Your Desk Phone May be Spying on You
A year ago two Columbia University Intrusion detection Systems Lab PhD candidates, Ang Cui and Michael Costello, demonstrated a method of hijacking HP printers by sending the printer a print job with a specific…
SecureEnvoy Teams Up with PasswordBank for Better Cloud Services
By Isha Suri
SecureEnvoy has joined hands with PasswordBank to allow users access multiple cloud services at the same time using their mobile phones. This collaboration will help users access cloud services such as Google Apps, Office365,…
Hounded to Death: Did Prosecutors Abuse Cybercrime Laws in Swartz Case?
It would have been impossible not to witness the outpouring of grief, anger and suspicion that consumed the internet since last weekend. The untimely death of Reddit co-founder, internet activist and all-round computer genius…
Breaking Analysis: Death of the Video Game Console? Don’t Believe the Hype
CNBC, along with NPD, reported Friday that the video game industry took a hit in 2012, saying that sales fell 26 percent while console sales declined by 20 percent. So is the death of…
Hal Abelson Appointed by MIT President to Investigate University’s Role in Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
By Kyt Dotson
Over the weekend the Internet lost one of its most amazing guiding lights: Aaron Swartz—an early developer of the ever-popular Reddit, did significant work with XML, and even co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification that…
A Look Back at HP’s Recent PC Strategy + Payoffs
At CES last week we got a chance to see exactly what’s behind the buzz in mobile: every major manufacturer launched at least one smartphone, tablet, phablet or some other mobile device with its…
Will Facebook Launch a Phone or iPad Messenger App at Tomorrow’s Big Event?
Facebook is to hosting its fourth quarter earnings call in a couple of weeks, but before we find out if their market position has improved much since their dismal IPO launch, they’ve invited the…
Kaspersky Unearths “Red October” Cyber Espionage Campaign
Security chiefs at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered evidence of yet more cyber espionage, targeting dozens of governments, businesses, political groups, and other organizations. Kaspersky said that the discovery was made following an exhaustive five-year…
What’s a Leaner Nokia Look Like, and Where’s its Balance for R&D and Marketing?
By Saroj Kar
The smartphone market has changed radically in the last few years with the advent of Android-based phones and Apple’s iPhone. The entirety of the mobile ecosystem, once dominated by Nokia, underwent a fundamental realignment…
Amazon, the 700-Pound Gorilla of Cloud, Redefines the Online Services Market
Ed. note: This is the first in a three-part series drawn from a major report on Amazon AWS by Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante. The next section will look at how other…