One of the marquee features of the Galaxy S8 is Bixby, Samsung’s response to the Siris, Google Assistants, and Cortanas of the world. Billed as “a new way to interact with your phone,” Samsung has gone so far as to add a dedicated button on the side of the phone to summon its new assistant, and…
Microsoft released its monthly security-patch bundle Tuesday, fixing 45 unique vulnerabilities, three of which are publicly known and targeted by hackers. The top priority this month should be given to the Microsoft Office security update because one of the fixed flaws has been actively exploited by attackers since January to infect computers with malware. Over…
BlackBerry said Wednesday it has been awarded US$815 million in an arbitration decision for excess royalties it had paid to chip company Qualcomm. Qualcomm and BlackBerry had entered into an agreement in April last year to arbitrate a dispute over whether Qualcomm’s agreement to cap certain royalties applied to payments made by BlackBerry under a…
Security professionals are feeling less pressure from management, less pressure to approve IT projects early, and are less worried about emerging technologies, according to a report released this morning. But they are also putting more pressures on themselves. “The pressure is still high,” said Chris Schueler, senior vice president of managed security services at Trustwave…
Dropbox Paper users will now be able to edit their documents offline while using mobile devices, thanks to an update released Tuesday. The change means that people can work on the documents they have stored in the service while on a plane and riding a subway, for example. The feature will allow users of the…
Dallas city officials have added extra encryption and other security measures to the outdoor warning sirens hacked early Saturday. The hack also prompted the city to evaluate critical systems for potential vulnerabilities, City Manager T.C. Broadnax said in a statement late Monday. City officials are reviewing security for financial systems, a flood warning system, police-fire…
Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments. With FortiOS 5.6, the company’s Fortinet Security Fabric gives a view of customers’ public and private clouds – including Amazon Web Services and…
It was another tough quarter for PC shipments, but there was good news for HP, which edged Lenovo to regain the title of world top’s PC maker, according to IDC. Worldwide PC shipments totaled 60.3 million units in the first quarter of 2017, growing by just 0.6 percent compared to the same quarter the previous…
Microsoft today began pushing the latest Windows upgrade, nicknamed “Creators Update,” to customers, via Windows Update. The third such upgrade since Windows 10’s mid-2015 debut, Creators Update will be reaching consumers’ and very small businesses’ PCs, those that make up the bulk of devices hooked up to Windows Update. Microsoft will be busy rolling out…
Hack, Facebook’s PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don’t expect it to rival PHP anytime soon. In this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, Hack cracked the top 50 for the first time, coming in 47th place albeit with a rating of 0.325 percent. Still, showing up on the index means that developers are starting…