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Submission + - Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: With Nokia's Windows Phone handset line sold off to Microsoft, one of the company's remaining businesses is its Here digital mapping service. No longer feeling loyalty to Microsoft or its OS, Nokia has inked a deal with Samsung to supply Here services to both Tizen and Android devices, including the upcoming Samsung smartwatch.

Submission + - Facebook Testing Mobile Searches For Old Posts (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: A major critique of newsfeed cascade apps like Facebook and Twitter is that they exist in an eternal present: sure, you may see that your friend Rob is planning on kayaking this weekend, but three hours later when a mutual friend asks you about it in real life, will you remember where he's going and when he's leaving? Facebook is trying to solve this problem, testing out a feature that will let you search for content from older posts from your phone.

Submission + - Netflix Open-Sources Security Tools It Built In-House (itworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Netflix is a fat, tempting target for malicious hackers, and as a result they've developed a suite of tools that automatically monitor chatter on non-password-protected Interet sites and send summaries to Netflix's in-house security team. Now Netflix is open-sourcing these tools so other companies can use them.

Submission + - Silicon Valley Underpays (Non-Tech) Minority Workers (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Tech companies are often faulted for not hiring more minority employees, but in fact they often do — in non tech jobs, such as janitorial and security services. However, a new report indicates that many tech companies pay these workers below the prevailing wages, largely because they hire them through third-party staffing agencies.

Submission + - Microsoft Subsidizing PCs Set To Use Bing By Default (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: If this were 1999, anti-trust authorities would be furious: Microsoft is letting OEMs sell Windows PCs without paying royalties for the OS as long as everything is set by default to use Bing as the main search engine. But this is 2014, and Microsoft's stranglehold on the computer industry is nowhere near as tight as it once was, and it's mostly an attempt to fend off Chrome machines at the low end.

Submission + - This is Tim: How Tim Cook is Becoming the Un-Jobs (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Back in June, the New York Times ran an article (which was picked up by Slashdot) about how Tim Cook is putting his own stamp on Apple. That article, though, focused mainly on personality and style, and ITworld's Andy Patrizio has followed up with a collection of some of the technical, business, and product decisions Cook has made — from embracing the enterprise to dumping Objective C — that let us know we're firmly in the Tim Cook Era.

Submission + - FCC Allowed To Question AT&T, Verizon On Business Broadband Pricing (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has given the FCC permission to collect new data in the long-running dispute over special access pricing. AT&T and Verizon Communications control an estimated 80 percent of the special access market, and competitors have complained for years that the two dominant telecom carriers are charging excessive prices for special access services. The FCC circulated a proposed order on special access in mid-2012, but late that year, also asked for comments on the special access market. Those comments aren't due until late this year.

Submission + - Simple.TV Lets You Share DVR'd Content With Friends: When's The Crackdown? (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Simple.TV is a DVR for over-the-air television programs with a lot of nifty functionality, and it just gained a new one: the ability to share recorded content with friends over the Internet. The question is, how long will media companies tolerate the ability to stream media to other people, even media that arrived for free over the publicly owned airwaves?

Submission + - Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: In a follow-up to yesterday's story about the Chinese hackers who stole hospital data of 4.5 million patients, IDG News Service's Martyn Williams set out to learn why the data, which didn't include credit card information was so valuable. The answer is depressingly simple: people without health insurance can potentially get treatment by using medical data of one of the hacking victims. John Halamka, chief information officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network, said a medical record can be worth between $50 and $250 to the right customer — many times more than the amount typically paid for a credit card number, or the cents paid for a user name and password. 'If I am one of the 50 million Americans who are uninsured ... and I need a million-dollar heart transplant, for $250 I can get a complete medical record including insurance company details,' he said.

Submission + - Vehicle-To-Vehicle Networks Could Save Over 1,000 Lives a Year (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: On Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a research report on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology and is seeking input from the public and industry. In the report, it estimated the safety benefits of just two possible applications of V2V, called Left Turn Assist and Intersection Movement Assist. Together, they could prevent as many as 592,000 crashes and save 1,083 lives per year, the agency said.

Submission + - Baidu Partners With U.N. To Tackle E-waste In China (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: A Web-based app called "Baidu Recycle Station" launched Monday as part a new joint lab established by Baidu and the United Nations Development Program that will use Baidu's Internet services and data analytics to develop programs targeted at helping the environment, health care, education and more. The app is meant to help streamline the recycling of e-waste in China by helping users easily sell their old electronics to legitimate recycling factories. And none too soon: The country is the second largest producer of electronic trash, creating over 3.6 million tons of it each year, according to a U.N. study.

Submission + - Hackers Steal Data On 4.5 Million US Hospital Patients (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Community Health Systems said the attack occurred in April and June of this year, but it wasn't until July that it determined the theft had taken place. Working with a computer security company, it determined the attack was carried out by a group based in China that used 'highly sophisticated malware' to attack its systems. The hackers got away with patient names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers of the 4.5 million people who were referred to or received services from doctors affiliated with the company in the last five years. The stolen data did not include patient credit card, medical or clinical information.

Submission + - Chinese National Indicted Over Boeing Hacks (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Su Bin, a Chinese citizen arrested in Canada, has been indicted over a series of hacks of Boeing's network in which documents pertaining the C-17 military aircraft and F-22 and F-35 fighter planes were stolen. Su allegedly communicated with hackers in China to direct the attacks using free Gmail accounts, excerpts from which were included in FBI affidavits on the case.

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