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Submission + - Why Is Internet Access In Africa So Difficult? (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Eight of the ten countries in the world with the lowest levels of Internet penetration are in Africa. Some of the reasons may seem obvious to outside observers — the poverty of much of the continent's population for instance. But it's also true that broadband rates on undersea cables that connect the continent remain prohibitively high.

Submission + - Google's Security Guards Are Now Officially Google Employees (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: People concerned about the growing gap between the rich and poor point to a common practice in Silicon Valley: going through staffing agencies for non-core jobs like janitorial and security work, leaving those workers disconnected from the company and lacking in the job security and benefits their co-workers take for granted. Google has now decided to buck the trend, bringing their security guards in-house.

Submission + - The Worst People You Meet In IT (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Anyone who's worked in IT long enough has come to recognize certain archtypes that can make your work day miserable: The Consultant. The Underqualified Humanities Degree Middle Manager. The Mansplainer. The Political Theorist. And more. Who's your least favorite?

Submission + - 'Digital Nomads' In Chang Mai Get Brief Scare From Thai Immigration Authorities (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: The 21st century has seen a rise in "digital nomads" — people with work-at-home or freelance jobs who travel the world, knowing they can earn money wherever they have a laptop and internet access. But sometimes its easy to forget about the reality of immigration law: Thai authorities briefly detained a group of freelancers who were working in a Chang Mai co-working space before deciding they weren't violating the conditions of their tourist visas.

Submission + - Conservative Groups Accuse FCC Of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Conservative groups opposed to net neutrality have beef with the FCC, claiming the commission helped pro-net neutrality advocates file comments on the subject without similarly helping opponents. In other news out of this camp, it turns out their claims of sending out 2.4 million letters to Congress opposing net neutrality specifically meant getting 800,000 people to send three letters each.

Submission + - Apple might lose Siri's core tech to Samsung 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We all know Apple bought Siri in 2010, but what many didn't know is its core technology is owned by Nuance, maker of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Well, it seems Samsung is looking to buy Nuance, and if it does, what are the chances it will cut off the Nuance core from Apple? About as likely as the sun rising in the east.

Submission + - Intel Eats Its Own Dogfood, Saves $9M Using Internet Of Things In Factory (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: A good way to sell someone a new technology? Prove to them that you believe in it enough to use it yourself. IBM has been trying to get customers to buy into the concept of the "Internet of Things," in which tiny distributed networked sensors would improve manufacturing processes. To prove its point, Big Blue implemented such a system in one of its Malaysian factories, and claimed $9 million in savings.

Submission + - Malware Targets Hong Kong Protestors' Cell Phones (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: An iOS trojan called Xsser mRAT seems to be targeting people in Hong Kong protesting China's plan to restrict elections there, and Lacoon Mobile Security says it has trademarks of being developed by a nation-state. A similar piece of malware masqueraded as a tool for coordinating protests and attacked Android users. The trojan collects SMS messages, call logs, location data, photos, and address books data.

Submission + - Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Four alleged members of an international computer hacking ring face charges in the U.S. of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. Army and several tech companies and stealing several software packages, including programs used to train Army helicopter pilots, as well as software and data related to the Xbox One gaming console, the Xbox Live online gaming service and popular games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Gears of War 3.

Submission + - Chinese Regulator Claims Flaws In Apple's iOS Can Steal Users' Data (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: China has effectively cleared the iPhone 6 for sale in the country, granting the product a license, but not before a government regulator demanded Apple make some security changes in the iOS operating system to fix suspected flaws in the software. These flaws involved "three background services" that can be exploited to retrieve users' private information, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in its posting.

Submission + - EPIC Seeks FTC Enforcement Action Over Arizona Data Breaches (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: In 2011, the Maricopa County Community College District suffered a data breach, with 400 people's information stolen. The district was warned that it needed to improve its security. An audit in 2012 revealed that it hadn't. In 2013, the FBI found 14 of the district's databases for sale online, with data including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and birth dates. Now electronic privacy watchdog EPIC is demanding that the FTC bring a legal enforcement action against the district for its negligence.

Submission + - HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: While Windows-based tablets haven't exactly set the world on fire, Microsoft hasn't given up on them, and its hardware partners haven't either. HP has announced a series of Windows tablets, with the 7-inch low-end model, the Stream 7, priced at $99. The Stream brand is also being used for low-priced laptops intended to compete with Chromebooks (which HP also sells). All are running Intel chips and full Windows, not Windows RT.

Submission + - Microsoft Revives Its Hardware Conference (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, was an annual staple of the '90s and '00s: every year, execs from Redmond would tell OEMs what to expect when it came to Windows servers and PCs. The conference was wrapped with software into Build in 2009, but now it's being revived to deal with not just computers but also the tablets and cell phone Microsoft has found itself in the business of selling and even making. It's also being moved from the U.S. to China, as an acknowledgement of where the heart of the tech hardware business is now.

Submission + - Japanese Phone Company Wants To Buy Dreamworks Animation (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Softbank is the scrappy number three mobile phone company in Japan, and, since it bought Sprint last year, fills a similar niche in the United States. Dreamworks Animation has produced hits like "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" but has never matched its rival Pixar. They seem to make an unlikely pair, but that hasn't stopped Softbank from trying to buy the animation studio.

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