BlackBerry shares soar 5% after reporting Q2 2017 earnings and the end of hardware manufacturing

Wall Street got some of the news it was expecting from BlackBerry today. Last week, we passed along a report from investment blog The Motley Fool, which correctly predicted that the manufacturer would close its hardware division on September 28th. Leaving hardware to others was good enough news to send BlackBerry’s shares soaring nearly 5% this morning to $8.36.

BlackBerry also reported its second quarter earnings and you can see why it is dropping hardware manufacturing. GAAP software and services revenue reached $334 million for the three month period, rising a strong 89% year-over-year. … – Source

BlackBerry shares soar 5% after reporting Q2 2017 earnings and the end of hardware manufacturing

Pippa Middleton's hacked iCloud photos banned from publication

London — The publication of photographs allegedly stolen from Pippa Middleton has been banned by the High Court in the UK.

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The sister of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, took civil action against a “person or persons unknown” after her iCloud account was said to have been hacked.

The information retrieved is believed to include 3,000 personal photos of the royal family and of Middleton with her fiancé James Matthews.

The lawyer representing the couple, Adam Wolanski, …

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IBM Watson's new job: third grade math teacher

IBM’s famous supercomputer has accomplished many, many things these past years, from making movie trailers to saving a person’s life. Now, it’s also helping teachers make lesson plans by powering Teacher Advisor, a program IBM developed with the Amer… – Source

IBM Watson's new job: third grade math teacher

Apple to send security update to strengthen iOS 10's weak backup encryption

It turns out that the local encrypted backups on iOS 10, the ones that are created in iTunes, are not as secure as they should be. According to researchers at Moscow based software developer Elcomsoft, iOS 10 uses an older password protection algorithm. The Russian software firm was working on an iOS 10 update to its password cracking PhoneBreaker software, when it discovered that Apple uses a different password verification system for iOS 10 that skips certain security checks. That allows a hacker to try out passwords 2,500 times faster compared to the old system used on iOS 9. This type … – Source

Apple to send security update to strengthen iOS 10's weak backup encryption

Moscow will replace Microsoft's products with local offerings

Microsoft might lose a whole city of customers in Russia. According to Bloomberg, Moscow will begin replacing Redmond’s products with homegrown software as a result of Vladimir Putin’s urging to stop depending on foreign tech. Artem Yermolaev, the ci… – Source

Moscow will replace Microsoft's products with local offerings

New BlackBerry DTEK60 photos reveal a fingerprint scanner, curved sides

Not many months after releasing the mid-range DTEK50, BlackBerry is now getting ready to introduce a brand new Android smartphone. Apparently called BlackBerry DTEK60, the new handset should become BlackBerry’s third Android-based device, after the Priv and the aforementioned DTEK50.

Spotted earlier today in a low-res image, the BlackBerry DTEK60 can now be seen in a series of press photos that show all of its sides. Compared to the DTEK50, the DTEK60 has a more refined design, but the two devices are obviously not that different, as both are manufactured by TCL (which also makes Alcatel … – Source

New BlackBerry DTEK60 photos reveal a fingerprint scanner, curved sides

Google Allo’s limitations explained in one word: “India”

The Google Logo for India Independence Day 2014. (credit: Google Doodles)

Google’s new instant messaging client Allo doesn’t seem like a compelling product. Allo is missing many of the basic features you might expect in an instant messaging app: it only works with one device at a time, it doesn’t work on a desktop or laptop computer, it doesn’t support tablets very well, it doesn’t use a Google account, and it doesn’t support SMS. Allo has had a curiously incomplete product launch, and many Google users are left wondering what the company was thinking.

Allo’s limitations are deal breakers for many people in the hyper-connected developed world, but what if you’re not in a developed country? Google hasn’t explicitly come out and said so, but Allo’s features and Google’s actions around the launch of Allo all point to it being targeted at developing countries, and one developing country in particular: India.

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Google Allo’s limitations explained in one word: “India”

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IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain

While the gears of research are turning fast developing new methods of machine intelligence, another, perhaps more impactful, trend is brewing in the field. Open source frameworks like Apache Spark are hitting their stride at the ideal time to put data analytics in the hands of the business development analyst without forgetting about the needs of the data scientist. IBM’s new… Read More

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IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain

Gusto rushes to release new features ahead of rival Zenefits

In the world of HR and payment software, things are heating up this fall. In the one corner: Zenefits, the high-flying software company that admitted to having an array of compliance issues and that asked its cofounder to resign as CEO earlier this year. The company has been heavily promoting an all-new, fully complaint, next-generation version of its offerings that it plans to unveil on… Read More

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Gusto rushes to release new features ahead of rival Zenefits