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Yahoo discloses user data requests from US law enforcement agencies
Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and General...
pcworld.com (40 minutes ago)
Medicare thrown into chaos by outage
A BUNGLED computer upgrade has crippled Medicare’s systems leaving its offices to cope with the chaos of the national outage.
news.com.au (1 hour ago)
AMD slates first ARM server chip, 'Seattle,' for 2014
AMD plans to sample its first ARM-based processors for servers early next year, alongside paired CPUs and integrated graphics cores in an attempt to oust Intel's Xeon from its dominance in the server market. Specifically, AMD's ARM core will be code-named "Seattle," and will ship in volume during the second half of...
pcworld.com (2 hours ago)
AMD reboots server strategy with first ARM chips
Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and more powerful than its existing low-power x86 server processors. AMD on Tuesday...
pcworld.com (2 hours ago)
Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis
The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. The alliance was set up in 2010 to provide a collective voice for enterprise customers, who use their...
pcworld.com (3 hours ago)
Facebook pokes its users into signing up as organ donors
A Facebook campaign to increase organ donors was so successful that on its opening day it led to a 21-fold rise...
thetimes.co.uk (3 hours ago)
NewsGator's SharePoint add-on tries to filter, reduce enterprise social noise
NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user. The overall goal is to make it easier for Social Sites users to stay engaged with work tasks, information...
pcworld.com (4 hours ago)
Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire over takeover plan
Sprint Nextel sued Clearwire and Dish Network on Monday in a bid to block Dish from taking over Clearwire, Sprint's majority-owned network partner. Dish and Sprint have been in a bidding war over Clearwire, which Sprint also plans to buy, and last week Clearwire's board recommended shareholders accept Dish's offer....
pcworld.com (5 hours ago)
How Apple shook up the electronic book market
Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself. "We're not willing to lose money in any business," Cue told the court, referring to...
pcworld.com (5 hours ago)
Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says
Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Annual sales of storage capacity will grow by more than 30 percent every year between 2013 and 2017, according to...
pcworld.com (5 hours ago)
Rambus, STMicroelectronics settle lawsuits, sign patent agreement
Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements. After years of litigation, Rambus and STMicroelectronics said Monday they had signed an agreement that settled all their legal disputes. The agreement came just a few days after Rambus settled a 13-year-old...
pcworld.com (8 hours ago)
Microsoft kills linked accounts in Outlook.com
Microsoft said Monday that it is eliminating the ability to link accounts within Outlook.com, replacing them with aliases instead. Currently, Outlook users can link their account with others from within Outlook.com. Outlook allows users to not only read email from within the Outlook.com context, but also send...
pcworld.com (8 hours ago)
Evernote adds Reminders, extending task-management options
If, like many, you use Evernote as a sophisticated to-do list, the latest update to the essential software and service is about to dramatically increase its usefulness. Reminders give Evernote a full suite of alarm and notification features, ideal for turning static notes into dynamic action items. The company...
pcworld.com (9 hours ago)
Oracle's Q4 results: What to watch
Many eyes in the tech world will fall on Oracle later this week, when the vendor's fourth-quarter results are set for release. This is typically the biggest reporting period for Oracle each year in terms of revenue, but a number of questions loom beyond its top-line performance. Here's a look at some of the topics...
pcworld.com (10 hours ago)
Scientist out to break Amdahl's law
Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial computing. One scientist hopes to prove that Amdahl's law can be surpassed, and that it doesn't apply in certain parallel computing models. A presentation titled "Breaking...
pcworld.com (10 hours ago)
UK spy agency reportedly intercepted email of delegates at G20 meetings in 2009
British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly intercepted the electronic communications of foreign politicians during G20 meetings that took place in London in 2009. The agency used a series of techniques to intercept email, steal online login credentials and monitor the phone...
pcworld.com (12 hours ago)
Bing voice search improves accuracy, speed
In 2012, Microsoft's Rick Rashid blew an Asian audience away with a live translation of his speech into Mandarin. On Monday, Bing added some of that technology to Bing Voice Search, to cut down the processing response time of voice input into Windows Phone by half, while improving accuracy at the same time....
pcworld.com (12 hours ago)
Five ways the Sprint-Clearwire drama might end
The battle of takeovers among Sprint Nextel, Dish Network, Clearwire and SoftBank has heated up as Clearwire's board recommended shareholders accept Dish's bid instead of Sprint's. It may seem strange to see Clearwire, Sprint Nextel's longtime network partner, running into the arms of a rival bidder, but the board's...
pcworld.com (12 hours ago)
US NSA can access data without court approval, leaker says
Analysts at the U.S. National Security Agency can gain access to the content of U.S. targets' phone calls and email messages without court orders, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said, contradicting denials from U.S. government sources. U.S. surveillance agencies have weak policy protections in place to protect U.S....
pcworld.com (12 hours ago)
Understanding Windows 8 Gestures
HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook™ 4Interacting with your computer gets a massive upgrade in the Windows 8 world, and it doesn't involve your mouse and keyboard. Here's the complete guide to everything you need to know about using gestures with Windows 8. Windows 8 features a wholly new way to navigate the operating...
pcworld.com (12 hours ago)
Review: Inky is a half-baked yet delicious email client for your PC desktop
For many of us, there's nothing more important to do online than check, read, and write emails. Inky is an email desktop client that brings all your email accounts together under one roof. It offers most of the features you're used to, and something different as well.
pcworld.com (13 hours ago)
'Titan' falls: Today's top supercomputer is owned by China, powered by Intel
China has regained the crown for the fastest supercomputer on the planet, according to the semiannual Top500 list, which claims that the Milky Way-2 supercomputer has doubled the performance of the previous leader, the American "Titan" supercomputer, in just six months. Milky Way-2, also known as...
pcworld.com (13 hours ago)
Research and compare the latest smartphones at PhoneRocket
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Hassle-Free PC post to bring you the Hassle-Free Phone edition. Trying to decide between, say, an HTC One and a Samsung Galaxy S4. Sure, you can read PC World's awesome reviews, maybe talk to friends and hit some stores for hands-on demos. But ultimately your best bet is to...
pcworld.com (13 hours ago)
Review: Dragon Notes lets you try out Nuance's speech recognition engine at low cost
As a writer, I find Dragon NaturallySpeaking wonderful. Its time-tested and mature speech recognition engine understands me well, and it can transcribe audio files I record on my phone. But at $100-$200, it's also an expensive piece of software, and no, you can't download a demo. What you can do if you're curious...
pcworld.com (13 hours ago)
Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet
Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions. "I don't see it as a problem for us," said Mike Zill, CIO of medical-products...
pcworld.com (14 hours ago)
Get New IT Pros Up to Speed Fast With This Onboarding Checklist
In a recent TekSystems survey, 1,500 IT leaders and 2,400 IT pros were polled on the importance of onboarding. When IT leaders were asked about onboarding's importance, the majority agreed that it's necessary but that many aren't doing it well. 62 percent of IT leaders say an onboarding program is extremely...
pcworld.com (15 hours ago)
A shark's tale: Teenager becomes video sensation by hitching a ride on the world's largest...
Chris Kreis, 19, grabbed the fin of a whale shark and has put the footage on YouTube
mirror.co.uk (15 hours ago)
Fire and Rescue's expanding universe
FIRE and Rescue NSW chief information officer Richard Host likes nothing more than to ponder the workings of the universe in his down time.
news.com.au (16 hours ago)
Radio upgrade gets council connected
NEWCASTLE City Council was faced with maintaining an ageing radio infrastructure and complying with emergency service bandwidth changes.
news.com.au (16 hours ago)
Apple gives Siri an optional sex change
WHY, Rex Harrison's Professor Higgins memorably asked in My Fair Lady, can't a woman be more like a man?
news.com.au (16 hours ago)
