Datamation Staff

FOX News : Hackers associated with the hactivist group AntiSec have posted 1 million Apple Unique Device IDs online, and they claim to have more than 11 million more, along with corresponding user names, phone numbers and addresses. Although the device IDs alone don’t reveal any personal information about the people who own the Apple […]

USA Today: A new study conducted by Vonage for USA Today finds that people are increasingly abandoning voice mail and using text messages and e-mail instead. The Internet phone company reports that the number of voice mails left on its systems has declined 8 percent since last July. In addition, the number of retrieved mails […]

Reuters: Unnamed “people familiar with the matter” tell Reuters that Google CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke on the phone last week about a variety of intellectual property matters, including their mobile patent disagreements. Page and Cook haven’t reached a deal, but they have planned additional talks, the sources say. Lower-level executives […]

Computerworld: Oracle has released an out-of-band update for Java that addresses a zero-day vulnerability. Earlier this week, researchers went public with news of ongoing attacks that exploited the bug, leading some to recommend that organizations disable Java on their networks. However, security experts from Rapid7 and other firms have confirmed that the update is effective […]

The Register: A group of technology vendors led by Oracle and Red Hat have drafted a new set of cloud computing standards that they call Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP). The draft is aimed at encouraging interoperability among platform as a service (PaaS) offerings and specifies generic APIs for building, running, administering, monitoring and […]

TechCrunch: When you think of industry leaders in search technology, Walmart probably doesn’t come to mind, but the retailer has just rolled out a new search engine called Polaris that uses social networking and semantic features to boost sales at Walmart.com. In fact, the company claims Polaris makes it 10 to 15 percent more likely […]

Cnet: On the heels of a successful cyberattack at Saudi Arabian oil production firm Aramco, a natural gas producer in neighboring Qatar has also fallen prey to malware. RasGas, the second largest producer of liquified natural gas in the world, has confirmed that its desktop computer systems have been down since Monday because of the […]

BetaNews: Seventeen months after it first launched in the U.S., the Amazon Appstore is finally coming to parts of Europe. The alternative app store is now accessible from United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. According to the official statement, “Customers in the US have purchased millions of apps, games, in-app items and subscriptions since […]

All Things D: Amazon has temporarily halted sales of its popular Kindle Fire tablet, claiming the device is “sold out.” According to a press release, the tablet is Amazon’s best-selling product. In addition, the company claims the Fire has captured “22 percent of U.S. tablet sales.”  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos states, “This has been a […]

Gizmodo: The “geniuses” who staff Apple Stores are widely perceived to be the most helpful in the tech industry, but how do they get that way? Gizmodo has obtained a copy of the secret training handbook used during Apple’s two-week training program for new sales staff. The training sessions cover technical information, how to identify […]