Industry

NSA’s Alexander asks telecom industry to trust him

The agency needs to restore trust in order to defend the U.S. against cyberthreats, the director says

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Google cozies up to Apple developers with cloud platform

A version of Mobile Backend Starter for iOS is now available

MediaTek wants to crash Qualcomm’s party by powering LTE, 64-bit smartphones

The company said it will help drive down costs by bringing competition to a market where Qualcomm rules

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Firefox OS gets performance boost, wider distribution

Phones running Firefox OS will soon also be available in Germany, Brazil and other countries

Apple to reveal new iPads Oct. 22

Reports by AllThingD tech blog and others peg the launch event as in sync with 2012's debut of iPad Mini

Your car is about to go open source

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones

Three lessons from Netflix on how to live in the cloud

Netflix is one of the biggest cloud users in the world, but even for this company not everything is in the cloud

Shutdown could delay government’s patching of IE, Windows and .NET flaws

Federal desktops, servers are vulnerable to new threats when they are turned back on, analysts say