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PlayStation Vue Could Put Cable TV in Rear-View Mirror

The price is "too costly to be considered worthwhile," wrote "Joe-TFW." He "can get all but one of the channels listed" while paying less. "The whole point of a streaming system should be to weed out the junk channels no one wants, not force bundle them yet again." PlayStation...

Windows Hello Waves Off Passwords

"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...

Why RadioShack Fell Flat

However, it could be argued that "the maker niche came way too late for RadioShack actually," added Joel Espelien, senior analyst at TheDiffusion Group. "The other side of this is that geeks who used to go to Radio Shack and buy the hardware to build stuff are now just as often playing with software and apps."

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Is the FTC Jumping the Gun on IoT Security?

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...

Wikileaks Steamed Over Google’s Lengthy Silence on FBI Snooping

"It's very surprising to me," said Joel R. Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham University School of Law. "The length of time that has elapsed between the subpoena and the disclosure to WikiLeaks of the subpoena's exist...

IBM’s z13 Emerges From Mainframe Fountain of Youth

"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."

Docker Security Questioned

"Its security is not that bad, but it lacks secure management," Gartner Security and Risk Management Research Director Joerg Fritsch told LinuxInsider "Containers managed by Docker are effective in resource isolation," he wrote in a report on Docker security released last mont...

Data Breach Law Tops Obama Privacy Initiatives

"A federal statute is warranted and would be helpful to harmonize our standards," said Joel R. Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at the Fordham University School of Law "If some watered down proposal is offered that preempts the...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

FIDO Pursues Vision of a Password-Free World

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...

Good, Bad and Ugly ‘Pirate Bays’ Spring Up in Torrent World

"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 ...

LINUX PICKS AND PANS

4MLinux Is So Lightweight It’s Anemic

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 writ...

Researchers Shine Spotlight on OS X/iOS Masque Attack

"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...

Verizon, AT&T Are Watching You

"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...

Verizon, AT&T Are Watching You

"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...

Verizon, AT&T Are Watching You

"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...

OPINION

Defining a Hero: Why It Matters That Apple’s CEO Is Gay

Eric Schmidt over at Google has an infamous open marriage and a foot-in-mouth problem that would make Joe Biden proud. He is no longer CEO, though, and as chairman he has simply become a traveling embarrassment that Google seems to ignore these days. About the time his proclivities became visible also was about the time the board thought Google would be better off with someone else running it. ...

Look, Ma! No Hands… Crunch!

"We're in the midst of rerunning the tests using 2015 vehicles, but that's an ongoing thing," said Joel Cooper, assistant professor of psychology at Utah U and a member of Strayer's team What the Studies Found...

Ellison Hands One Rein to Catz, the Other to Hurd

"On its surface, the recent Oracle power-sharing deal sounds crazy," said Joel Trammell, CEO of Khorus and author of The CEO Tightrope. "These sharing arrangements almost never work, as it typically adds confusion and slows down decision making," he told the E-Commerce Times....

The Importance of Openness to the Internet of Things

With new devices proliferating, it is time to take a different approach. Defense in depth is the only way to fully secure the IoT, Joerg Hirschmann, CTO of NCP Engineering, told LinuxInsider "Defense in depth for the IoT includes implementing technologies such as VPNs -- virtu...

TiVo Mega Unabashedly Flaunts Its Enormity

"More than 95 percent of DVRed content is consumed within 30 days," Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The average person watches 160 hours of TV a month. You do the math. Five thousand hours doesn't make a lot of sense. We already have a service for people who want thousands of hours of content available on demand. It's called 'Netflix.'" ...

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