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Monday, May 5, 2014
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As the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks increase, system defenders in the trenches are losing confidence in their ability to protect their organizations' information assets, suggests a survey released last week by Websense and the Ponemon Institute. The survey of almost 5,000 global IT security pros found that 57 percent felt their organizations were unprotected from sophisticated cyberattacks and 63 percent doubted they could stop the exfiltration of confidential information from their systems.


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Nokia has created a $100 million fund earmarked for investing in firms that specialize in connected and smart vehicles. The move comes days after the Finnish firm forked over its handset unit to Microsoft. Nokia already has a mapping-and-location company called "Here." The new fund will be designed to support the growth of the ecosystem around Here's mapping and location products and services, the company said. Nokia is far from the only tech outfit hopping on-board with cars.


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With its Fire TV platform, Amazon is making a major push for the living room. One of the advantages for developers is that Amazon is using A...

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When Microsoft included Windows XP in the Internet Explorer zero-day browser vulnerability patch it issued this week, some industry observers were stunned. Had the company decided to backtrack on its assertion that it would no longer support XP? Had it knuckled under to user protests? Not really. Redmond has not decided to backtrack on killing support for Windows XP; it made an exception this time, because the vulnerability was discovered so close to Microsoft's ending support for XP, wrote Adrienne Hall, general manager of trustworthy computing.


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Google and Microsoft are positioned against each other as primary competitors, and that could mean trouble. I remember past dynamics similar to theirs that didn't end well for either company. Apple focused on IBM and didn't see Microsoft coming. Microsoft focused on AOL and didn't see the Internet coming. Intel focused on AMD and missed Transmeta and ARM. Microsoft and Apple focused on each other and were blindsided by Google. Now Microsoft and Google are focusing on each other, which likely will lead both to ignore the risk Amazon represents.


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Google and Microsoft are positioned against each other as primary competitors, and that could mean trouble. I remember past dynamics simil...

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Mobile ad targeting company UberMedia is announcing that it has raised $8 million in new funding. UberMedia first became known for creating ...

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Sunday, May 4, 2014
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Snapchat built its popularity on pictures that disappear, but new features added to the latest version of the program shows its creators want it to be more than a one-trick app. Both text and video chatting on Thursday became available in the mobile app for Android and iOS devices. "Until today, we felt that Snapchat was missing an important part of conversation: presence," reads the company blog. "There's nothing like knowing you have the full attention of your friend while you're chatting."


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Snapchat built its popularity on pictures that disappear, but new features added to the latest version of the program shows its creators w...

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