For Prime Day only (today), Amazon has discounted its series of Dash buttons down from $4.99 to just $0.99, and will credit you $4.99 after the first time you use it. The Dash button is a simple gadget. Just hook it up to a frequently ordered product, and the next time you need to order it, just press the button. Amazon will send you a notification that the order is being processed, which gives you a chance to cancel it if needed. And Amazon will not ship again until the item has been successfully delivered regardless of how many times the button gets pushed in the meantime. To learn more about the dash button, and to take advantage of this profitable discount, visit the dash button product page on Amazon sometime today. If you're curious about other deals today, there are over 100,000 more you can explore via Amazon's Prime Day Deals page. You need to be a Prime member, but a 30 day Prime trial (available here) will work just the same, and you can cancel whenever you'd like.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
With this Prime Day deal you save $120 off the Toshiba Chromebook 2 . The Chromebook 2 offers brilliant performance for an outstanding experience on and off the web, plus entertainment-inspired features, style and awesome battery life—all so you can get things done faster, while staying entertained from anywhere. It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 550 reviewers (read reviews). Amazon indicates that its $400 list price has been reduced by $120 to just $279.99.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
There are over 100,000 deals happening today on Amazon for Prime Day, so we've rounded up some of the better deals you'll find on phones, phone accessories and wearables right here in one spot. As a reminder, Prime Day is for Amazon Prime members only, but a 30 day trial (if you sign up here) will work just the same and you can cancel before you get charged.
$100 off LG G5 unlocked smartphone
$150 off Nextbit unlocked smartphone
Save $50 on ZTE Axon Pro 64 GB unlocked smartphone
Save 36% on Spire Mindfulness and Activity Tracker for iOS
$129 for Republic Wireless Moto G (3rd Gen) 8GB
$39.99 for the LG Volt 2 from Virgin Mobile
$79.99 for FreedomPop Supernova 4G LTE/3G Hotspot - Black with 1 GB free data
Garmin GPSMAP 64s Worldwide with High-Sensitivity GPS
Prime Members save 30% on BlackBerry Passport unlocked smartphones
iPhone 6 Case, Spigen® Slim Armor CS With Card Holder & Advanced Shock Absorption
EYN Products Battery Charger Case for iPhone 6
LifeProof FRE POWER iPhone 6 ONLY (4.7" Version) Waterproof Battery Case
21% off Huawei Nexus 6P 5.7" Android 6.0 Unlocked Smartphone, 64 GB (U. Continue reading
Discounted by 50% as part of Prime Day, Bose Sound Sport in-ear headphones deliver deep, clear sound for the music you love, with a durable design that stands up to the rigors of your day. Exclusive TriPort technology provides crisp highs and natural-sounding lows, while acoustic ports are positioned to resist sweat and weather, and hydrophobic cloth keeps moisture out. Proprietary Stay Hear tips conform to your ears' shape, so they stay comfortably in place all day long. They even include a matching carrying case for storage and added protection. Check this deal out on Amazon now.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Private Internet Access, a provider of virtual private network services, has shut down its Russian gateways and won’t do business in the region any longer, as it believes that some of its Russian servers were seized by the government for not following new internet surveillance rules.The provider, which holds that it does not log traffic or session data, said it had likely fallen foul of new Russian rules that require that providers must log local traffic for up to a year.“We believe that due to the enforcement regime surrounding this new law, some of our Russian Servers (RU) were recently seized by Russian Authorities, without notice or any type of due process,” the provider’s team said in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The next time you chat with someone on Cisco Systems’ Spark messaging service, that someone may not be a co-worker -- or even a person. Welcome to the world of bots.On Monday at the Cisco Live conference, Cisco said it’s working with the messaging company Gupshup so more developers can bring their bots into Spark. It also introduced a partnership with Api.ai, a natural-language software company, in part to help developers build interfaces where users can just talk to bots.Bots aren’t brand-new to Spark, but Gupshup prides itself on its chat-bot development platform, which is designed to make it easy to build bots and make them available through popular communications channels. The list already includes Facebook, Skype, Twitter and Slack.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
In addition to recently publicized hacks of electronic auto ignitions with laptops, car thieves have several other high-tech techniques they’ve put to use—or will soon unleash upon their victims, according to stolen vehicle recovery firm CalAmp LoJack Corp.The lawlessness includes portable scanner boxes that exploit electronic key fobs; identity theft, where the Personally Identifiable Information data stored within the vehicle and in the vehicle computer is stolen; and car cloning, which is when a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is faked, allowing new documents to be produced.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The creator of Megaupload plans on reviving the infamous file sharing site on Jan. 20, five years after the U.S. government shut it down.“It will be better than the original and it will feel like home,” tweeted Megaupload’s creator Kim Dotcom on Sunday.He made the announcement as U.S. authorities are trying to extradite him to face copyright infringement charges. In 2012, the U.S. government pulled the plug on his file-sharing site, which was accused of helping to distribute pirated music and video.Dotcom, who is based in New Zealand, has appealed his extradition to the U.S., and a court hearing is set for August.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today touted "digital transformation" during a 30,000-foot-view speech before thousands of resellers, the executive in charge of the firm's global partner group got down to dollars and cents."It starts for us with our mission. Everything we do, every product we build, every decision we make, in even our partner programs, is grounded in our mission, to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more," Nadella said shortly after he stepped onto the stage at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC) in Toronto Monday.Nadella's "empower every person..." phrase has been his go-to description of Microsoft's strategy since June 2015, when the CEO unveiled the mission statement in an all-hands email.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Code names for operating systems have become “de rigeur” in the industry but, as far as I can figure out, it wasn’t until 2001 after Apple’s marketing people started using code names as part of their branding (OS X "Cheetah”) that other OS vendors adopted the practice.
Note that it wasn’t that other companies didn’t have code names for their products, it was just that they just didn’t use them as part of product marketing until Apple did (for example, how many people know that Windows XP was code named “Whistler”?).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Golfer Jordan Spieth announced this morning that he will not play in the Olympic Games because of concerns over the Zika virus, meaning the world’s top four players in his sport have now opted out of going to Brazil. Savannah Guthrie, who hosts Today on NBC, will not be there either. The golfers are self-employed and need answer to no one, while Guthrie is pregnant. All enjoy the power of celebrity.But what of the rank-and-file employees who work for major technology companies sending large contingents to Brazil to provide services and show off their wares? Are they being asked – or compelled -- to ignore the risks? Conversely, could women of child-bearing age be denied the opportunity to go at an employer’s discretion? We asked a number of vendors and an expert in employment law.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Last month Microsoft introduced Flow, a service that allows you to create conditional connections between its business services. It supported both Microsoft products, such as Office, Office 365 and SharePoint, and non-Microsoft services, such as Twitter, Slack, Google Drive and Dropbox, letting you build conditional actions.For example, you could have a text alert generated when you received an email, automatically pull tweets into an Office app or get Slack notifications when a file is uploaded to a Dropbox folder.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
GE and Microsoft have teamed up to bring the industrial giant's Predix platform-as-a-service offering to the Azure cloud, the two companies announced Monday. It's a move that helps add to the portfolio of Internet of Things services available through Microsoft's cloud platform, at a time when the company is pushing its service for IoT applications. The announcement came during Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, where GE CEO Jeff Immelt talked with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on stage.Predix is a platform-as-a-service offering that's designed for building applications that have industrial uses. Predix services that developers can tap into include asset management and anomaly detection offerings, among others. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Alfresco Software was born a decade ago as an open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider and the company has enjoyed growing success with major corporations and government agencies struggling to deal with an explosion of information. More recently, Alfresco jumped into the business process management (BPM) market and its integration of ECM and BPM is gaining from enterprise buyers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
As Pokemon Go continues to be a viral craze, the makers of the game have dealt with the service going down – presumably from peak loads on the game.Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has offered a solution: The cloud.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Armed crooks use Pokemon Go to lure and rob victims +In a post on Twitter from over the weekend, Vogels implied that the game’s makers could use Amazon Web Services' public IaaS cloud to help alleviate intermittent service issues. "Dear cool folks at @NianticLabs please let us know if there is anything we can do to help!" Vogels Tweeted. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
If you're running a WordPress website and you have the hugely popular All in One SEO Pack plug-in installed, it's a good idea to update it as soon as possible. The latest version released Friday fixes a flaw that could be used to hijack the site's admin account.The vulnerability is in the plug-in's Bot Blocker functionality and can be exploited remotely by sending HTTP requests with specifically crafted headers to the website.The Bot Blocker feature is designed to detect and block spam bots based on their user agent and referer header values, according to security researcher David Vaartjes, who found and reported the issue.If the Track Blocked Bots setting is enabled -- it's not by default -- the plug-in will log all requests that were blocked and will display them on an HTML page inside the site's admin panel.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The families of victims of five recent attacks in Israel are suing Facebook for more than US$1 billion, saying the social media site helps terrorists plan their violence.
The lawsuit, filed in a New York court, accuses Facebook of helping Palestinian group Hamas recruit members, communicate, and plan attacks. The U.S. government designated Hamas a terrorist organization in 1995.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are family members of five terrorist attacks in Israel in the past two years, the most recent being a March 8 stabbing attack in Tel Aviv that killed 29-year-old U.S. citizen Taylor Force. Four of the people who died in the attacks were U.S. citizens, and another U.S. citizen was injured.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
SWIFT is bringing in additional security support after a series of high-profile bank heists and attempted bank heists conducted via its financial transaction network.The company has hired two security firms, UK-based BAE Systems and Fox-IT Security of the Netherlands, to help its customers strengthen their security, it said Monday.SWIFT's network itself has not been breached in the recent attacks, but bank systems connected to it have been hacked in a number of high-profile incidents over the last year, the most spectacular of which almost led to the loss of US$1 billion from Bangladesh Bank.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
It’s not only cyber thugs interested in the Pokemon Go app, but crooks in real life as well. Armed robbers were reportedly using the app’s geolocation feature to lure victims to secluded locations.The “robbery part made sense” to the cops, but not the augmented reality game in which players walk around in the real world searching for Pokemon. Players can drop a Lure model in a real world location which last for 30 minutes to attract players to that location. O’Fallon Missouri Police Sgt. Phil Hardin told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch “that ‘younger, geeky officers’ had to fill in their colleagues about some of what the victim was describing.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Switching networking providers is no small task but it wasn't really an option for Pattonair CIO Brian Long. Growing 16 percent year-over-year, the provider of nuts and bolts for airline engines was regularly adding new offices worldwide to serve its customers. It needed to have these new sites up and running quickly but its MPLS network provider Verizon was not willing to move at the speed Pattonair required, Long says.
Pattonair CIO Brian Long.
"It was a really good service once [the network circuit] was in," Long says of Verizon's MPLS service. "But if you wanted to be a dynamic business and quickly open up new locations and change capacities it was just a nightmare." Long says he soon got the sense that "we were an account number in their database and we just couldn't get the support that we needed."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here