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News organizations demand release of Steve Jobs video
A trio of news organizations yesterday petitioned a federal judge to order Apple to release a two-hour video deposition given by the company's co-founder Steve Jobs just months before his death.In a motion filed Monday, the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN asked U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to give them copies of the Jobs deposition, which the iconic executive sat for in April 2011 as part of an antitrust case now before a jury.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Steve Jobs's office at Apple remains exactly as he left it +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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What happens next in the Cisco suit against Arista?
Arista Networks' stock took it on the chin when Cisco slapped the company with patent infringement and copyright law suits last Friday, losing almost 20% of its value at one point as investors and others mulled the long term implications of the suits.The short answer: this is going to take a long time and could get pretty ugly for Arista.One of the suits accuses Arista of violating 14 Cisco patents, while the second is for extensive copying of Cisco's user manuals and multi-word CLI commands (see Cisco slaps Arista Networks with patent, copyright infringement suits).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
DOJ: Companies need to trust gov't on cybersecurity
The U.S. fight against cybercrime would be more effective if companies put more trust in the country's law enforcement agencies, a top U.S. Department of Justice official said.The DOJ and private companies already cooperate on many cybercrime investigations, but more trust is still needed, said Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general with the DOJ's Criminal Division."There's a tendency among the public, including private-sector technology companies, to a little bit conflate what the Criminal Division does with what other government agencies might do," Caldwell said Tuesday during a forum on cybersecurity in Washington, D.C.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple iOS 8.1.2 for iPhone, iPad addresses disappearing ringtones mystery
Bob Brown, Network World Apple on Tuesday released an iOS update (8.1.2) for the iPhone and iPad that includes unspecified bug fixes, aside from one that the company identified as possibly resulting in ringtones purchased from iTunes disappearing.If you have had issues with tones going poof!, Apple recommends heading here after updating to 8.1.2.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
MIT names U.S. CTO Megan Smith as 2015 commencement speaker
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a seriously early jump on its 2015 commencement exercises, naming U.S. CTO and MIT alum Megan Smith as its speaker for the June 5 event.Smith, who has undergraduate (1986) and master's (1988) degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, was named by President Barack Obama as the chief technology officer of the United States in September. Before that, she was VP of new business development at Google.RELATED: Top Techie College Commencement Speakers of 2014To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Mobile device makers unleash FIDO
Vendors of mobile devices are lining up to implement an authentication scheme meant to make online transactions both simpler and more secure, known as the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) specification, which is being released today.Within a year there could be 20 to 30 vendors integrating FIDO in shipping products, says Michael Barrett, who heads up the FIDO Alliance, an industry group of more than 150 members that has written the specification.+ Also on Network World: Can the FIDO Alliance Help Obsolete User Name/Password Authentication? | Hackers leak top Sony executives' emails +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Comcast sued for launching public Wi-Fi hotspots from customers' routers
A class-action lawsuit filed in San Francisco last week charges Comcast with exploiting its broadband customers by using their in-home routers to send a separate signal for public Wi-Fi hotspots that extend into their neighborhoods, according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle report.Comcast has pushed its plan to create public Wi-Fi hotspots to 19 cities so far, and reportedly plans to launch 8 million hotspots by the end of the year. I covered the project when it launched in Chicago this summer. Here's a quick breakdown from that article on how Comcast is approaching the project.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Guidance counselor in need of one takes to Facebook and threatens to 'shoot' protesters
A Pennsylvania high school guidance counselor has chosen one of the worst ways imaginable to demonstrate to her students the dangers of using social media while under the influence of anger.MaryKate Blankenburg, an employee of Central Bucks High School West in Doylestown, Pa., was unhappy that people were planning to protest the recent legal decisions in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., at the Philadelphia Eagles home football game on Sunday.So she posted on Facebook: "If my child cannot get to the Eagles game due to protesters, I will personally SHOOT every one of them. You've been warned idiots!!"Here is a screen capture, courtesy of a Philadelphia TV station:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook among 8 finalists for Time's Person of the Year
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who dazzled the industry with new iPhones and iPads and showed strength by becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to publicly announce he is gay, has made Time magazine's short list for Person of the Year for 2014.Cook, who filled Steve Jobs' big shoes in 2011, has a shot at winning an honor from Time that Jobs never won. The very well compensated Cook was also a finalist in 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
2014: The year smartwatches died
Something borderline amazing happened to me last weekend… a couple arrived at my house wearing matching smartwatches. I consider that amazing because these smartwatches were only the second and third I've ever seen on the wrists of real people in the wild. The first was at a tech conference over the summer, and that one turned out to be a freebie from the Google I/O conference. And I live in San Francisco, the de facto capital of the tech world.I'm actually very interested in buying and wearing a smartwatch, but I still haven't found one that meets my relatively modest list of needs: The ability to tell the time without pushing a button Activity tracking Sleep tracking Ability to read alerts, message header, and texts Full-day battery life Compatibility with iOS and Android smartphones At least as stylish as a mid-level traditional watch, without announcing itself to people 30 feet away Like many people, I had high hopes for the Apple Watch, but the company's fall announcement brought with it mixed reviews. And more to the point, unlike most Apple hardware announcements that are quickly followed by product availability, the actual product launch won't happen until 2015.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft Tells Windows 10 Users to Uninstall Office
Microsoft today took the unusual step of telling users running Windows 10's Technical Preview to uninstall Office before applying one of December's security updates. "We just made a tough call after working through the night that I thought I should share with you," wrote Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft's operating system group, in a four-part Twitter understatement Tuesday. "We have a security update going out today, and the installer fails on 9879 if Office is installed," Aul continued. "Rather than rolling a new fix (losing several days in the process) we're going to publish it as is. The workaround is painful: uninstall Office, install the hotfix, reinstall Office. Sorry. We're working hard to fix."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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