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Library of Congress Brings Digital Rights Rules Into Modern Era

"We're pleased with the new exemption for jailbreaking," said Mitch Stoltz, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation "The Library of Congress eliminated the arbitrary and increasingly meaningless distinction between smartphones and tablets, and gave some leg...

CISA Passes Senate Despite Privacy Advocates’ Fear and Loathing

"Very few companies are adequately staffed with employees that have the skills to respond to major security events," Laing told the E-Commerce Times. "There's a high likelihood that in the event of a major incident, users' data will be exposed." Under CISA, those victims "would have no protection and no recourse for their exposed data."

OPINION

Why Dell-EMC Won’t Follow in HP-Compaq’s Footsteps

In addition, Dell has the best acquisition-and-merger process in the industry. Rather than carving up the acquired company and then surgically attaching the best parts to Dell, Dell keeps the company separate as a standalone entity and simply looks for common synergies -- like supply chain, which will benefit EMC -- and it both identifies the key assets, including staff, and protects them rather than shutting them down. ...

LINUX PICKS AND PANS

MuseScore Can Turn Songwriters Into Maestros

WYSIWYG is an ideal music score typesetter. It has an unlimited number of staves, allows up to four voices or staffs, and makes it easy to enter notes using mouse, keyboard or midi Getting Started...

Researcher’s Demo Sheds Doubt on Fitbit Security

"There are so many manufacturers making electronic items out there, and so few of them employ security experts," Ratliff said. "In most cases, it's a general engineering staff trying to put together a security solution for a product. That's why this issue will come up again and again -- not just for wearables, but for any kind of IoT application." ...

Healthcare Sector Security Woefully Weak, Survey Says

A shortage of cybersecurity staff and expertise concerned 35 percent of technical respondents, and 34 percent of tech respondents said their organization performed vulnerability testing only once a year Nontechnical respondents were of two minds about breaches: Severnty-seven ...

OPINION

Are Your Sales Tools Turning A-Performers Into B-Performers?

This may stem from systemic product or service problems, but it's more likely that some basic sales processes are neglected, which can optimize sales' performance. Here are three of the most important questions to ask about your sales staff: Quotas and Territories...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Federal Agencies Warming Up to Big Data

"Government agencies definitely need outside help when it comes to implementing big data solutions, so we would agree with the survey results. Civilian agencies seem to largely have a problem in keeping internal data scientists on staff," immixGroup's Meloni said "If I had to ...

Upvoted Tells the Story Behind Reddit’s Best Stories

Reddit earlier this week announced the launch of Upvoted, a new publication featuring original content from a team of staff editors and writers Reddit has more than 202 million monthly users. Its podcast have been downloaded more than 1.6 million times since January, and its n...

Musk Draws Barbs for Mean-Spirited Dig at Apple

Musk dismissed claims that Apple had poached staff, telling Handelsblatt that those who couldn't cut it at Tesla would go to work for Apple instead -- and he added that he wasn't kidding Musk added that he didn't take Apple seriously as a competitor in the automobile market.

Verizon Supercookie to Let Advertisers Gorge on Customer Data

"We are going to be talking to Verizon about this," Brian Wesolowski, chief of staff at theCenter for Democracy and Technology, told the E-Commerce Times Verizon Defends Itself...

ANALYST CORNER

Warning: Think Twice Before Updating to iOS 9

I asked where my wife's settings, apps, photos and data were, and the Apple staff told me they had made a temporary fix. When Apple comes out with an update to the update, I should get all the data back. What happened was an inconvenience, but we wouldn't lose anything permanently...

OPINION

Carly Fiorina vs. Donald Trump: The Fascinating Difference

When Carly did compete with Steve, Steve was backed by a very focused company staffed by people who likely would have sacrificed their kids for the guy. Carly ran a dysfunctional company with people that mostly didn't seem to like or respect her. At the heart of this was a ...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

US Agencies Getting the Hang of Doing More With Less

"Contractors often have very difficult staffing issues to consider. Agencies expect to utilize the contractor's A-Team, but pricing parameters may mean that contractors can only afford to propose their C-Teams. Also, contractors have to contend with increasing reporting requirements, which add to implementation costs, she pointed out...

EXPERT ADVICE

Customer Support in the Digital Age: Collaborative, Personal

One thing all of these approaches to delivering service have in common is that they are far more effective in enabling collaboration. It's smart to give customers access to a variety of support channels, but it's crucial to make sure that all support agents, as well as other staff, have access to the same database of customer information.

Amazon Firing Spree Follows Fire Phone Flop

The purged staffers reportedly worked at Lab126, Amazon's secretive Silicon Valley-based hardware development center Amazon also scaled back or killed off several other Lab126 projects, including a large-screen tablet, according to the report, and it reorganized the center to ...

Malvertising Headache Swells to Migraine Proportions

Attackers can set ads to strike only at particular times and geographies. They can delay a malicious ad until after an ad network examines and approves it, for example, or until the holidays, when Web traffic is high and advertising staffs thin Armored Malverts...

Cyber-Posse Aims to Round Up Ashley Madison Hackers

They have received full cooperation from other law enforcement groups around the world, Toronto Police Service Acting Staff Superintendent Bryce Evans told reporters. Fallout From the Crime...

OPINION

Dearth of a Salesman: Does Technology Erode Sales Talent?

If the balance between technology and training is correct, it will pay off for your business in a host of ways: greater sales performance; happier sales staff; reduced sales staff churn; and a greater payoff on your technology investments.

AT&T Went Above and Beyond for NSA, Say Snowden Docs

"The new reports underscore the incredibly close collaboration between the NSA and the country's major telecommunications companies, which has allowed the NSA to embed itself in the very fabric of the Internet, and exposes the communications of innocent Americans to routine spying," American Civil Liberties Union Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey told the E-Commerce Times...

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