Google’s Voter Information Tool hopes to make Election Day a little easier
By Mark Hearn posted Oct 30th 2012 6:29AM It’s election season and Google is doing its part to help you “rock the vote.” No, the search kingpin isn’t endorsing a specific candidate, instead it’s doing what it does best — help people search the internet for information. The company’s open source Voter Information Tool is designed to help people research candidates and locate polling places. In...
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Security researcher shares blow-by-blow account of advanced persistent threat
Hackers are brazenly infiltrating corporate networks to steal valuable data for purposes of sharing it with other companies or nation-states — and they’re getting away with it, say security researchers sharing war stories at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami this week. “Unfortunately, IDS [intrusion-detection systems] didn’t detect them,” said Gianni Gnesa, security researcher at Ptrace Security,...
MetroPCS breaks 1 million LTE customers, makes $193 million profit despite losing 312,000 users in Q3
By Daniel Cooper posted Oct 30th 2012 6:51AM MetroPCS might be the smaller of the two parties in the proposed merger with T-Mobile, but it certainly knows how to coin a profit in difficult times. The carrier recorded a massive $193 million net profit this quarter, $44 million more than it made in Q2, despite losing 312,000 subscribers in the three month period. The reason behind the rosy numbers was a combination of cash-saving...
Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8 SDK
One day after the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has released the SDK (software development kit) that will allow programmers to write applications for the new platform. Microsoft released the software for the kick off of its developer focused Build conference, being held this week in Redmond, Washington. In Tuesday’s keynote address at Build, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted...
