ZTE has filed an application with the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security in hopes that the government will suspend its ban against the company. Last month, the Commerce Department banned U.S. companies from selling parts or software to ZTE for a period of seven years. The government put the ban place because […]
Twitter wants all of its more than 330 million users to immediately change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text. While Twitter’s investigation did not find evidence that any breach or misuse of the unmasked passwords has occurred, the company is recommending that users change their Twitter passwords out of an “abundance […]
Google today said it plans to take a more active role in supporting companies that adopt Google Assistant. It plans to use its Google Ventures arm to invest in startups that are targeting Assistant. In addition to investment capital, Google will offer advice from Google engineers and product managers, offer access to Google partnership programs, […]
Sprint today announced some leadership changes. CEO Marcelo Claure is moving to Sprint’s parent company, SoftBank, where he will oversee Sprint’s merger with T-Mobile. Claure’s new role will be selling the merger to U.S. regulators. He will remain on the board of directors at Sprint. Claure has been Sprint’s CEO since 2014. Moving forward, President and […]
Political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down, it says. Cambridge Analytica announced that bankruptcy proceedings will begin in the U.S., as well as insolvency proceedings in the U.K, where the firm has an office and where its parent company The SCL Group is based. The […]
Blu Products has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it allowed its phones to surreptitiously collect owner data. Blu installed software from a China-based company called ADUPS Technology. The software was intended to help issue security and operating system updates to Blu devices. ADUPS, however, ferreted tons of […]
Senate Democrats are looking to make net neutrality a campaign issue heading into the 2018 mid-term elections and will kick things off May 9 with a vote. Sen. Ed Markey(D) has amassed a total of 50 supporters in the Senate, all 49 Democrats and Republican Susan Collins of Maine. Democrats will need at least one […]
The Justice Department, during closing arguments of its case against the AT&T-Time Warner merger, suddenly suggested the judge weigh “alternative” remedies should he choose not to block the deal. The Justice Department has fought against the merger from the start, saying AT&T would use Time Warner’s content as a weapon against consumers, raising prices and […]
Rick Dickinson, the designer of Sinclair computers, has died in the US while receiving treatment for cancer. The British designer, thought to be in his 60s, worked in-house for Sinclair Research and oversaw the creation of its home computers in the 1980s. He was responsible for the boxy look of the ZX80 and ZX81 (Timex-Sinclair […]
Dutch police have shut down notorious “revenge-porn” website Anon-IB for hosting nude photos stolen from numerous women. Authorities seized Anon-IB’s server and arrested three new suspects connected with the website. On Anon-IB, sexual images of women were routinely shared without their consent and traded among users like baseball cards. Sadly the Internet can be used for evil. […]
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