Amazon’s budget friendly Fire tablet may not be the most powerful option, but you can probably find a use for it somewhere in your life. Now, Amazon is making the $ 49.99 Fire tablet even easier to fit into your life by offering it in three...
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Amazon flip flops and will offer encryption on Fire devices come spring
Talk about a fast course correction.
Less than 48 hours after pundits and security experts began blasting Amazon for removing the option to encrypt data on Fire devices, the company...
Amazon turns to Ian Freed, former Fire Phone leader, to run restaurant delivery, report says
Ian Freed, the Amazon executive who helped lead the retailer’s ill-fated Fire Phone efforts, has re-emerged at the company, according to a...
OPM, Education Department CIOs resign under fire from Congress
In testimony last summer, OPM CIO Donna Seymour said that systems couldn't simply have encryption added, because some of them were over 20 years old and written in COBOL. (The statement was only partially accurate.)
The Office of Personnel Management's chief information officer, Donna Seymour, resigned Monday, two days before she was scheduled to face...
Huge demand for $50 Fire tablet vaults Amazon to 3rd, behind Apple and Samsung — but it won’t last
Amazon’s tablet business grew at a faster rate than any other vendor in the critical holiday quarter, shipping 5.2 million units and posting year-over-year growth of more than 175 percent, according to...
Court agrees, company can fire employee for Yahoo messaging after fair warning
(credit: Phil Whitehouse)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that companies are allowed to monitor employees' Internet activities, including online chats, provided they have been warned beforehand that the private use of company resources is forbidden. Because this decision has been handed down by the ECHR, the highest human rights court in Europe,...
Judge: San Francisco can’t fire cops who exchanged racist and sexist text messages
Enlarge / San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr (L) at a news conference last year. "Anyone capable of the reprehensive texts that these guys sent should not be police officers, and we will work for that to be the case," Suhr said on Monday. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images)
A San Francisco...
How to succeed with hoverboards without catching on fire
(credit: Swagway)
The news has been overrun the past few weeks with stories of hoverboards causing frightening fires and explosions. After one of the most popular hoverboards caught fire and damaged someone's home, Amazon pulled the Swagway board from its website (it has since been brought back). Since then a few more stories of flaming and exploding boards...