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Many reviewers have responded to the preproduction version of Microsoft's Surface Book the way an average Joe would view a top-of-the-line luxury car: The features are great, but the price is daunting "Overall, we recommend it, especially to people who value performance, desig...

There are about 5.3 million more pixels to be had in a 5K display, compared to a 4K, but for those who have not yet experienced it, the 4K pixel density is still breathtaking, according to Joe Silverman, owner of New York Computer Help You'll notice the difference if you've ne...

"Until two years ago, DDoS attacks were really seen as just a disruption and annoyance tool," said NeuStar Senior Security Manager Joe Loveless "There's more purpose behind the attacks now than simply to be disruptive," he told TechNewsWorld....

Google appears to have gotten the biometric sensor's placing right, according to Joe Silverman, owner of New York Computer Help, a phone and tablet repair center that specializes in Nexus products "I'm a big fan of the fingerprint reader being on the back of the phone, as that...

The key attraction of the Ubuntu phone is convergence, said Joe Odukoya, product manager for Ubuntu Phone. That's the idea of having a single code base that runs across phone, tablet and desktop "Other platforms have different versions of their code base, depending on the dev...

"In our investigation, we have found no evidence that encrypted user vault data was taken, nor that LastPass user accounts were accessed," CEO and cofounder Joe Siegrist wrote in LastPass' company blog. "The investigation has shown, however, that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised."

The turmoil led Ergen, chairman of Dish, to replace then-CEO Joe Clayton in late March, taking on that role himself to diversify the company into new lines of business Ergen has been eyeing the wireless business for some time; he previously wooed Sprint and Clearwire unsuccess...

"In a multi-device world where you move between your phone, tablet and PC multiple times a day -- you expect your experience to go wherever you do," noted Joe Belfiore, vice president of Microsoft's operating system group. "That's why we built Windows 10 on a common core and ...

"SwiftKey, for a long time, has had context awareness, but it's applied it looking forward," explained SwitfKey's Chief Marketing Officer Joe Braidwood. "It's applied it to thinking what the next word might be or what the current word is, even if you're typing it sloppily, ba...

Microsoft on Wednesday made its new Edge browser, developed under the code name "Project Spartan," available to participants in the Windows Insider Program. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president, operating systems group, made the announcement at the company's Build developers' conference, being held in San Francisco through Friday...

Both groups have been embracing streaming devices and services, but Roku-style boxes often overlap with traditional set-top boxes, according to Joe Ward, CEO of xTV "They look at the cost-benefit ratio -- and then they cut the cords," he told TechNewsWorld....

"This offer will appeal to quite a few small and medium businesses that provide mobile phones for selected employees, usually sales people or others with a need to reach out," said Joe Hoffman, a practice director at ABI Research However, larger enterprises that have disperse...

"Today, passwords are the primary method most of us use to protect our personal information, but they are inconvenient and insecure," noted Microsoft Operating Systems Vice President Joe Belfiore. "They are easily hackable and even when complex they are not effective, but mos...

Jan. 29. Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) file bill authorizing Federal Trade Commission to set nationwide data security standards for companies handling sensitive data, such as full names, Social Security numbers, ID information and credit card information J...

"Finally, IBM has built IT analytics software specifically for the mainframe," observed Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics. It has "addressed specific processor and system architectural limits that forestalled the mainframe from becoming a premier analytics processing engine."

Dec. 9. Head of FBI cyberdivision Joe Demarest, speaking at a cybersecurity conference, says his agency has not confirmed that North Korea was behind data breach Nov. 24 at Sony Pictures Entertainment Dec. 9. Charge Anywhere, which processes point-of-sale transactions, confirm...

"There could be a rise in malware activities that take advantage of the sinking of the pirate ship," Joe Schumacher, senior security consultant at Neohapsis, told the E-Commerce Times Cyberscam sites might impact The Pirate Bay if it should reappear, because "few people would ...

Like numerous other portable Linux distros, 4MLinux uses the JWM desktop. Joe's Window Manager, as in Joe Wingbermuehle, is a very capable lightweight window manager for the X11 Window System JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Its footprint is small enough t...

"For WireLurker to deliver its payload, the user must install untrusted applications on a Mac; for Masque, an iOS user must install an enterprise provisioning profile," said Joe Abbey, director of software engineering at Arxan "In both cases, the user may be incentivized to tr...

"Targeted advertising dollars are incredibly valuable," Joe Hoffman, a practice director at ABI Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "Couple this website tracking with the location data they have, and we are looking at the money-printing machine of tomorrow." It's easy to cros...