Industry

U.S. spy agencies adopt new IT approach

CIA's decision to use Amazon's cloud is part of a broader move among the government's 17 intelligence agencies to make the spy business more efficient

Trust issue looms large for tech companies capitalizing on personal data

Privacy issues may cause a stumbling block for companies capitalizing on a growing stream of user data

If you haven’t retired Windows XP and haven’t been fired yet, get busy

Security comes first, with a premium on speed upgrading to a supported Microsoft operating system

External disk storage market recovers from slump

EMC continues to dominate as shipments of disk storage systems for the fourth quarter topped 10.2 exabytes

Tablets coming back to earth after years of breakthrough growth

Tablet shipments are predicted to grow 19.3 percent in 2014 compared to last year, a signal that the rate of uptake of the devices is slowing

Review: Netgear’s ReadyData makes a splash with flash

Netgear's better, faster rack-mount NAS and iSCSI SAN makes the case for enterprise workloads with read and write caching and unlimited snapshots

CFOs say companies will hire more techies in 2014, but not in IT

Many CFOs are optimistic about jobs in tech-oriented companies, but the hiring picture for IT-specific positions remains poor

New crimeware tool Dendroid makes it easier to create Android malware

The tool can be used to add malicious functionality to legitimate applications, researchers from Symantec said

Man behind BITCOIN revealed — APPLE pushes accounting innovation — Nokia was BALLMER’s Waterloo — You own TOR’s vast darknet mall

Yahoo acquires social data visualization startup Vizify

Yahoo continues its string of acquisitions, adds a team of five persons from Vizify to its media organization in San Francisco