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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Washington and Beijing have been accusing each other of  hacking and other cybersecurity violations, raising concerns that U.S. firms selling network or computer equipment in China could be caught in the crossfire. But U.S. technology firm Dell, which is the largest  vendor of computer servers in China, says its business there hasn’t been hurt. Motorcyclists ride past ‘Unit 61398′, a secretive Chinese military unit, in the outskirts of Shanghai in February. The unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, a U.S. computer security company said.   REUTERS “We don’t see any impact on our business,” said Amit Midha, who heads Dell’s Asia Pacific operations. “We feel that this is something that is going to get worked through over time between the two countries.” Dell also sells PCs and storage products in China, as well as software and other technology services. The tensions over cybe...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban The Irish data privacy watchdog said it will take a broader look at  Facebook   FB   +2.26% ’s research practices.   Bloomberg Facebook’s psychological experiment on users’ emotions could cause more headaches for the social networking giant. The Irish data privacy watchdog said it will take a broader look at Facebook’s research practices, including previous research activity, to review the company’s use of personal user information, after a paper published in June  showed how Facebook manipulated  the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users to see the effect on people’s emotions. “We will be examining more closely the uses that Facebook is making of personal data for research purposes,” Billy Hawkes, the data protection commissioner for Ireland, told the Journal. Like several large American tech companies, Facebook’s European headquarters are in Dublin. Irish and U.K. data-protection...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban An XC30 supercomputer from Cray. A much bigger machine from the company is being installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.   Cray Inc. Cray  Inc. CRAY   -5.21%  will develop a supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The deal, worth $174 million, is one of the largest contracts in Cray’s history. The supercomputer, named Trinity, is projected to be one of the fastest in the world when it’s built at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The NNSA, part of the Department of Energy, manages the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, a responsibility that includes running virtual simulations testing the stockpile’s safety, security, reliability and performance. “They have to simulate the stockpile and understand how the weapons age, and as they develop new weapons, how they will work,” Cray CEO Peter Ungaro told CIO Journal. Mr. Ungaro said he could not say whether the supercom...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Message for Southeast Asia’s brick-and-mortar retailers: E-commerce companies could soon be eating your lunch. That’s according to a recent study by  UBS   , which showed the region’s consumers are already flocking to e-commerce sites at the expense of traditional retailers’ platforms. Internet penetration in the populous region is higher than many assume, and will soon skyrocket thanks to the increasing use of low-cost smartphones and the availability of mobile Web connections, according UBS’s head of research and strategy in Thailand, Raymond Maguire, who authored the report. That threatens traditional retailers, since Southeast Asia’s consumers are already visiting online retailers 41 times for every single visit to traditional platforms, despite obstacles such as poor retail logistics systems and limited credit card usage. Online retailers, which have already gained market share on brick and ...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban The Line messaging app, shown here in a February demonstration, is becoming a hacker target.   Bloomberg News Hackers are targeting users of the mobile-phone messaging application Line, according to the company and Japanese police. Tokyo-based Line Corp. said that in late May it received a report of a hacking case for the first time since introducing the app in June 2011. The  popular app , which enables users to make free voice calls and send free messages, has more than 480 million registered users, the company says. By mid-June, the number of reported cases rose past 300, a Line spokeswoman said. In a typical scam, hackers pretend to be the owner of the account and ask friends to buy prepaid cards on their behalf. Police in Tokyo and Osaka have issued  warnings to users , telling them to keep their usernames and passwords secret. Police in Osaka said 23 reports of hacking have been f...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Vidyo’s Ofer Shapiro   Vidyo Vidyo CEO Ofer Shapiro says his company has been taking in revenue for six years, enough time for many companies to start funding operations with sales alone. But he’s not shy about going back to investors. The videoconferencing specialist on Friday is announcing a $20 million infusion–Vidyo’s Series E round–to bring the total raised since its founding in 2005 to $139 million. Shapiro says the announcement should not be interpreted as a sign the 300-person company could not sustain itself. The point is, rather, that there are new opportunities that call out for spending right away. “This just shows that we are very, very committed to investing in this area,” Shapiro says. The Hackensack, N.J., company is known for apps and server software to let all kinds of devices engage in video communications. While many people think about business-oriented videoconferencing, Shapiro s...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban For  Samsung Electronics   005930.SE   -1.68% , the latest delay in its efforts to sell a smartphone running the  Tizen operating system  marks yet another setback for Samsung’s homegrown alternative to Android. Bloomberg News Last month, at an event in San Francisco, J.D. Choi, Samsung’s lead man on the Tizen project, held up a smartphone and said that the device, the Samsung Z, would go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of the year. The official launch was to come at Thursday’s event for Tizen developers in Moscow, complete with market-ready products. But, in an echo of Samsung’s most recent failure to launch a Tizen smartphone — in Japan  earlier this year  — the launch was canceled just days earlier. Samsung provided no concrete date for the rollout of the commercial version of the phone at the developer summit but said in a statement Thursday that “the smartphon...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Data scientist—a new occupation that blends business savvy, mathematical wizardry and computer know-how—is data analytics’ career of the moment. Currently boasting superstar status in the corporate world, these number crunchers find hidden insights in large, complex sets of data that don't typically mesh. While demand for data scientists is growing across many industries, some businesses are going all out to shore up their data militia. Anyone looking for a career in data science may want to consider these four industries in particular—they’re hiring. Agriculture Relying on sensors in farm machinery, in soil and on planes flown over fields, precision agriculture is an emerging practice in which growing crops is directed by data covering everything from soil conditions to weather patterns to commodity pricing. “Precision agriculture helps you optimize yield and avoid major mistakes,” says Daniel Castro, direct...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has added a new function to its mobile shopping and payment applications that allows people to check the authenticity of drugs by scanning the packages with smartphone cameras. REUTERS China’s pharmaceutical market is growing , but so is the potential market for fake or substandard drugs. This week, the state-run  Xinhua news agency reported  that China’s drug administration has warned consumers about fake cancer drugs being sold online. Alibaba’s Tmall shopping site hosts storefronts for major Chinese drugstore chains, but one of the challenges of selling drugs online is lack of trust. The new feature, available on Alibaba’s Mobile Taobao shopping app and the Alipay Wallet payment app, could address consumers’ – and Beijing’s – concerns about the authenticity and safety of drugs sold by online retailers. Using the same feature, consumers can also scan the pac...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Michael Acton Smith, CEO and founder of children’s entertainment company Mind Candy ,the creators of Moshi Monsters.   Jason Alden for The Wall Street Journal. The chief executive officer of British children’s entertainment company Mind Candy is stepping down as the company tries to crack the difficult mobile children’s games market. Michael Acton Smith, 39, who has run the company for 10 years and become an icon of the London tech scene, said he will step down when the company finds a new chief executive. Mr. Smith, known to fans as Mr. Moshi, posted the news in a  YouTube video . He sat on a couch in front of a wall decorated with colorful Moshi characters, with a pile of notebooks at his side he said were “filled with ideas and sketches and scribbles and doodles” for new stories and characters. He spoke directly to the camera for nearly three-and-a-half minutes. “I’ve been doing some deep thinki...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Carly Zakin, left, and Danielle Weisberg are co-founders of theSkimm.   Sophie Elgort As morning television news shows struggle to build loyal audiences of women who once started their days with Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Erma Bombeck, two young former NBC News producers have quietly built a following for their morning news service, theSkimm. TheSkimm is a daily email newsletter that is transmitted to subscribers weekday mornings at about 6 a.m. Eastern Time. It delivers the news of the day along with a short explanation of the context and import in a just-us-girls voice that manages neither to patronize news junkies nor alienate infrequent readers. Earlier this week, for example, it presented this  under its Quote of the Day rubric : “‘I think it’s my job to work with every president –if she is, regrettably, if she obtains the presidency’ — Sen.  John McCain  (R-AZ) yesterday, on Hillz ...