Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. Groups opposed ...
McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrating it with its security information and event management (SIEM) product to automatically ...
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has begun installing sensors to track anything that costs more than $50. The sensors, which will number in the millions, will be used to manage medical equipment, supplies, specimens and implants -- ...
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The company formerly known as RIM delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic BlackBerry product line, but BlackBerry devices still face an uphill battle against Apple's iPhone and myriad smartphones based on ...
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Xactware and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) have signed an agreement to launch AER Benchmark for XactAnalysis, the comprehensive address-specific hail and lightning history database. AER Business Solutions senior vice ...
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Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan ...
Salesforce.com has quietly acquired a startup called EntropySoft, a maker of content management and integration software, in a move likely meant to bolster Salesforce.com's Chatterbox service. The acquisition was first reported late ...
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Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
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President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, elicited guarded praise from several quarters even as it revived calls for more comprehensive bipartisan legislation to ...
The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded ...
Computerworld - Amid a flurry of news surrounding the Watson supercomputer, IBM this week released major upgrades to three enterprise storage products, including a self-service software portal for end users. The Log in screen for the ...
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Twitter will soon give developers the ability to filter messages by popularity and language. The company said in a blog posting Wednesday that it will add two new fields to the public metadata it associates with messages on its service, ...
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Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, announced the company has been named one of the leading vendors of point of sale (POS) software, ...
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This London Fashion Week, starting 15th February 2013, the British Fashion Council (BFC) continues to unite fashion and digital innovation, encouraging engagement with the global fashion showcase through social media, live streaming and ...