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SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

DDoS Attacks Create Smokescreens for Larceny

"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 Lines Up a Batch of Marshmallow-Ready Hardware

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...

Apple TV May Finally Grab the Spotlight

"The home streaming box remains wide open," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "Apple is as well positioned as ever to try to take the Apple TV product from an iPod-like limited peripheral to an iPad-like app platform for the living room TV," he told Tec...

BQ’s Ubuntu Bows on World Stage

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...

AT&T to DirecTV Customers: Let’s Stick Together

"These offers are really intended to consolidate and defend the existing base of AT&T and DirecTV subscribers -- in other words, the non-cord cutter market," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "Once they've addressed that in the combination, you'll see s...

AT&T to DirecTV Customers: Let’s Stick Together

"These offers are really intended to consolidate and defend the existing base of AT&T and DirecTV subscribers -- in other words, the non-cord cutter market," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "Once they've addressed that in the combination, you'll see s...

AT&T to DirecTV Customers: Let’s Stick Together

"These offers are really intended to consolidate and defend the existing base of AT&T and DirecTV subscribers -- in other words, the non-cord cutter market," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "Once they've addressed that in the combination, you'll see s...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Will LastPass Breach Poison Trust in Password Managers?

"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."

It’s Streaming Time for Showtime

"Apple is quickly separating itself from the field as the platform of choice for premium services," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "As we saw with mobile phones, it's not just about market share," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Android has more phone...

And the Dish Ran Away With T-Mobile?

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...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

No Wrongdoing at NCIS, Says Defense Watchdog

"What we've learned about the intelligence agencies is [that] what the government represents to be the case has turned out not to be true," observed Joel R. Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at the Fordham University School of Law...

Phone Companion App Lets Cortana Get Around

"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’s Clarity Keyboard Puts Auto-Correction in Context

"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...

Comcast Blithely Juggles Its Options

"The mistake in looking at Comcast is thinking they have -- or will have -- a single, unified approach to the market, said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group. Bifurcating the Market ...

Microsoft Offers Devs an Edge

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...

GADGET DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

Gadget Ogling: Dashing Buttons, a Plug-In PC and a Smart Teakettle

I'm going to drop a harsh yet entirely necessary truth right now: Tea is better than coffee. It just is. I enjoy a cup of joe, but there's nothing quite like a relaxing mug of orange pekoe with a splash of milk I drink said beverage at least five times a day, so to have a ket...

Roku Offers Shiny New Streamers

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....

Apple TV Won’t Go Out on 4K Limb

"If true, [Apple's] decision tells us two things," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "First, the useful life of an [Internet set-top box] is not very long -- two to three years, versus seven to 10 for a TV," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The low price ...

YouTube Fiddles With 4K

"It's definitely mainly for hobbyists at the moment," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group It will be necessary to clear other hurdles to watch the videos on a TV.

T-Mobile Sows Seeds of Discontent in SMB Arena

"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...

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