Auto Research Shop

"More and more customers are turning to Amazon for researching products, and we're enabling that experience for vehicles, which is one of the most important, research-intensive purchases in customers' lives," spokesperson Lori Richter told the E-Commerce Times. Advanced Auto...

WhatsApp Shaves Off a Little More Privacy

"That is why many individuals use WhatsApp in the first place," she told the E-Commerce Times "WhatsApp may claim otherwise, but this is really the beginning of the end of privacy through that service," warned Jim Purtilo, associate professor in the computer science department...

Google Cracks Down on Intrusive Mobile Ads

"Accordingly, Google has seen a shift in users performing more searches via mobile," she told the E-Commerce Times. "To retain and grow their mobile search user base, Google has placed an emphasis on user experience," said Zhou, which has led to "the lower ranking of websites...

Verizon Toys With Risky App Revenue Plan

"Despite the deal essentially guaranteeing app downloads, its a pray-and-spray type campaign, because it does not offer specific targeting -- other than U.S. Android users -- nor a guarantee that users will actually engage with or even open the app," Severin told the E-Commerce Times.

Sony Tips PS4 Slim Standard Strategy

"All previous PlayStation consoles have had slim hardware refreshes, and the Xbox One's S version launched just recently and seems to have been received well," he told the E-Commerce Times "Slim editions are mostly about a change in form factor, driven by declining manufacturi...

Russian Gang Suspected of Hacking Oracle’s POS System

"We are aware of the reported breach of Oracle's legacy MICROS systems," Marriott Hotels said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by spokesperson Jeff Flaherty. "We are working closely with Oracle to better understand the situation and whether or not there may be any impact to our guests." ...

Lights Out for Gawker.com

"It is another example showing that sites that bring in a big audience have a lot of value upstream even if they do come with baggage," Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst with the Poynter Institute, told the E-Commerce Times "Gawker came down on the wrong side of journalis...

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