The Russian hacking group known for stealing sensitive emails from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election season has been cracking into printers, phones and video decoders to gain access to corporate networks, according to Microsoft. The group, known by a number of names including "Strontium," "Fancy Bear" and "APT 28," accessed the devices by using the manufacturer'...
Elizabeth Warren's desire to curtail Facebook, Amazon and other companies that have misused their massive power -- or may do so in the future -- is well founded. The U.S. appears to be trending toward civil war, and I'd place social media in general on the wrong side of this trend. However, just as ...
Welcome to another installment of every tech-loving optimist's and misanthrope's favorite look at the week's most wondrous and pitiful new gadgets. Ahead, for your delight and dismay, are studies of a wearable walkie-talkie-type communication device, a 360-degree action camera, a tiny 3D printer, a ...
HP brought Enyo -- the open source object-oriented JavaScript framework for webOS -- out of beta this week, six months after the ill-fated operating system was contributed to the open source community. Enyo 2.0 now has a community of developers, a broad set of cross-platform user interface widgets, ...
Most of HP's webOS team, including Matt McNulty, head of the project, is moving to Google according to a report by The Verge citing several unnamed sources. The departing team is said to be almost wholly responsible for Enyo's code. Enyo replaced Mojo as webOS's software development kit in 2011. It ...
Consona offers a line of enterprise resource management and customer relationship management software that is made up of parts that are more recognizable than the whole. Remember Onyx? It belongs to Consona. Same with Knova and, more recently, SupportSoft. Over the last few years, Consona has been s...
Oracle has released Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, an application that builds on its acquisition of Telephony@Work, an on-demand provider of IP-based software infrastructure for hosted contact center services, made exactly a year ago. Oracle Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, is a multimedia IP-based contac...
M2M Holdings has signed an agreement to acquire CRM provider KNOVA Software, in an all cash transaction valued at approximately US$47 million. The deal is expected to close at the end of the first quarter of 2007, subject to approval by KNOVA shareholders. KNOVA provides a niche CRM application call...
Two private equity firms, The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners, jointly announced on Monday that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Open Solutions in a transaction valued at over US$1.3 billion. Under terms of the agreement, The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partner...
On August 1, Onyx's shareholders are set to vote on the pending acquisition of the company by M2M Holdings, a private equity firm jointly owned by Battery Ventures and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners. The deal on the table is an all-cash transaction for US$92 million, or $4.80 per share, and it is one...
Good - It's entertaining and makes sporting events more interesting.
Bad - It increases the risk of gambling addiction and financial loss.
Neutral - The benefits and drawbacks are equally significant.
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