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An anonymous reader writes: The President of the United Arab Emirates has issued a series of new federal laws relating to IT crimes, including a regulation that forbids anyone in the UAE from making use of virtual private networks to secure their web t… Continue reading Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000
Oracle announced Thursday that it has agreed to buy NetSuite for $9.3 billion, in a move to bolster its cloud-computing offerings as it races to catch up to rivals. Both companies provide applications for running a business called enterprise-resource-p… Continue reading Oracle To Buy Cloud-Software Provider NetSuite For $9.3 Billion
Apple announced Wednesday that it has sold more than one billion iPhones. To understand the magnitude of the milestone, Asymco’s Horace Dediu has compiled a list of the best-selling products across several categories. From his post (link shared via ema… Continue reading The Most Popular Product Of All Time
Apple announced on Wednesday that it has sold its one billionth iPhone handset. The milestone comes nine years after the iPhone was first introduced. The phone has unarguably shaped the smartphone industry and bolstered the apps market. In a statement,… Continue reading One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says
IEEE Spectrum, a highly regarded magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has released its annual programming languages list, sharing with the world how several languages fared against each other. To assess the language… Continue reading C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE’s Study
An anonymous reader writes: Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. called on Apple and Google to weaken their device encryption, arguing that thousands of crimes remained unsolved because no one can crack into the perpetrators’ phones. Vance, spea… Continue reading New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption
Director James Cameron says that the key to containing movie piracy is preserving the theater experience as something special. He made the remarks when reporters asked him about his views on Sean Parker’s upcoming streaming service Screening Room which… Continue reading James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy
Microsoft will release Windows 10 Anniversary Update next week. Earlier this week we listed some of its best features. PCWorld is now reporting about a major change that may annoy some users: once you’ve installed the update, Cortana can no longer be d… Continue reading You Can’t Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
An anonymous reader shares a Gizmodo report:The U.S. Olympics Committee has gone off the deep end, when it comes to intellectual property. It’s willing to sue anyone to protect their trademarks, even when the use is no real threat. But the committee’s … Continue reading Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump publicly called on the Russian hackers allegedly responsible for the recent leak of DNC emails to launch another cyber-attack on the United States, this time to hack emails from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as s… Continue reading Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton’s ‘Missing’ Emails