Blackstone Group has reportedly sent a preliminary counterbid to buy out Dell, which would rival the current proposed offer of US$24.4 billion from Silver Lake Partners and Michael Dell made in early February. Blackstone, an equity firm, ...
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Adobe today patched Flash Player, the fifth time this year it's updated the vulnerability-plagued software. Unlike two of the three updates last month, however, today's was part of Adobe's regularly-scheduled patch cadence. Last ...
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) is inviting applications for the “ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013." The closing date for receipt of applications is March 31, 2013. A team of six judges handles the ...
A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 25 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website. Matthew Keys, who according to his ...
Tags: Tribune, Anonymous Hack, company news
At 2:46 Monday afternoon, Japan went quiet. In memory of the lives lost two years ago in the earthquake that struck at that hour and the tsunamis that followed, a moment of silence was held across the country. From government buildings to ...
Tags: Quake, Japan, Connecting Online
Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. GhostPost is giving ...
Tags: Southwest Interactive, Twitter, FourSquare
Analysts say the proposal for internet users to delete their online data and become invisible online could create a black hole in the web economy. Tineka Smith reports. Last year the European Commission announced proposals for the 'right ...
Tags: internet, web economy, cyber security
Driving off a dealer's lot in a shiny new car can be exhilarating, but the hours you might spend haggling to get to that point can be about as pleasant as a tax audit. Buyers tell us they often feel manipulated by sales staff. Or they worry ...
Tags: new car, car buying, car industry
Solving the ‘online fit’ problem became easier for clothing retailers with the launch of Fits.me’s all-new virtual fitting room and its brand new Fit Advisor size recommendation engine. The new version of the Fits.me ...
The founder of hacking group Lulzsec, Sabu, has had his sentence postponed in order to continue working with the FBI. Sabu - real name Hector Xavier Monsegur - encouraged Lulzsec members to hack websites including those of the CIA, ...
European Commission spokesman John Clancy confirmed that all the PV products imported from China should register, reported Bloomberg. Some diplomatic officers released anonymous to the media. Some of the EU members had signed an agreement ...
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Microsoft is wielding the big stick of dramatically higher custom support costs as it pushes enterprises to abandon the 11-year-old Windows XP, an analyst said today. Custom support plans, which Microsoft negotiates on a ...
A new report traces a large cybersecurity threat group to China's People's Liberation Army, specifically a unit that goes under the cover name "Unit 61398." Security company Mandiant said in a report released Tuesday that an Advanced ...
Tags: Report, Cyberspying Group, China's Army
China has strenuously denied claims it has stolen data from US companies in a series of planned cyber attacks, and counter-claimed that it has suffered attacks originating in the US. Earlier this week, Madiant Corp, a US-based security ...
Tags: cyber attacks, Google, computers
CBR talked with Chris Mathews, CTO at SysMech about the European Commission's proposal to give consumers the right to be forgotten online and how it will affect any company that deals with data. The European Commission's proposal to allow ...
Tags: data industry, internet, Google