NEC aims at Big Data 'sweet spot' with new SAP Hana tool

Cloud computing and SAP's Hana in-memory database can be a powerful combination for data analysis, and new tools could help to make sure it doesn't fall down on the job. On Friday, NEC released a tool designed to make life easier for data analysts by...

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MIT randomizes tasks to speed massive multicore processors

As each new generation of computer processors arrives with a larger number of computing cores, computer scientists grapple with how best to make use of this proliferation of parallel power. Now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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Google Now adds data from Lyft, Airbnb and many more apps

Google Now just got a lot smarter, adding data from dozens of outside apps to help people get more things done as they go about their day. Google Now is a search tool and digital assistant built into Android devices and the Chrome browser, and included...

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Nvidia employee retracts comments about planned GTX 970 driver to improve memory allocation performance

Important update 1/29/15: The Nvidia employee who said the company was looking into a GTX 970 driver that would "tune what's allocated where to further improve performance" has updated his post to remove the claim after it was covered by several...

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Facebook tests delivering tips about your location

Facebook is getting closer to territory occupied by Yelp and Foursquare by testing a new service that will provide users with recommendations about places they are at. Starting Thursday, some users of Facebook on iPhone in New York will find a new feature,...

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VPN providers play 'cat-and-mouse' with China's growing censorship

Amit Bareket calls it a "cat-and-mouse" game. In this instance, his company is the mouse, and the Chinese government is a giant cat. The two sides are continually at odds, because Bareket's company, SaferVPN, is one of many that provide software tools...

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Congo restores Internet to banks, gov't agencies but public block remains

Internet service has been restored to government agencies and banks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but otherwise a government shutdown of email, social media and mobile phone services, ordered on Jan. 19, remains in effect. The DRC government...

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Samsung smartphone business sees profit slide, some hopes in DRAM

Samsung Electronics' operating profit in its mobile business slid 64 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, the result largely of competition in the Chinese market where it struggles against rising brands like Xiaomi. The South Korean company sold 95...

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US targets mobile operator for deceptive data promises

TracFone Wireless, the largest prepaid mobile provider in the U.S., has agreed to refund US$40 million to customers to settle charges that it throttled bandwidth or cut off consumer data connections, despite promising "unlimited" data service as a marketing...

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Facebook, Instagram temporarily down in many countries

Facebook and Instagram were down temporarily late Monday, suggesting that common infrastructure used by these services was hit. "We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience," Instagram said in a...

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Internet problems take out Facebook, Instagram, others; Lizard Squad takes credit

Unexplained outages took down a number of popular Internet services Monday night, including Facebook, Instagram, HipChat, and possibly others. Notorious hacker group The Lizard Squad took credit. Users promptly took to Twitter—whose Web site also seemed...

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China signals censors will continue to crack down on VPN services

China has defended its growing attempts to control the Internet, after disrupting several services that allowed users to view the Web free of censorship. "As the Internet develops, and new circumstances arise, we will take new regulatory measures to...

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Coinbase set to launch licensed Bitcoin exchange in the US

Bitcoin wallet provider Coinbase will launch the first U.S. licensed exchange for the digital currency on Monday, according to a Wall Street Journal report. While pointing to a "Lunar" teaser website with a clock counting down to 9 a.m. Eastern Time...

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Walmart's $25 Vudu Spark streaming stick is now available to the masses

Media streaming sticks like the Google Chromecast and Amazon Fire TV have some more company. GigaOm reports that Walmart is now selling its Vudu Spark media streaming dongle through its online store and "select Walmart locations." The Vudu Spark, like...

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Malaysia Airlines attacked, big data dump threatened

The Malaysia Airlines website has been attacked and the Lizard Squad, one of the groups that claimed responsibility on Monday, threatened to soon "dump some loot" found on the airline's servers. The airline said in a statement on its Facebook page that...

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Here's the Windows 10 preview user forum on Microsoft's site

Microsoft's engineers want to know what consumers think about Windows 10. Really they do. The company just announced a slew of new features at an event on Wednesday. On Friday morning, a new version of the preview build dropped. And now, the forum for...

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NIST pledges transparency in NSA dealings over crypto standards

A U.S. agency that develops widely used standards for encryption has pledged to be more transparent about its dealings with the National Security Agency, amid concerns the NSA undermined those standards to boost its surveillance efforts. The National...

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North Carolina could be next in Google Fiber roll-out

Two cities in North Carolina could be the first to benefit from a planned expansion of Google's fiber-optic Internet service. The company is holding events in Raleigh and Durham on Wednesday and Thursday next week, apparently to announce selection of...

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Twitter 'recap' helps you catch up with missed tweets

The next time you are too busy to access your Twitter feed or have a bad Internet connection, the social network will help you get updated with a quick recap of the key tweets you have missed. On Wednesday, Twitter introduced to the home timeline a...

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Fujitsu psychology tool profiles users at risk of cyberattacks

Fujitsu wants to make computer security more personalized with profiling software based on psychology. The manufacturer's Fujitsu Laboratories is developing an enterprise tool that can identify and advise people who are more vulnerable to cyberattacks,...

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BlackBerry wants to mandate app developers to make apps for its platform

BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants net neutrality to extend to content and applications, so that developers of apps for Android and iOS will be mandated to develop on the BlackBerry platform as well. Not all content and app providers have embraced openness...

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Dish found not to infringe Fox's copyright by letting users stream programs

A federal court in California has ruled that Dish Network did not infringe the copyright of Fox Broadcasting by offering users services for skipping ads and streaming live or recorded programming over the Internet to their computers and mobile devices....

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Obama promises to promote net neutrality, broadband

U.S. President Barack Obama promised to push for net neutrality rules and for more transparency in the government's surveillance programs during his State of the Union address late Tuesday. In a speech largely focused on the U.S. economy and aiding...

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Don't blame sharks for Asian Internet problems, experts say

It may not be Shark Week, but don't tell that to people in Vietnam. Internet connections in the South East Asian nation have been affected by problems with the Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable system for the fourth time in a year, according...

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Microsoft's Outlook.com faces brief man-in-the-middle attack in China

Microsoft's Outlook.com briefly faced a "man-in-the-middle" attack in China, according to a watchdog group, following similar eavesdropping attempts against Apple and Yahoo last year. The group, GreatFire.org, noticed the attack against Outlook on Saturday...

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Google may invest in SpaceX for Internet through satellites

Google may invest about US$1 billion in SpaceX, a company that aims to use satellites to deliver low-cost Internet to underserved regions of the earth, according to reports. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft. It bagged...

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Twitter to acquire Indian startup ZipDial in emerging markets play

Twitter is to acquire ZipDial Mobile Solutions, a Bangalore company that has developed a platform that allows content like promotions to be delivered to users through voice, SMS or an app notification when an user gives a missed call. The technology...

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Uber woos European cities with the promise of 50,000 new jobs in 2015

Uber Technologies has promised 50,000 new jobs in Europe from its service in 2015 alone, in an overture to get more cities on the continent to approve its ride-hailing service. "We want to make 2015 the year where we establish a new partnership with...

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Report: Inside North Korea's network, NSA saw signs of Sony attack

The U.S. National Security Agency has had a secret foothold for years in North Korea's networks and saw signs of the Sony Pictures Entertainment attack but only in retrospect grasped its reach and depth, The New York Times reported Sunday. The spy agency...

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Opponent of Apple, Google settlement with workers wants larger cut in new deal

Michael Devine, who helped sink an earlier settlement between tech companies and workers in a lawsuit over an alleged conspiracy to prevent poaching of staff, has supported a new settlement proposed last week. But Devine, a former Adobe Systems engineer,...

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Scary Steam for Linux bug erases all the personal files on your PC

If you're a Steam fan running Linux, the last thing you'll want to do in the next few days is mess with your Steam files. Users on Valve's GitHub Steam for Linux page are complaining about a nasty bug that has the potential to wipe out every single personal...

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