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Microsoft warns Windows PCs also vulnerable to ‘Freak’ attacks

March 6, 2015 creative 70-year-history, annual, apple, bellevue, breaches, creating-new, cutting, microsoft, mission-centers, mobile-devices, national, only-threaten, sharpening-its, start, windows

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which was initially believed to only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers, Microsoft Corp warned. News of the vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday when a group of nine security experts disclosed that ubiquitous Internet encryption technology could make devices running Apple Inc's iOS and Mac operating systems, along with Google Inc's Android browser vulnerable to cyber attacks

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Computing, telecoms industries set on collision course

March 6, 2015 admin 70-year-history, annual, apple, barcelona, breaches, china-mobile, cloud-computing, cutting, leila-abboud, mobile, only-threaten, operators, sharpening-its, silicon-valley, the-operators

By Eric Auchard and Leila Abboud BARCELONA (Reuters) – Telecom network gear makers are on a collision course with Silicon Valley computing giants as software and cloud computing have begun to change the way operators from AT&T to China Mobile run their networks. As networks move to relatively standard hardware, formerly entrenched equipment groups must increasingly compete for contracts with the likes of Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and VMware, as well as a slew of startups.

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Starboard reiterates Yahoo should combine with AOL

January 8, 2015 creative after-gunmen, annual, are-plotting, chiefs-give, grounds, jennifer-saba, media-reports, safety-hatch, yahoo

(Reuters) – Activist-investor Starboard Value LP has reiterated that Yahoo Inc should consider a merger with AOL Inc and cut costs to improve profits, spurred by media reports that Yahoo is exploring other large-scale acquisitions. Starboard, in September, urged Yahoo to consider merging with AOL on the grounds that a deal could create up to $1 billion in “synergies” by reducing overlaps in online display advertising and other overhead costs

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Haitian radio host honored for ‘tweeting’ on quake (AFP)

March 3, 2010 admin annual, carel-pedre, caribbean, country, image, service-honored, shorty-awards, Technology, the-earthquake, twitter, wednesday

AFP – A Haitian radio host who used Twitter to inform the world about the earthquake which ravaged his country was among the users of the micro-blogging service honored at a ceremony.