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Dish Network this week chalked up another victory in the courts for its Hopper digital video recording service An appeals court rejected a bid from Fox Broadcasting Company to disallow some features in the Hopper platform, namely the place-shifting capabilities of Dish Anywhere and Hopper Transfers.

The Gameover botnet is back -- more or less -- only six weeks or so after the United States Department of Justice announced that an FBI-led multinational effort had disrupted it Still, the botnet's downtime was longer than expected -- the UK's National Crime Agency had warned that the people running it would regain control within two weeks....

The news that Apple and IBM have joined forces sent a shockwavethrough the Apple-focused world this week, and I admit it, I wassurprised. At first glance, the deal seems to be this big group hugwith the two companies becoming inextricably entwined Yeah, it's not that....

Why do so many companies keep slapping their customers in the face and expect them to stick around? Remember the good old days, when an update or an upgrade was good news? It solved problems. Today, updates often create new problems in their wake. Today, updates are two steps forward and one step back. Updates and upgrades used to be welcome news....

It's general practice to have multiple sales forecasts, and that typically means low and upside potential as well as what's committed -- but the idea of teasing those threads apart only at forecasting time might be old school and no longer applicable. Long before you compile a forecast, you have a good idea of which deals might be prone to a typi...

Chinese company Wico has cloned the yet-to-be-released iPhone 6, if videos posted by 86Digi can be believed One video provides a detailed view of the clone: ...

Novartis' Alcon eye care division has entered an in-license agreement governing all ocular medical uses for Google's smart contact lenses, it announced Tuesday Google unveiled a prototype of its glucose-monitoring lens in January....

Apple and IBM have teamed up on enterprise mobility in an exclusive partnership that will create iPhone and iPad business apps incorporating IBM's Big Data and analytics capabilities, they announced Tuesday "Mobility has been very much a catch-as-catch-can solution in most businesses," noted Yankee Group Research Vice President Carl Howe, with ente...

A supply chain compromise is a security pro's worst nightmare. The thought of malware being planted on computer devices before they leave the factory sends shivers down a cyberdefender's spine. A disturbing case of such poisoning was reported last week by researchers at TrapX The researchers found advanced persistent threat malware, which TrapX has...

The hottest crowdsourced hit of the summer is the Coolest Cooler, an unassuming party cooler that features a built-in ice-crushing blender, a removable waterproof Bluetooth speaker, a USBcharger, an LED lid light, a gear tie down, super wide wheels fordragging it over sand, a bottle opener, integrated storagefor plates, a divider to help keep your margarita ice separatefrom your sandwiches, and a rust-proof ceramic knife built right intothe lid...

Everyone's well aware that the explosive growth of data is one of the biggest challenges facing organizations of all sizes across nearly every industry. A growing number of cloud service providers (CSPs) are recognizing that they can provide more than just simple storage and economical compute power to their customers who are buried in data. They also can help them manage their Big Data processing needs on an ongoing basis...

KaOS is an interesting and very efficient Linux distribution built around a refined KDE desktop environment. The KDE integration is much more controlled in KaOS than in other Linux choices. The latest release for this 14-month young Linux distro came in late June....

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may launch a massive round of layoffs, possibly as early as this week. Some details are still being worked out, unidentified sources with knowledge of the company's plans told Bloomberg Layoffs have been widely expected since Microsoft purchased Nokia, and Nadella's recent memo to Microsoft employees was viewed as a hint...

Google on Tuesday announced Project Zero, an effort to speed up the security bug-fixing process. A team of cybersecurity experts will go after vulnerabilities in any and all software, notify the vendors, and then file bug reports in a public database so users can track the issuance of patches The Project Zero team has promised to send bug reports t...

A trade association including Amazon, Google and Netflix on Monday called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules banning deals by broadband providers for faster delivery of some Internet traffic The Internet Association, in written testimony submitted to the FCC, called for simple "light touch" rules to ensure an open and neut...

It's a given that hackers can and do penetrate websites with laughable ease, ranging from those of retailers to those of the United States government. It certainly doesn't help the security-minded to know that the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries' spy agencies, including the UK's GCHQ and the West German intelligence agency, are t...

There's no shortage of utopian visions in the IT industry, but the journey to cloud computing that some folks espouse makes the trip to Shangri-La look like a simple walk in the park. Why so? Because, like it or not, even in the best circumstances businesses must continue to support legacy applications and systems while they are adopting next-gen technologies.

Salesforce.com will shell out US$350 million in common stock for relationship intelligence firm RelateIQ in a deal expected to close by October It will provide another $40 million dollars in stock for RelateIQ's cash balance....

Blockbuster fighting game series Super Smash Bros. is expanding its ranks with the addition of three new characters to its upcoming installment The fourth title in the series will continue the tradition of pitting characters from a string of Nintendo franchises against each other in battle arenas....

Sprint last week unveiled a mobile hotspot designed to satisfy all the wireless needs of a consumer in one 4.7 x 4.7-inch device Sprint LivePro, which went on sale Friday, is a multifunctional device that acts as both a mobile hotspot and a mini projector. Users connect via Sprint's 4G LTE Spark network -- the company's enhanced LTE service that la...