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How a dumb software glitch kept thousands from reaching 911

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Who ever thinks that their call to 911 would go unanswered? But in a terrifying incident this spring, thousands of Americans found themselves in need of help — and got none. For six hours, emergency services went dark for more than 11 million people across seven states. The entire state of Washington found itself disconnected from 911. The outage may have gone unnoticed by some, but for the more than 6,000 people trying to reach help, April 9 may well have been the scariest time of their lives. Read full article >>

Apple's iCloud targeted in man-in-the-middle attack in China

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Following the iPhone 6 launch in China, Apple’s iCloud service began facing a “man-in-the-middle” style attack in the country, in an apparent attempt to steal username and password information, according to an anti-censorship watchdog group.As of Monday, the attack was still ongoing, said GreatFire.org, which began noticing two days before that certain connections made to Apple’s iCloud site in China were no longer responding with a trusted digital certificate, putting them at risk of decryption.Man-in-the-middle attacks eavesdrop on communications by pretending to each party to be the one

IBM pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take over IBM's chip-making unit

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IBM will sell the semiconductor technologies unit that makes its Power processors to GlobalFoundries, paying the chip manufacturer about $1.3 billion to take two factories off its hands in a move to save money.
Like many old-school tech companies IBM has struggled to find its feet in a world where mobile devices and cloud services are becoming increasingly important. The company is under pressure to cut costs as well as find ways to halt falling revenues.

Oracle sued over employee no-poaching agreement with Google

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A former employee of Oracle has sued the company for allegedly conspiring with Google to prevent poaching of certain categories of managers from each other, in a bid to keep salaries low.Oracle’s restricted hiring agreement with Google was part of a bigger conspiracy by technology companies, located mainly in Silicon Valley, that prevented solicitation of each other’s managers, according to a class action complaint from Greg Garrison, who handled sales of Oracle’s Crystal Ball software from about December 2008 to June 2009.The tech companies put each other’s employees off-limits to other co

Chinese workers strike at Foxconn factory after HP cuts orders

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About 1,000 workers at a factory of manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group went on strike on Wednesday demanding better wages, after production orders from Hewlett-Packard were cut, according to a labor protection group.Foxconn had allegedly been reducing workers’ overtime at the factory, located in Chongqing, China, as a tactic to encourage employees to voluntarily quit and forfeit their severance pay, said New York-based China Labor Watch in an online posting.Many workers had relied on the overtime pay for the bulk of their earnings, the labor protection group said.

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