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Skype’s “Project Chess” Allegedly Lets NSA Snoop On Your Calls
Despite its repeated denials over PRISM, Skype has apparently been looking at ways it can facilitate government access to its VoIP calling service for at least five years. According to the New York Times, Skype has been running a clandestine program known as Project Chess since 2008, during the time when its chief backer was ...
LeaseWeb Hits Back At Kim Dotcom Over Megaupload Deletion
Kim Dotcom was acting up again yesterday, screaming blue murder over the fact that LeaseWeb, one of Megaupload’s former hosting providers, had apparently deleted “petabytes of data” belonging to users of the now defunct storage service. According to Dotcom, LeaseWeb’s decision amounted to the “largest data massacre in the history of the internet,” and was ...
Microsoft Raises The White Flag Over Xbox One Policies
Faced with a storm of protest from angry gamers, Microsoft has just announced a complete U-turn on its polices for its upcoming Xbox One console, meaning that game-sharing and offline game play will now be allowed. Writing on the Xbox Wire blog, Microsoft’s president of interactive entertainment Don Mattrick said that the company had listened ...
GE’s Unassailable Lead in the Industrial Internet
As if yesterday’s announcement that it’s building a new Industrial Big Data platform and expanding its partnerships with Accenture, Pivotal and Amazon Web Services wasn’t enough, GE is planning on hiring “thousands of engineers” in the second phase of what amounts to nothing less than an Industrial Internet “land grab”. GE’s multi-billion dollar push to ...
Would You Give Up More Privacy For Free Wi-FI? Facebook Thinks You Will
Now that we know about the NSA and PRISM, would you be willing to give up even more information about yourself to one of the spy program’s alleged participants, in return for free Wi-Fi? Facebook is gambling that your answer will be a resounding “yes please.” According to a report in Wired, Facebook has apparently ...
Canonical Forms Carrier Group to Shape Ubuntu for Mobile OS
Ubuntu for smartphones looks beautiful, but it’s going to have a tough fight on its hands to gain a foothold on a mobile market that’s completely and utterly dominated by Android and Google. To be honest, at this point in time with absolutely zero market share, even catching the likes of Blackberry and Windows Phone ...
Google Challenges FISA Gag Order To Protect Its Reputation
Google has just issued a legal challenge to the secret FISA court over its gag order that prevents it from being upfront with its customers over how many government data requests it receives. The company cites the First Amendment and the “right to free speech” as justification for its challenge, saying that “greater transparency is ...
GE Makes Industrial Internet Land Grab with AWS, Accenture + Pivotal
Looking to capitalize on the launch of its new “Predictivity” Big Data and analytics platform for the Industrial Internet, GE has outlined a number of expanded partnerships with companies at the cutting edge of Big Data, including Accenture, Pivotal and Amazon Web Services. By leveraging these new partnerships, GE aims to position itself as a ...
Snowden & Obama Muddy the Waters Over PRISM Access
Ed Snowden might be holed up in some Hong Kong hideaway at the moment, but that doesn’t mean he has to shut himself away from the world altogether. On the contrary, Snowden was keen to dispel some of the criticisms he’d received, as well as the denials from certain tech companies over the last few ...
Microsoft Tempts Schools with $199 Surface RT Discount Price Offer
School’s out for the summer, and that means that it’s the perfect time to start thinking ahead to next year, especially if you happen to be involved with budgeting for a school district. It also just so happens to be the perfect time to make a move if you’re pushing to get your computer hardware ...