BlackBerry on Tuesday announced a new line of business to provide developers with a secure, cloud-based, mobile communications platform for texting, voice, video and file sharing. Developers can insert these capabilities into their existing custom apps and services using the new BBM Enterprise SDK (software developer kit), BlackBerry said. The SDK will be sold as…
Microsoft’s program allowing potential customers to try a Surface Hub for 30 days before buying it will start on Feb. 15. The try-and-buy program is available only through Surface Hub resellers in North America, Asia, and Europe. A list of resellers can be found on Microsoft’s website. The Surface Hub is a gigantic Windows 10…
Max Schrems’ 2013 complaint to the Irish data protection commissioner over Facebook’s handling of his personal information put him in an unusual position on Tuesday: He’s a co-defendant, alongside Facebook, in a case before the High Court of Ireland. The case concerns the standard contract clauses that Facebook and other companies relied on to legalize…
Companies building applications that leverage speech recognition have a new machine-learning based tool to improve their work. Microsoft is opening the public beta for its Custom Speech Service, the company said Tuesday. The service, formerly known as CRIS, allows customers to train a speech recognition system to work in a specific scenario, allowing it to…
Democratic senators have promised to fight any move by President Donald Trump’s administration to gut the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules. Any moves by Trump or the Republican-controlled FCC to roll back the 2015 regulations will meet stiff resistance from Democratic lawmakers and digital rights groups, the five senators said during a press conference…
Every few months, it seems like Twitter execs swear that the company will do a better job at shutting down abusive trolls. And yet, hate and harassment continue to plague the platform, making it impossible for some high-profile users to remain active. This week, Twitter is making three changes to ramp up its efforts, and…
The discovery of malware on computers and servers of several Polish banks has put the country’s financial sector on alert over potential compromises. Polish media reported last week that the IT security teams at many Polish banks have been busy recently searching their systems for a particular strain of malware after several unnamed banks found…
According to a report released last week by Javelin, card-not-present fraud went up 40 percent this year, but according to a new report from Visa, there has been no increase in online fraud. The increase in card-not-present fraud was part of a general increase in fraud, reported Javelin. “We’ve been measuring fraud for over a…
If this year is anything like last we are in the midst of phishers’ attempts to trick taxpayers, employers and tax preparers into giving up information that will allow attackers to file bogus tax returns and collect IRS refunds, according to PhishLabs’ annual phishing report. The latest Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report, which has data…
A piece of silicon less than three inches across may speed up the arrival of 5G mobile networks in the next few years. IBM Research and Ericsson have developed a compact antenna array that can aim high-frequency radio signals at mobile devices and shoot them farther than they otherwise could reach, the companies said. Silicon…