The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, January 14
IBM unwraps a new mainframe ... Samsung finally has a Tizen phone ... Valley firms try again to settle lawsuit with workers... and more news
IDG News Service staff | 14 Jan | Read more
IBM unwraps a new mainframe ... Samsung finally has a Tizen phone ... Valley firms try again to settle lawsuit with workers... and more news
IDG News Service staff | 14 Jan | Read more
European ministers want tighter watch on Internet content ... Obama will propose faster reporting of corporate hacks ... Alibaba may buy into India e-commerce... and more news for Monday.
IDG News Service staff | 12 Jan | Read more
The top US telecoms regulator is pulling in the same direction as President Barack Obama ... Samsung’s strategy to capture market share with lower-cost smartphones appears to be cutting into profits ... the FBI is sticking to its story: North Korea was behind the Sony hack -- and more news of the day.
IDG News Service staff | 08 Jan | Read more
The tech industry's center of gravity is still at CES in Las Vegas, where the annual consumer electronics extravaganza officially opens its doors Tuesday.
IDG News Service staff | 06 Jan | Read more
Will 2015 be the year that the "connected home" hyped at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas finally establishes itself in reality?
IDG News Service staff | 06 Jan | Read more
Security experts weigh in on the shortage of cybersecurity workers and what can be done to close the skills gap.
IDG News Service staff | 27 Feb | Read more
Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting.
IDG News Service staff | 14 Jun | Read more
Theresa Grant, director of information security for Dow Chemical, answers readers' questions about outsourcing
IDG News Service staff | 01 Apr | Read more
The proliferation of e-mail viruses — this week's scourge being Bugbear.B — is helping sales of computer security products to outpace the rest of the NZ IT market.
IDG News Service staff | 12 Jun | Read more
The long-awaited replacement to Wi-Fi's weak built-in security algorithm has finally arrived, with several major vendors at the Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas announcing products or plans to support the upgrade.
IDG News Service staff | 02 May | Read more
According to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, US Internet fraud complaints tripled from 16,775 to 48,252 between 2001-2002.
IDG News Service staff | 17 Apr | Read more
The sudden emergence in January of the Slammer worm called attention to the vital role played by Internet monitoring services such as the Internet Storm Center.
IDG News Service staff | 10 Apr | Read more
Jeffrey Bedser, COO of infosec threat-management company ICG, answers readers' cybersecurity questions.
IDG News Service staff | 13 Mar | Read more
As more SAN traffic migrates from the relatively unknown Fibre Channel protocol to the Internet Protocol, it will become vulnerable to the same well-known attacks used against the Internet and corporate networks.
IDG News Service staff | 24 Oct | Read more
The Internet withstood a major attack on its core infrastructure late Monday when all 13 of its root servers were struck.
IDG News Service staff | 24 Oct | Read more