Amazon has released new service to make voice and video calls and share screen. Called Chime, the service is aimed at business users. It directly competes with well-known players such as Skype, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, Zoom, and Cisco’s WebEx, among…
Iconic Feature Phone Nokia 3310 Coming Back this Month, VentureBeat Says
The iconic Nokia 3310 feature phone is all set for a return, according to a report. VentureBeat adds: HMD Global Oy, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to market phones under the storied Nokia brand, is planning to announce four…
LinuxQuestions Users Choose Their Favorite Distro: Slackware
ZDNet summarizes some of the surprises in this year’s poll on LinuxQuestions, “one of the largest Linux groups with 550,000 member”. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The winner for the most popular desktop distribution? Slackware…! Yes, one of the…
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew?
Open source guru Eric Raymond turns 60 this year, prompting this question from an anonymous reader: Eric Raymond’s newest writing project is “Things Every Hacker Once Knew,” inspired by the day he learned that not every programmer today’s knows the…
34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia
Researchers used machine learning to analyze every single comment left on Wikipedia in 2015. An anonymous reader shares their results: 34 “highly toxic users” were responsible for 9% of all the personal attacks in the comments on Wikipedia, according to…
Angry Birds Is the Most-Banned Mobile App By Businesses
Barb Darrow, writing for Fortune: Corporate IT pros face the unenviable task of trying to protect valuable data from threats that change all the time. One vector of attack is clearly smartphones and tablets that employees use both for work…
Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated
An anonymous reader shares a MercuryNews report: Job growth in the tech industry used to zoom like a race car, but these days, hiring by this principal driver of the Bay Area’s economy chugs along more like a family SUV….
Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again)
Building on anti-harassment tools announced in November, Twitter is now “trying to shake its reputation as a haven for online harassment” with still more new internal algorithms and features, reports CNN. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The changes include…
Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist
An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: Finland’s basic income experiment is unworkable, uneconomical and ultimately useless. Plus, it will only encourage some people to work less. That’s not the view of a hard core Thatcherite, but of the country’s biggest trade…
Trend Micro's Own Cybersecurity Blog Gets Hacked
Mickeycaskill quotes Silicon: Just to illustrate that you can never be too careful, cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro has confirmed that one of the blogs it uses to communicate with customers was itself the victim of a content spoofing attack. The…