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YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google...

Airbus teams with Dell for paperless flight data to pilots

Airbus has partnered with Dell to provide electronic flight bag (EFB) systems for A320 airliner operators worldwide. An EFB is an electronic system for viewing and interacting...

IBM tech powers Culturecom's entertainment venture

Some of the most popular Hong Kong-created comic characters like Chinese Hero(華英雄) will be enlivened with a tech touch. Hong Kong-listed comics publisher Culturecom will power...

EMC to sack more than 1,000 workers

As part of an ongoing restructuring, EMC reported recently that it will lay off more than 1,000 employees worldwide. The company reported in its latest 10-Q filing with the US...

Statistician: More data isn't always better

Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most well-known faces of data...

Forrester: 'Renegade' business execs drive IT strategy

Business executives are increasingly bypassing the IT department and spending their own budgets on technology as "it's too important for their business to leave to IT", said...

Researchers find more buildings with insecure control systems

Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation. Hundreds of organizations are using out-of-date...

Pentagon accuses China of cyberattacks on US military and businesses

Chinese cyber espionage activities are fueling a rapid modernization of the country's defense and high tech industries, the Pentagon said in an unusually candid assessment of...

Stealthy malware spreads further

A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri...

Akamai: HK recorded fastest peak connection speed

Hong Kong continues to the number one when it comes to the average peak Internet connection speed in Q4 2012, according to Akamai’s State of the Internet Report. The quarterly...