Friday, February 6, 2015

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SEC investigates Blackberry deals

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 02:16 AM PST

watchdogWatchdogs  for the US Securities and Exchange Commission are snuffling around the rump of a January 14 spike in trading in BlackBerry options that took place hours before Reuters reported that Samsung Electronics was in talks to buy the Canadian smartphone maker. more»

Radio Shack goes bankrupt

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 02:15 AM PST

1980-radio-shack-catalogAs we predicted, a century after it opened its first store and sent out its first catalogue, RadioShack (RSHC) has declared bankruptcy.

In its final hours it struck a deal to sell up to 2,400 of its approximately 4,000 stores and wireless company Sprint (S) will create a “store within a store” in up to 1,750 of those. more»

Coca-Cola quotes Hitler

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 02:13 AM PST

coca-cola_olympic_games_in_berlin_1936Coca-Cola has been forced to withdraw a Twitter advertising campaign after a counter campaign tricked it into tweeting large chunks of the introduction to Hitler's getting to know you book Mein Kampf.

Marketeers thought that the campaign dubbed "Make it Happy" during the Super Bowl, Coke invited people to reply to negative tweets with the hashtag "#MakeItHappy". more»

Cisco promises partners a sticky end

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 02:12 AM PST

 honey1Cisco Systems executives have been promising their channel partners that its Cisco ONE Software Suite will be stickier than a hive of bees who stuck super glue on their feet and went skating on the honey combs.

Cisco ONE (Open Networking Environment) is a software licensing program that provides flexibility for customers to acquire the latest software for infrastructure. more»

Top encryption software project nearly went under

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 02:11 AM PST

Glens_EnigmaA free email encryption software project which was used by whistleblower Edward Snowden nearly went under this week when the bloke behind it ran out of cash.

Koch’s code is behind most of the popular email encryption programs GPGTools, Enigmail, and GPG4Win.   more»

It’s the internet of everything

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 08:36 AM PST

Internet of ThingsSome call it the internet of things (IoT), some call it the internet of everything (IoE) and some even call it the internet of fangs (IoF). These terms are not, as yet, perfectly defined and there is a complete lack of standards defined, just like in the “cloud” space.   more»

Samsung hangs on to LCD TV lead

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 07:10 AM PST

LCDscreenGiant South Korean chaebol Samsung had 22.8 percent of the LCD TV market last year, outstripping the second Korean player, LG Electronics. A report from Trendforce said Sony came third in place with a market share of only 6.8 percent, compared to LG Electronics' 14.9 percent. more»

US health firm comprehensively hacked

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 07:01 AM PST

Sheffield: CEO of AnthemAn American health insurer appears to have been hacked and lost millions of its customers’ records. Anthem said that hackers stole the identities of customers across all of its business units. It has about 37 million customers in the USA and has reported the attack to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). more»

Swatch gets into the smart watch market

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 06:50 AM PST

Swiss Watches the BrandIf Apple thinks it will have its own way in the smart watch category this year, it had better think again. Swatch is planning to introduce a smart watch in the next three months and it's going to have some advantages over the Apple device. more»

Video drives the mobile data market

Posted: 05 Feb 2015 06:42 AM PST

tvThe age of TV is not over, it's just taken a different shape. IDC estimates that mobile data traffic will show double digit growth in 2015 – by 59 percent. The company said in a report that while faster networks and more affordable 4G handsets are playing their part, the real reason for data growth on this scale is mobile video apps and other streamed content. more»

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