Day: September 10, 2013

Business Microsoft

Microsoft investors want Ford’s Mulally as the next CEO

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon With longtime Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer having announced his plans to retire, everyone is hungry to find out who his successor will be. And while early rumors pointed to outgoing Nokia CEO (and longtime Microsoft exec) Stephen Elop, some prominent voices are pushing for the company to hire someone that specializes in turning around troubled firms. Reuters reports that “at least three” of Microsoft’s top 20 investors are urging its board to…

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Business Cloud Security

Shine Security Is Reinventing The Antivirus Company For The Age Of Zero-Day Attacks

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco,Shine Security is reinventing the idea of what it means to be an antivirus company in an age of cyber-warfare and zero-day attacks. The company’s technology was built by white hat, ethical hackers, and works in real time, performing behavioral monitoring on end users’ systems in order to stop newly emerging threats that other anti-virus firms have yet to discover or identify. It may…

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Business Security

SlickLogin Aims To Kill The Password By Singing A Silent Song To Your Smartphone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK The password needs to die, and SlickLogin is trying to help kill it. Launching into closed beta in the Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield today, SlickLogin lets you log into a website on your computer by holding your phone within a few inches of it. Here’s the idea: as a user, you’d go to whatever SlickLogin-enabled site you’d like to log in to. Tap the login button, hold your phone up close to…

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Apple iPhone Mobile

Alleged iPhone 5S render shows new home button / ‘Touch ID sensor’

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler We’re just a few hours away from Apple’s big iPhone press conference, andNowhereelse.fr has just posted this render (from a “very reliable” source) that claims to show the iPhone 5S. The most notable change shown is of course, the home button, seemingly minus the usual squarish target and called the “Touch ID sensor”. That is expected, considering repeated rumors (check out our roundup) including an apparent confirmation tonight from the Wall Street Journal, that Apple’s…

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Business Mobile

EE’s ‘Swap’ brings another option for chronic phone-changers

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent If you’re the type to regard your six month-old handset like a relic from the stone age (and believe us, we are), then you’ve now got another option with EE’s Swap program. UK customers can now trade in their smartphones six months or later into their 18 or 24 month plans starting at £49. That appears to be EE’s attempt to catch up to plans like O2’s Refresh and JUMP from Phones 4u,…

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