From PC World: Apple has agreed to pay Ericsson royalties on the wireless devices it sells in settlement of a long-standing patent dispute.
Ericsson owns patents that it considers essential to the implementation of a number of mobile communications standards, including GSM, the 3G standard UMTS and...
From ComputerWorld: The discovery of spying code nestled deeply in Juniper's networking equipment, the latest example of a major IT vendor caught up in an damaging cyberattack, raises many questions.
Juniper said Thursday that one of its firewall operating systems had been modified to allow...
From InfoWorld: Mozilla has taken concrete, if small, steps to realizing WebAssembly, a next-generation approach to Web browsers supporting scripting in multiple languages.
Based on a recent blog post, Mozilla has produced a working toolchain to compile code into WebAssembly. The toolchain is still...
From CNET: Samsung is finally offering a 128GB edition of its Galaxy Note 5, though you'll have to shop in South Korea to grab one.
On Friday, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 5 Winter Edition with 128 gigabytes of onboard storage. Priced at 999,900 Korean won (around $843), the new Note 5 will be...
Many years ago, I helped run a soccer camp for elementary school students. On the last day, everyone went outside and competed against each other -- albeit in a friendly way, since the score was not officially kept -- to see who can individually get the most goals into the net guarded by other leaders. Since there was a wide variance of skills between players, obviously the bigger and more skilled kids did the best, while the little ones who were...
When you were younger, did you ever ask for a gift for Christmas? Whether it was from Santa or from your parents, you probably had some sort of wish list. As for myself, my parents always let me choose something I wanted. I know this approach takes the surprise out of the gift, but at least they knew it was something I actually liked. However, sometimes I think I was just a bit too excited for some gifts, and once I received them, I would use the...
From ComputerWorld: Juniper, a major manufacturer of networking equipment, said on Thursday it found spying code planted in certain models of its firewalls, an alarming discovery that echoes of state-sponsored tampering.
The affected products are those running ScreenOS, one of Juniper's operating...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft SmartScreen, the phishing and malware filtering technology built into Internet Explorer, Edge and Windows, has now been updated to block Web-based attacks that silently exploit software vulnerabilities to infect computers.
Such attacks are known as drive-by downloads...
From PC World: Microsoft delved deeper into providing software for Android on Thursday with the launch of Microsoft Apps, a new application that gives users of Google's operating system a one-stop shop to find apps like Word, Cortana and Bing.
Users download the app to their devices, and can then...
From CNET: Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, the competing mobile-payments services, will go head to head next year in the world's biggest smartphone market.
Apple and Samsung said Thursday they had secured separate deals with the China UnionPay bank that will enable their customers in China to add credit...
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