Новости за 15.04.2016

When I think of healthcare, I think of many different things: getting better from a cold or flu, receiving reassurance that I have no serious ailments, or possibly getting relief from allergies. I also think about cost, as a family of four will have numerous uncovered expenses. What I don’t want to know or fear is that my personal information (or that of my family) is not protected to the best extent possible.

The owner of a Web hosting company who claimed to have erased his entire business from the Internet with a single script command appears to have made the whole thing up.

Microsoft's decision to take on the U.S. government's habit of stamping "Secret" on court orders demanding data stored on the company's servers was largely motivated by business concerns, a legal expert said Thursday.

Mitel's planned acquisition of phone and videoconferencing veteran Polycom for nearly $2 billion comes as the enterprise communications industry faces dramatic changes brought by mobility and cloud-based services.

Finding bugs in Web applications is an ongoing challenge, but a new tool from MIT exploits some of the idiosyncrasies in the Ruby on Rails programming framework to quickly uncover new ones.

A group of cybercriminals have combined two powerful malware programs to create a new online banking Trojan that has already stolen millions of dollars from customers of 24 U.S. and Canadian banks.

Apple may be getting ready to rebrand its OS X operating system as MacOS, according to a since-altered page on the Cupertino, Calif. company's website.

Colfax's new Ninja desktops are anything but invisible; these workstations can roar with the unprecedented computing power of Intel's latest 72-core supercomputing chips.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from regulating broadband pricing under its net neutrality rules.

Microsoft fights US federal government over countless secret demands for customer data. Redmond alleges the DoJ and AG is in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution (tl;dr the law is an ass).

At Mobile World Congress a couple of months ago, Samsung and LG dominated the talk about smartphones with product launches that probably rivaled the GDP of some small countries. There were whispers from HTC about something new coming, but the people who were talking didn't know anything and the people who knew anything weren't talking.

After a year-long investigation, the European Commission appears ready to accuse Google of abusing its dominant position in the smartphone OS market.

When Microsoft on Thursday (April 14) sued the U.S. Justice Department demanding more openness about data seizures, it made the case that its customers have the right to know when their data in the cloud is being examined. Retail IT execs need to watch this case very closely, since the massive data stores of merchants are a popular place for law enforcement to snoop. Just like Microsoft, retailers have much to fear from their customers seeing them as government agents.

Intel wants you to know just how real and just how fast its game-changing Optane storage technology is, so it demonstrated how its new pervasive memory technology leaves a conventional NAND SSD in the dust.

The recent announcement of the BlueWolf acquisition by IBM surprised many people in the technology industry, in the same way the announcement of the Cloud Sherpas acquisition by Accenture shocked people back in September 2015.  

Apple has quietly begun developing support for the Google-backed WebRTC standard inside Safari’s WebKit spec, and this is going to be a big deal for any Mac or iOS user – and everybody else, read on for why:

Around three years ago, I was talking with the CIO of a regional hospital about how mobile apps could improve hospital and post-discharge experiences for patients. The conversation came up largely because of the Affordable Care Act, which included new rules to lower Medicare reimbursements to hospitals with high rates of readmissions for people with specific conditions. The goal: Encourage better discharge and follow-up care that would mean healthier patients and lower medical costs. We specifically... Читать дальше...

To say that Verizon will be spending $300 million to install fiber-optic cable in the city of Boston misses the bigger point.

On-call pilot fish is awakened at 2 a.m. one Sunday by a call from the network operations center -- and he figures it's urgent. Why else would the NOC call in the middle of the night on a weekend?

After my last blog, about recent updates to the Flash Player, a reader was nice enough to pass along a tip that I am now passing along to you.

This is turning into an all out cyber-war.

First Apple stood up to the federal government. They refused to compromise the security of iPhone users by creating a backdoor that would give the FBI a way to hack into the phone used in the San Bernadino case. Then, the FBI found a workaround.

Now, Microsoft has sued the U.S. government. The issue is related to how one of the largest and most well-known companies in tech (they have a market capitalization of $443B) has the constitutional... Читать дальше...

The encryption security debate that is the fallout from the FBI-Apple debacle has taken a dangerous — and utterly predictable — turn. Congress has gotten involved, in a most unhelpful way.