Intel 1Q earnings fall 13 percent, meet Street – Yahoo Finance
Revenue was flat at $ 12.9 billion. Analysts were expecting $ 12.8 billion. Intel bought computer security company McAfee Inc. and a unit of Infineon AG last year, but the added revenue from those deals was offset by the fact that this year’s … “computer security” – Bing News
Global Email Spam Falls – Wall Street Journal (blog)
Help Net Security Global Email Spam FallsWall Street Journal (blog)Net Security summarizes the findings of a report from Israeli Internet security developer Commtouch. It says that, before Rustock was taken down, a total of 150 billion spam emails were sent every day. In the first quarter of 2012, an average of 94 …Commtouch Appoints Brett [...]
Hacking Wall Street
In this one of a kind book, the author exposes the who, what, why and how of today’s professional hackers as they attempt and often succeed in stealing the identities of millions of consumers and swindle Wall Street’s largest financial services firms out of millions of dollars. For the first time, look inside the world [...]
Android Security Threat From ‘Reverse Smudge Engineering’ – Wall Street Journal (blog)
Android Security Threat From 'Reverse Smudge Engineering'Wall Street Journal (blog)For that reason, I recommend pattern-swipers head over to Android's security settings and uncheck the default “make pattern visible” option. Bray recommends people stop swiping altogether and concludes that the numeric code option is the best for him: …A smudgy screen can foil your Android securityGMA [...]
Bid for Same-Day Delivery Taps the Smartphone Boom (Amir Efrati/Wall Street Journal)
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:Bid for Same-Day Delivery Taps the Smartphone Boom — Numerous start-ups have tried to go after the Holy Grail of e-commerce—delivering things to people’s homes and offices on the same day they ordered them—and have failed. — Postmates Inc., a San Francisco Internet start-up that launched … internet – Techmeme [...]
The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform (Rupert Murdoch/Wall Street Journal)
Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform — If we can engage a child’s imagination, there’s no limit to what he or she can learn. — These days everyone is for education reform. The question is which approach is best. I favor the Steve Jobs model. — In 1984 Steve [...]
Siri Service on Apple’s iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Wall Street Journal)
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:Siri Service on Apple’s iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor — New Devices Dish Out Sarcasm, Tell Jokes; ‘Two iPhones Walk Into a Bar’ — Now even your phone talks back. — Matt Legend Gemmell, a software designer from Edinburgh, got a new Apple Inc. iPhone on Friday and [...]
Decoding Our Chatter (Robert Lee Hotz/Wall Street Journal)
Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal:Decoding Our Chatter — Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market? Researchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds. — When Virginia’s magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit last August …
LG Display Slashes Investment Plan (Jung-Ah Lee/Wall Street Journal)
Jung-Ah Lee / Wall Street Journal:LG Display Slashes Investment Plan — SEOUL—Flat-panel maker LG Display Co. on Monday slashed its capital expenditure target for 2012 to a three-year low, the latest indication that demand for flat-screen TVs and personal computers is set to remain sluggish for some time to come.
In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own, Private Internet (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own, Private Internet — An Iranian engineer who helped design and run the country’s Internet filters says he subtly undermined some censorship until fleeing into exile — Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship …
