Category: Industry News

FBI Unlocks iPhone, Justice Department Drops Case Against Apple

Without the assistance of Apple developers, the FBI has announced that they have accessed the data on San Bernadino terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone. In a subsequent filing, the Department of Justice has announced that they are dropping their court order against Apple, which sought to compel Apple developers to comply with the FBI’s request for access to the device’s data.

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Department of Defense Standardizes on Windows 10

Windows 10 is enjoying a big boost, thanks to the US Department of Defense. This week, the DoD announced a new initiative for all Department agencies using Microsoft Operating Systems, which aims to begin deploying Windows 10 as a standard OS. Approximately four million systems will be moved to Windows 10 over the next 12 months.

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Update: Comcast Says Most Outages Have Been Restored

The Comcast service outage that affected customers across the country this morning into the early afternoon has been mostly resolved, according to a statement issued by Comcast. Network engineers were alerted to nationwide service outages this morning and are continuing to work on localized outages. However, most of the major affected areas have had their service restored as of 3 P.M. EST.

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The Samsung-Nvidia Patent Retaliation Heats Up

Samsung and Nvidia are still having it out in court over Nvidia’s GPU technology, which they say Samsung infringed upon in their Galaxy smartphone line. However, after they were cleared of wrongdoing, Samsung fired back with four of their own patents and a suit alleging that Nvidia used their memory chip technology in production of graphics cards.

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