Mit Moneyland geht im schweizerischen Finanzbereich ein neuer Vergleichsdienst online. Der Dienst ermöglicht es laut Mitteilung, verschiedene Finanzdiensleistungen durch einen unabhängigen Anbieter vergleichen zu lassen.
Nach dem Fernsehen sind jetzt auch Filme auf Abruf unterwegs auf Smartphones und Tabletcomputern erhältlich. Die Schweizer Firma Hollystar bringt als Erste mit einer App eine mobile Videothek auf iPhones und iPads sowie Android-Smartphones und -Tablets.
Der chinesische IKT-Anbieter Huawei verstärkt seine Präsenz in Grossbritannien. Der ITK-Riese hat einen neuen Hauptsitz im Green Park bei Reading eröffnet. Der neue Hauptsitz sei ein weiterer Schritt im Rahmen eines langfristigen Engagementw von Huawei in England, heisst es.
Der Informant in der Prism-Ausspähaffäre will nach eigener Aussage vorerst in Hongkong bleiben. Er wolle das Volk und die Gerichte der Stadt über sein Schicksal entscheiden lassen, sagte Edward Snowden in einem am Mittwoch veröffentlichten Interview der "South China Morning Post".
Twitter ist in Frankreich in einem Berufungsverfahren erneut dazu verpflichtet worden, die Absender rassistischer oder antisemitischer Tweets zu nennen. Twitter war einem entsprechenden Urteil erster Instanz nicht nachgekommen. Das Unternehmen habe nicht überzeugend dargelegt, warum es die Daten nicht liefern haben könne.
Die US-amerikanische Virtualisierungsspezialist VMware geht mit einem neuen Produkt auf Kundenfang. Mit vCenter Log Insight will das Unternehmen künftig ein automatisiertes Management- und Analysewerkzeug anbieten.
Der im Besitz der Kantone St. Gallen und Zürich befindliche IT-Dienstleister Abraxas verzeichnet im Geschäftsjahr 2012 einen Umsatzrückgang von 110.5 Millionen (2011) auf 103 Millionen Franken. Der Umsatz reduzierte sich von 6,2 Millionen Franken im Jahre 2011 auf 5,3 Millionen im abgelaufenen Jahr. Dennoch ist das Management zufrieden mit dem Ergebnis.
Die Schweizer Telekomanbieterin Sunrise setzt künftig auf Carrier Ethernet Netztechnik von RAD Data Communications. Mit den Ethernet-Demarkationsgeräten an den Kundenübergabeschnittstellen und zentralen Aggregationslösungen aus dem ETX-Portfolio für Service Assured Access von RAD will Sunrise ein Ende-zu-Ende-Netz aufbauen.
Seit Anfang Juni gelten bei Swisscom günstigere Prepaid-Roamingpreise für Tablet oder Laptop. Nun legt der Telko nach und senkt auch die Gebühren für die Handynutzung im Ausland.
Samsung versucht sich erneut an der Kombination von Android und einer Kompaktkamera. Stieß die "Galaxy Camera" noch auf mäßige Resonanz, will man es mit dem Galaxy S4 Zoom besser machen. Faktisch stellt das Gerät eine Vereinigung aus dem Galaxy S4 Mini und einer 16 MP-Kamera dar.
The performance of your smartphone is influenced by many factors, including the operating system, manufacturer, and wireless carrier. But there’s one essential and often-overlooked element that’s largely responsible for the speed, efficiency, and battery life of your smartphone—the processor. Here’s a simple guide to how it works, and what makes an all-in-one processor so powerful. The processor is the central hub of your smartphone. It receives and executes every command, performing billions of calculations per second. The effectiveness of the processor directly affects every application you run, whether it’s the camera, the music player, or just a simple email program. Pick the wrong one and you could experience sluggish, stuttering apps and limited network performance, regardless of carrier, manufacturer, or operating system. When you swipe your way down a web page, you’re commanding the processor to make billions of simultaneous and instantaneous interactions. When you do something more complex, like playing an online multiplayer game with 3D –intensive graphics or capturing 1080p video, the load put on a processor can be quite immense. The ability of the processor to coordinate efficient communication between the wireless data, graphics, and memory is essential to smooth operation. The CPU, GPU, audio and video engine, connectivity features (GPS, WiFi, FM), and 3G/4G modem are the major components of a processor that control the operation of your smartphone. Let’s take a look at what they do, and how they work together with the processor to make every action so seamless.
The way we use and interact with technology has changed dramatically in recent years. The days of working 9-to-5 tethered to a desktop PC in an office are virtually extinct. Now, we live in an increasingly wireless, mobile, connected world, where people get things done virtually anywhere, and everywhere. Smartphones and tablets have been a significant catalyst for the mobile revolution, but they offer a limited experience and pose challenges of their own. What users really need is an actual computer designed for a mobile world. What people need is an Ultrabook™. Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have a number of unique advantages. They’re smaller, thinner, and lighter even than the most svelte Ultrabook systems available and they have exceptional battery life. The fact remains, though, that a smartphone or tablet is not a PC. They can perform many very useful tasks, but tViziohere’s also a lot they can’t do. Many of the tasks that can be done from a mobile device require finding tools that are compatible with the applications you use on your computer, and creative solutions to sync data or make sure you have access to the data on your PC from the smartphone or tablet.
in Las Vegas, HP Cloud OS “will provide the foundation for our common architecture for the HP converged cloud,” said Saar Gillai, HP senior vice president and general manager of the converged cloud, referring to the company’s strategy of unifying its on-premises cloud software and cloud services under the same architecture so customers will have little difficulty moving their workloads between the two. “We’re bridging between private cloud and public cloud,” he said. Research commissioned by HP estimates that 75 percent of enterprise workloads will run across hybrid cloud, or a combination of on-premises cloud systems and public hosted services. open-source suite of infrastructure hosting software. But it will also come with a number of features not found, or not well-supported yet, by OpenStack.
Apple on Monday, almost as an afterthought, announced it was working on browser-based versions of its , a move one analyst said challenged Microsoft’s Office behemoth. For a few minutes during Monday’s keynote of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Roger Rosner, who heads iWork development, spun through a quick demonstration of iWork for iCloud, a second attempt by Apple to move its Pages word processor, Numbers spreadsheet, and Keynote presentation maker into the Internet age. That first attempt, dubbed iWork.com, ended miserably last July, more than three years after its launch, when Apple pulled the plug. iWork.com was intended to complement the locally installed suite by the same name, but offered no Web-based document creation or editing, and instead made do with document viewing, downloading, and commenting. iWork for iCloud, on the other hand, is to be a full-featured trio of applications that run in a browser on either OS X or Windows, and allow document creation and editing on all a user’s devices. They are, essentially, Pages, Numbers and Keynote ported to the Web.
Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world’s fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has built a prototype supercomputer running on ARM processors that will be deployed in July, the research center said in a statement Wednesday. The high-performance computer is being announced ahead of the International Supercomputing Conference, which will take place next week in Leipzig, Germany. ARM processors are used in most of the world’s smartphones and tablets, while more than 400 of the fastest supercomputers on the Top500 list are based on x86 server processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. Interest in plugging smartphone processors into servers is growing as companies look to reduce power bills, and ARM processors have been considered for use in servers processing Web-based workloads. Supercomputing performance is doubling every two years, but power consumption is going up too. BSC has been researching low-power ARM processor use in supercomputers as a way to boost performance while dropping power consumption. BSC that cheaper ARM processors could ultimately overtake the more power hungry and expensive x86 server chips, much like x86 nudged out IBM’s Power and other RISC processors in the past.
SAP has received a ruling that sets a legal landmark in patent law and could also prove favorable to its defense in a long-running intellectual-property dispute with Versata. In September, SAP filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal board, arguing that five patent claims by Versata were unpatentable. The board agreed with SAP in a decision released Tuesday, saying the claims in question “recite unpatentable abstract ideas” and “do not provide enough significant meaningful limitations to transform these abstract ideas into patent-eligible applications of these abstractions.” SAP’s petition was made possible as part of the America Invents Act, legislation that went into effect on Sept. 16. The act allows the USPTO to review the validity of “business method” patents like the one at issue in the SAP-Versata matter. But Versata still has an option, according to one legal expert.
On Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard and Google debuted an IT solution for small- and medium-size businesses that are looking to eliminate complexity and cut costs. The new offering bundles HP's PC hardware with Google's Google Apps services. It's so simple, the companies said, that HP is calling it "HP SMB IT in a Box," combining PCs and printers with the Google Apps suite of productivity services. It's all tied up with a thin layer of HP management software, designed to virtually eliminate oversight, and help keep setup to a minimum. The new program will roll out in July via HP's reseller network, HP said. . this past spring for $330, but also followed it up recently with the Pavilion 14, a $299 version that reinforces the company's commitment to Google's services.
Access to Google’s Gmail service appears to be disrupted in Iran just days before the country’s presidential election. Google said it has noticed a drop in connectivity to Gmail from the country. The connectivity drop appears to fall short of a complete block of Gmail services, but there may be significant disruptions for users in Iran, Google said. On Tuesday, a group called “Iran News Update” said on Twitter that Gmail had been blocked in the country and VPN (virtual private network) connections were being disrupted. Iranians are scheduled to go to the polls on Friday for the first round of the country’s presidential election. A second round will be held on June 21 should no candidate succeed in getting more than 50 percent of the first-round vote. Six candidates are competing to replace President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is stepping down because he has reached the limit of his presidential term.
Picture this: You own a small retail shop. Maybe a restaurant. An angry woman comes into your store and begins complaining—loudly and profanely—about bad service she says she received the prior day. She demands satisfaction—free stuff, mainly—and she's filming all of this on her cell phone. Compounding the problem, you're not actually at the store. There's just a lone, underpaid employee to deal with the increasingly crazy demands of a borderline lunatic ranting about something he wasn't even involved with originally. It's hard to imagine dealing with such a challenge, but this exact scenario played out in a Florida Dunkin' Donuts over the weekend. One . [Warning: Considerable profanity.] In a normal universe — or at least the one in which we seem to reside — this all would have quickly escalated, probably ending in a brawl once Chapman started hurling racial epithets and branding Dunkin' Donuts as a pariah in the world of chain restaurants. Instead, Dunkin' Donuts has come out completely unscathed, now being held up as an example of corporate responsibility and smart employee training, thanks to the double edge of social media and the grace under pressure exhibited by employee Abid Adar, an 18-year-old who took the verbal abuse, tried to make good on Chapman's request, and didn't fight back at all.
Duplicate file finders can strip your hard drive of unnecessary clutter. In recent months, I've tested several duplicate file finders, including the free . The free AllDup is yet another way to get this task done, and according to its website, is a flexible and quick to do so. According to my tests, AllDup 3.4.18 truly is quick: It scanned my entire hard drive in well under a minute, finding 316GB of duplicates of all kinds. Althhough my current hard drive only contains around 50GB of data, the scan time was still impressive. Naturally, scan results depend on your chosen scan settings, and there are many to choose from with AllDup. The product's interface includes buttons such as File Filter, Search Criteria, Search Options, and Source Folders, each offering a different set of scan preferences you can control. Scan settings for AllDup are very flexible: You can scan for duplicates by name, extension, size, content, creation date, and other criteria, filter the scan by file type, search inside archive files such as ZIP and RAR, and exclude files of a certain size, to only name a few. Having included so many different settings to play with, AllDup takes into account the fact that you might not want to set all these very often. The Profiles button lets you create and save different scan profiles, so you can easily switch between your different scan settings. Before we get into the most interesting part, the scan results, there are several more features worth mentioning. You can set AllDup to log any and all activities, in case you want to go back and remember what you found, what actions you took, and what errors the program returned. You can also set up an external comparison program to compare the contents of files, or set Microsoft Word to compare the contents of DOC, DOCX, RTF, and TXT files. It's also possible to add AllDup to the Windows Explorer context menu, for a quick duplicate scan inside a specific folder.
Reader Larry wrote me regarding his new Asus machine, which came without any kind of recovery disks (which would be used to restore Windows in the event of a major system meltdown). That's not uncommon these days. Even on systems that have optical drives (which are increasingly rare), computer vendors opt to save money by skipping the Windows restore/recover disks that were once common. , that can help overcome the kinds of problems that would normally require recovery media. Refresh effectively reinstalls Windows while retaining all your programs, settings, and data—a great way to troubleshoot a system that's gone flaky on you. Reset, on the other hand, does a system wipe and reinstall, giving you the equivalent of a factory-new installation. Neither option requires any kind extra media.
France Télécom’s CEO Stéphane Richard has been charged with conspiracy to defraud, a Paris court announced Wednesday. The charge relates to alleged activities before he joined the company. The Financial Brigade of the French police arrested Richard Monday in order to question him about his alleged role in a five-year-old political scandal. He was charged Wednesday, according to . The allegations against Richard relate to a dispute between the bank Crédit Lyonnais and French businessman and political figure Bernard Tapie over the sale of the sporting goods company Adidas. The dispute was resolved by an arbitration panel appointed by the Ministry of Finance, resulting in a payment of €403 million to Tapie. Investigators want to know how the decision to appoint the panel came about, and whether the arbitration process was entirely legal. Richard was allegedly involved through his role as cabinet director for Christine Lagarde, then the French Minister of Finance. Lagarde has since become director of the International Monetary Fund, while Richard joined France Télécom in September 2009, becoming chairman and CEO in March 2011.
If you took a dash of WordPress, added a sprinkle of Twitter and a tablespoon of Facebook, you just might end up with Glipho…or, at least, what Glipho hopes to become. Billed as "the social publishing engine," Glipho is a cloud-based service that aims to build a social community of writers and help those writers increase their visibility.
Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application development to the framework. HTML5 applications are easier to build with Java EE 7 through features such as “low-latency, bi-directional communication with WebSockets,” data exchange via JSON and the ability to support more concurrent users, Oracle said on Wednesday. Other aspects of Java EE 7 are aimed at performance and scalability. For example, batch jobs can be divided into “manageable chunks,” giving OLTP (online transaction processing) applications uninterrupted performance, Oracle said.
The German city-state of Berlin won’t migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards. that was voted down by the state parliament on Monday. It is the second time the opposition Greens had proposed switching Berlin’s 68,000 workstations to open source software, and the second time they failed, said Thomas Birk, the party’s spokesman for government modernization, on Wednesday. The earlier effort was in 2007. ($14.6 million) by November last year.
At first glance, the tiny conference room tucked away in a back corner of the L.A. Convention Center’s West Hall seemed like any other: cramped, with white walls and gray carpeting, under the unrelenting glow of fluorescent lighting. Then I slipped the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset over my eyes, and the four walls disappeared. Turning my head in one direction revealed mountains buffered by fierce snow flurries. Slowly panning my head in the other direction brought rivers of lava into view—and a hulking, demonic monster sitting on a rock throne in a dark cave. Dramatic? Sure, but it’s more than just poetic license. Oculus Rift utterly engulfs you in PC-generated virtual worlds, making you feel like you’re truly inhabiting digital domains—and the newly improved version I went eyes-on with at E3 2013 is already demonstrably better than the developer version . While the developer kit of the Oculus Rift maxes out at 720p resolution, the headset that Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe handed me at E3 rocked a full 1080p HD resolution. The company had never demonstrated a 1080p headset before Tuesday.
Tibco has made it possible to plan, manage and launch third-party web meeting and video chat services from its Tibbr enterprise social networking (ESN) suite. The new feature, called Tibbr Meetings, gives users the ability to trigger web meeting and video conferencing sessions from within the suite’s interface on Microsoft’s Skype, Cisco’s WebEx and Google’s Hangouts. Tibbr Meetings was conceived after Tibco decided it wouldn’t make sense to build a native web meeting and video conferencing component for Tibbr. In its experience, Tibco has found that most organizations are already using an existing product of this sort. “We want to let customers use whatever [product] they want,” said Ram Menon, Tibco’s president of social computing. The company may add support for other online meeting and video conferencing systems and services.
Rambus has signed a $240 million patent licensing agreement with SK Hynix, ending a nearly 13-year patent dispute between the two companies over memory-chip technology. The five-year agreement settles all outstanding disputes with SK Hynix, Ron Black, president and CEO of Rambus, said during a conference call on Tuesday. The agreement is part of Rambus’ strategy to collaborate with industry to develop innovative technologies and possibly drive standards. The company which has indicated its preference to settle rather than litigate, however said it would if required “aggressively defend our IP.” Under the agreement, SK Hynix gets a five-year license to Rambus’ memory and interface patents, and a fully paid up license going forward for some selected DRAM products, Black said. In return, SK Hynix will be paying Rambus $12 million per quarter for the next five years, starting from the third quarter of this year.
The operator of a website that sold more than $100 million worth of pirated software to customers worldwide was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in a U.S. federal prison. Li Xiang, a 36-year old resident of Chengdu, China, was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and criminal copyright infringement for operating the website crack99.com, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) statement. He was arrested in June 2011 by U.S. agents when they lured him to a meeting in Saipan where he believed he was delivering 20 gigabytes of data to the representatives of U.S. businessmen. Saipan, an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and like the Atlantic island of Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the U.S., giving American authorities jurisdiction. Li’s website specialized in offering copies of industrial software which had the access control or licensing files removed or circumvented.
, but after walking the floor for a couple of hours, it’s clear that pure PC gaming is pretty much relegated to two locations at E3: The IndieCade and the Bohemia Interactive booth. I’ll be checking out the IndieCade later, but I jumped at the opportunity to visit Bohemia Interactive as soon as the show started. Bohemia is showing off new iterations of its two crown gems at E3: ARMA III, and the standalone version of the post-apocalyptic zombie survival game DayZ. Both games were available for hands-on testing, and they’re looking pretty darned awesome, if a wee bit “the same, but better”-ish. Then again, the gameplay at the heart of both games is so solid that a fresh coat of paint and some minor additions are welcome changes indeed. An alpha version of this tactical military shooter has been available since early March, offering both a single-player mode and some multiplayer action. The early stuff was focused primarily on straightforward infantry battle aside from the occasional truck tossed in for good measure. The beta version playable at E3 (and available through Steam on July 25) lays down the wood.
It’s —but that’s no reason to let your guard down. The average number of security bulletins for the first five months of 2013 was nine. A paltry five security bulletins for June is only about half what IT admins have come to expect, so it’s nice to get to take it easy a bit. The one Critical security bulletin is the cumulative update for Internet Explorer, along with four Important security bulletins that still deserve prompt attention. Lamar Bailey, director of security research for , acknowledges that monthly Internet Explorer updates have become the norm. Bailey points out that it’s still a bit unusual for a single IE update to address 19 separate vulnerabilities, and proclaims, “It’s just a matter of time before one of these gets exploited.” that the flaws in MS13-047 affect all supported versions of Internet Explorer from IE6 to IE10, running on all supported versions of Windows from XP to RT. “Given the large number of vulnerabilities fixed, this will be the main target for attackers to reverse engineer and construct an exploit that can be delivered through a malicious webpage.”
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting customers of Verizon Communications. violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, giving U.S. residents the rights of free speech and association, and the Fourth Amendment, protecting residents against unreasonable searches and seizures. The program, as described in a news report by the , exceeds the authority Congress gave the NSA in the Patriot Act, the ACLU alleged. Named as defendants in the lawsuit are James Clapper, director of national intelligence in President Barack Obama’s administration; Keith Alexander, director of the NSA; Chuck Hagel, U.S. secretary of defense; Eric Holder, U.S. attorney general and Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Verizon is not named as a defendant.
A new batch of security updates released by Microsoft on Tuesday address a total of 23 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows and Microsoft Office, including one that is actively exploited by attackers. The handling of digital certificates in Windows was also improved. , is rated critical. This bulletin addresses 19 privately reported vulnerabilities that affect all Internet Explorer versions, from IE 6 to 10, and could allow remote attackers to execute code on computers with the privileges of the active user. In order to exploit one of these vulnerabilities attackers need to set up a maliciously crafted Web page and trick users into visiting it. However, on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012, Internet Explorer runs in a restricted mode called Enhanced Security Configuration that mitigates the vulnerability. These Internet Explorer vulnerabilities might be a target for attackers who could try to reverse engineer the patches and build reliable exploits, said Wolfgang Kandek, the chief technology officer at security vendor Qualys.
Ultrabook™ audio quality has gone way beyond the lap-bound sound you’ve become accustomed to. By utilizing a range of new and complex technologies in audio processing and sound reproduction, the Ultrabook has become the device of choice for discerning listeners. A few Ultrabook options in particular stand out as ideal systems for the movie lovers and music aficionados who take sound seriously. These systems show dedication to the entire audio experience and can deliver amazing sound through built-in speakers or capable headphones. They owe that accomplishment in part to reaching out to the people who know audio best. Some Ultrabook manufacturers have partnered with big-name audio companies to optimize the experience you get from their devices. With guidance and cooperation from experts at Dolby, Beats Audio, and other organizations, these systems are catered to your media needs. , which incorporates Beats Audio processing technology. Beats Audio is famous for its Dr. Dre-endorsed headphones which deliver your music exactly as the artist intended it to be heard. A Beats processor reduces clipping, a byproduct of digital processing that “clips” the top and bottom ranges of the audio file.. Beats Audio supports a wider audio range and enhances bass for a better experience, which is especially dynamic when coordinated with a set of Beats headphones.
A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would require the nation’s attorney general to declassify opinions issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in an effort to shed light on the government surveillance programs the surveillance court approves. The bill, co-sponsored by Senators Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, and Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, would require that the substantive legal interpretations of U.S. surveillance law issued by FISC be made public. The legislation would allow the attorney general to keep court information classified if he determined that making it public would undermine national security interests, but would then require him to declassify a summary of that opinion. The lawmakers introduced the legislation just days after a series of news reports by the alleged that the U.S. National Security Agency is collecting massive amounts of U.S. residents’ data from telephone carriers and Internet companies, potentially violating U.S. law. “Americans deserve to know how much information about their private communications the government believes it’s allowed to take under the law,” Merkley . “There is plenty of room to have this debate without compromising our surveillance sources or methods or tipping our hand to our enemies. We can’t have a serious debate about how much surveillance of Americans’ communications should be permitted without ending secret law.”
Microsoft said Tuesday that it had increased the amount of “bird's-eye” data inside Bing Maps by almost half, as the company tries to keep up with the 3D mapping capabilities offered by its competitors. Microsoft also added to its roster of “venue maps” of stadiums and conference halls. Microsoft’s Bing said that it had added about 270 terabytes of bird's-eye data to its Bing Maps database, versus the 500 terabytes of data that it had already stored. The existing data covered 1,452,958 sq kilometers, the company said. Bing’s “bird's-eye” view captures data at a 45-degree angle, providing a sense of perspective that flat, top-down satellite imagery doesn’t provide. And in places like the suburbs, the bird's-eye perspective offers a better view of houses, which is why real-estate Web sites like Zillow used Bing’s bird's-eye perspective to provide an alternative viewpoint from a traditional maps view. Now, however, Zillow and Trulia, among others, have added Google’s Street View into their perspectives. , providing its own 3D imagery to Apple Maps.
Hewlett-Packard wants to help organizations get rid of their useless data, all the information that is no longer needed yet still takes up expensive space on storage servers. The company’s Autonomy unit has released a new module, called Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup, that can delete data automatically based on the material’s age and other factors, according to Joe Garber, who is the Autonomy vice president of information governance. Hewlett-Packard announced the new software, along with a number of other updates and new services, at its HP Discover conference, being held this week in Las Vegas, For this year’s conference, HP will focus on “products, strategies and solutions that allow our customers to take command of their data that has value, and monetize that information,” said Saar Gillai, HP’s senior vice president and general manager for the converged cloud.
Privacy advocates are pushing the U.S. Congress to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency’s efforts to collect massive amounts of data from U.S. residents, as alleged in recent news reports. More than 80 organizations have signed a letter calling on Congress to take “take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA’s and the FBI’s data collection programs.” Recent news reports from the . “As a result, the contents of communications of people both abroad and in the U.S. can be swept in without any suspicion of crime or association with a terrorist organization.” The U.S. intelligence agencies have been collecting business-record metadata from Verizon, several Internet companies and possibly from other telecom carriers and credit-card companies, according to the recent news reports. The source of the information about the data collection was Edward Snowden, a contractor at the NSA.