IDG News Service-A court in Mexico has entered a US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo in a breach-of-contract suit over a yellow-pages listing service. The 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City issued the non-final ...
Tags: Yahoo, Mexico court, listing service, breach of contract
IDG News Service-Western Connecticut State University said Thursday that a vulnerability in its computer system present for more than three years may have exposed the data of 233,880 students and other people affiliated with the ...
Tags: vulnerability, Student Data, computer system
IDG News Service-Microsoft is linking malicious software analysts with online advertising fraud experts in an effort to disrupt click fraud,a scam where advertisers pay for worthless clicks. The Microsoft Malware Protection ...
IDG News Service-Lenovo has delayed shipment of the highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2,which will now become available to buyers in December. The 10.1-inch tablet,which comes with Microsoft's Windows 8 and an Intel Atom Z2760 ...
IDG News Service-Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources,using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Amazon Chief Technology ...
IDG News Service-Worldwide server shipments went up in the third quarter of 2012,but revenue from those sales dropped due to economic uncertainty in some parts of the world,research firm Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday. ...
Tags: Server shipments, Server sales, Intel, Oracle, IBM
IDG News Service-A group of hackers leaked email contact information of experts working with the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)after breaking into one of the agency's servers. The group published a list of 167 email addresses ...
Tags: computer systems, computer data, computer, information security
IDG News Service-Companies are not only buying into SaaS(software as a service)more than ever,they are also ripping out legacy on-premises applications and replacing them with SaaS,according to analyst firm Gartner. "In the past 12 ...
Tags: SaaS, legacy apps, Gartner, cut spending
IDG News Service-The Romanian domain names of Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked server in the Netherlands. The hijacking occurred at the DNS(Domain Name ...
Tags: Attackers hijack, hacked server, Netherlands, security breach
IDG News Service-Microsoft's next OS update for Windows Phone 7 handsets won't be available until sometime in 2013. The news,posted on a Microsoft blog Wednesday,led to a stream of frustrated comments from Windows Phone users,complaining ...
Tags: Windows Phone 7.8, next OS, Microsoft blog, Windows Phone 8
IDG News Service-It's the one thing TV makers don't highlight when gushing over the colors,detail and sharpness of pictures on their new higher-than-high-def televisions:How consumers can get suitable content into their homes and then onto ...
Tags: Japan, Sony, 4K TV, HD televisions
IDG News Service - Japan's Sharp, struggling with deep losses and searching for a financial savior, has cut short an early retirement program after being flooded with volunteers. The company said Tuesday that it ended the program after a ...
IDG News Service-Cisco said Sunday it intends to acquire Meraki,a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN,security appliances,and mobile devices for US$1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. The ...
Tags: Cisco, acquire Meraki, wireless LAN, San Francisco
IDG News Service-The initial public offering of Ruckus Wireless on Friday highlighted the growing importance of Wi-Fi in mobile networks as service providers try to meet the demands of smartphone and tablet users. Ruckus,a maker of Wi-Fi ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, smartphone, tablet users, carrier-owned networks
IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
Tags: Ipad Shipments, trademark dispute, tablet market, Android tablets