The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, April 2
Obama authorizes sanctions for hackers... Facebook Riffs on video apps... Uber takes its fight to Brussels... and more tech news
Obama authorizes sanctions for hackers... Facebook Riffs on video apps... Uber takes its fight to Brussels... and more tech news
Microsoft teased the Surface Pro today, hinting that the company will soon announce an on-sale date for its second tablet.
Microsoft's Surface RT tablet sold 1 million units in the fourth quarter, fewer than expected, according to a UBS analyst.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has largely blamed UBS’ computerised risk management systems for failing to control the £1.4 billion losses incurred by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli.
Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli will not enter a plea for at least a month on the alleged rogue trading case that led to the bank losing £1.3. billion, a London court heard yesterday.
UBS has insisted its IT systems did detect unusual and unauthorised trading activity, before rogue trader Kweku Adoboli ran up a $2 billion (£1.3 billion) loss on the bank's derivatives desk.
A rogue trader at UBS has been arrested after allegedly circumventing systems and controls and losing the bank approximately $2 billion (£1.26 billion).
Businesses are "clearly not" able to use the public <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/cloud-computing/">cloud</a> for all of their enterprise requirements, according to UBS bank's security CTO.
An analyst at Swiss bank UBS has sent an accidental email that caused the bank to be dropped by a major client, General Motors.
Telecom is promising to deliver fully unrestricted broadband wholesale services from as early as September.
The latest additions to corporate secure-WAN toolkits are USB tokens that authenticate and encrypt traffic, tighten security and make it simpler for users to make connections versus using standard VPN technology.
Two of the country's largest ISPs, Callplus and Ihug, have decided call off commercial negotiations with Telecom over wholesale DSL and have separately applied to the Commerce Commission for a regulated service instead.
Telecom has revisited its commercial unbundled bitstream service (CUBS) offer to ISPs following revelations about the service's specifications.
In the wake of writer Rachel McAlpine’s tale (Computerworld, February 6), another disgruntled customer has surfaced complaining of confusion and delays in changing telco service.
Telecom wants ISPs to take up a new UBS deal that offers faster upload speeds instead of seeking a regulated service.