Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
One well-known gang of hackers contributed to cyberattacks on South Korea on Tuesday, which coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War, according to analysis from Symantec. The attacks on Tuesday disabled websites, ...
Tags: Cyberattacks, South Korea, Symantec
Microsoft is seeking permission to disclose "aggregate statistics" about the number of requests for data it receives under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, following a similar move by Google earlier this month. FISA has ...
As the mercury rises, so increases the desire to reach for an ice-cold Coke. But what if that Coke literally came ice-cold? In Colombia, it does, with Beachside Cokes being served in bottles made from ice. The frozen vessels are true to ...
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Lite-On Technology held its 2013 annual general meeting on June 19, during which the shareholders approved Lite-On's results in 2012 and distribution of a NT$2.4 dividend per common share. Of that sum, the cash and stock dividend portions ...
Tags: Lite-On Technology, Dividend Policy, LED, Electrical, Electronics
British spy agency GCHQ is tapping global internet traffic and phone calls, processing information from around the world which it is sharing with its opposite number in the US, the National Security Agency (NSA). That is the latest ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Microsoft is close to another restructuring that could see several senior managers moved sideways or leaving the company as it reduces its number of business units from eight to four. The restructuring is being prepared by a small group ...
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Microsoft is set to invest almost $700m (£455m) in a new data centre to support cloud-based services offered by its upcoming Xbox One games console and Office 365. Known as ‘Project Mountain', the data centre will be based in ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox One, Cloud-Based Services, Office 365
Lite-On Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$216.05 billion (US$7.2 billion) for 2012 with net profits of NT$7.53 billion, an on-year growth of 4%. The firm plans to deal out a 2012 cash dividend of NT$2.35 and stock dividend ...
Tags: Lite-on Technology, Lighting, Cash Dividend
More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen, the company shepherding the open source ...
Tags: Rackspace, MongoDB Service, Data Store
Linux developers were once just that, developers. But their role is changing says the Linux Foundation, which is expanding its training options to help them. The foundation, an industry supported non-profit, has added two courses to its ...
WellStar Health System is set to install Capsule Tech's DataCaptor software across its five-hospital system in Marietta, Georgia, US. Initially focusing on the surgical settings, the DataCaptor will capture the physiological data directly ...
The demise of Google Reader means millions in potential revenue for companies that have stepped up to replace the RSS service, according to a just-published survey. Half of the users polled by SurveyMonkey, which conducted a survey in ...
Tags: Google Reader, RSS Service
Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue was flat at $10.9 billion, while profits rose 10% $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions and "engineered systems" like Exadata. But ...