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Hotel’s Robotic Butler Is Not Quite ‘Rosie’

Aloft Hotels this week announced the launch of a new, robotic "butler" at the company's Cupertino, Calif., location. Dubbed "A.L.O.," the new botlr, or robotic butler, is designed to help the hotel's human staff by delivering amenities to guest rooms A.L.O. comes professional...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Trade Agreements Push US IT Export Gains

The target audience is critical infrastructure owners and operators and cybersecurity staff, specifically those who have operational, managerial and policy experience and responsibilities for cybersecurity, technology, and standards development for critical infrastructure companies...

Twitter to Review Toothless Policies on Cyberharrassment

The staff of Jezebel have published an open letter to their parent company Gawker Media complaining about having received GIFs of violent pornography images in the discussion section of stories on the site. "None of us are paid enough to deal with this on a daily basis," the ...

Yahoo, Google Team Up to Fight Email Snoops

"I don't know how smart Google's algorithms are, but maybe they can figure out ads just from the subject line," Jeremy Gillula, a staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times In any event, Yahoo doesn't expect the inability to scan emai...

OPINION

Beacons Hit the Retail Spotlight

It will be open season for retailers as more apps are developed to take advantage of beacon technology. Sales staff will be equipped with beacon-enabled apps to better identify and help high-value customers; data eventually will be mined by them to learn not only which displays and offers work best, but also where and when they're most effective.

Russian Cybergang Stockpiles 1.2B Unique Stolen Credentials

"Unfortunately, there is currently a disconnect between IT departments, brand protection initiatives, marketing staff and security teams, which hinders such attempts at a holistic approach." Issues With the Hoi Polloi...

Apple’s Big Blue Dilemma

Apple will offer 24x7 premium AppleCare to enterprise customers, and IBM staff will provide field service Implications for BYOD...

Panasonic to Help Make Tesla’s Gigafactory Materialize

It will employ 6,500 staff Tesla and its partners will invest $4-$5 billion in the Gigafactory through 2020, Takeshita estimated....

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Retailers Harassed by Backoff Malware

July 31. Riverside Health System reports possible data breach putting at risk financial data for some 2,000 patients and all staff of the provider following the arrest of a former employee for stealing credit card information from cancer patients July 31. Irish bookmaker Paddy...

Cops Snag Child Pornography Suspect, Thanks to Gmail Scan

Google isn't alone in identifying and alerting law enforcement authorities about child porn found on its systems, according to Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "If fact, federal law requires them to report to law enforcement any actual...

Federal Judge Unswayed by Microsoft’s Objections to Data Demands

The ruling "suggests that courts can disregard the limits to traditional evidence gathering for digital data and leaves open the possibility [that] other courts interpreting ECPA and 'warrants' issued under ECPA can disregard other inherent limits to that power," Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Hackers Back to Their Old Tricks

July 23. Miguel Corzo, director of the information technology department and employee with the Maricopa county Community College District for 30 years, is dimissed by the district's governing board for negligence over a data breach that compromised personal information, including Social Security numbers and banking information, of 2.4 million current and former students, staff and vendors going back more than 30 years...

China Trumps Up Anti-Monopoly Charges Against Microsoft

The announcement comes days after SAIC officials reportedly raided Microsoft offices in four cities, seizing documents, emails and other data from servers and computers; copying the company's financial statements and contracts; and questioning some of its staff Microsoft faile...

EXPERT ADVICE

Bringing Retail Into the 21st Century

It's not just about selling -- it's also about empowering your sales force. Make your customers happy by giving your staff direct on-the-spot access to every kind of information a shopper might want. Make your staff more efficient by giving them a real-time view of the stock room, to avoid pointless trips and disappointed customers who waited for ages only to receive an apologetic smile instead of the product they want.

Chinese Turn the Screws on Microsoft

Officials of China's State Administration for Industry & Commerce reportedly have made unannounced visits to Microsoft offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu. They apparently questioned staff in at least one office There's speculation that the move is tied to Chi...

Yahoo’s in a Flurry Over Mobile Advertising

After the deal is closed, Flurry's staff will remain in their current locations, and the company's vision, mission and focus will remain unchanged. Yahoo's Efforts in Mobile...

Google to Search for the Meaning of Health

"Our body's chemistry moves gradually along a continuum from a state of health to a state of disease, and we only have observable symptoms when we're already far along that continuum," states a memo Google prepared for the media, sent to TechNewsWorld by Google staffer Katelin Jabbari...

Twitter’s ‘D’ in Diversity Reflects Broader Industry Failure

Those companies disclosed that they were between 62 percent and 70 percent male. Whites and Asians made up between 88 percent and 91 percent of their workforces. Black people accounted for just 2 percent of staff members at each of those four companies "I think diversity issue...

Black Hat Tor-Busting Talk Nixed

"My guess is the researchers performed their research by setting up a real Tor exit node and looking at the traffic coming out of it, as opposed to simulating an exit node and creating their own traffic to analyze," Jeremy Gillula, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told TechNewsWorld...

Judge Rules Police Can Stuff Entire Email Accounts Into Evidence Lockers

"One of our particular concerns with his opinion, and similar ones, is that it can end up letting police hold on to the entire content of a subject's email account long after they've found what they were looking for -- and in theory, they could go back and search that information again," Nate Wessler, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, told TechNewsWorld...

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