Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

Hackers target important Saudi websites

The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

Jolla announces its first Salifish OS smartphone

Jolla announced the first smartphone to run its Salifish mobile operating system (OS) on Monday, ahead of its European release later this year. Despite us thinking the firm had named the phone "The Movement" as if it was a rapper or wrestler, the phone apparently is named, somewhat confusingly, Jolla. Its specifications are a bit more straightforward though, with the handset boasting ...

Is business breakup is what Sony needs

Nowhere is the opulence of Old Hollywood more palpable than on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City. Arching just inside the front gate is an eight-story rainbow. This grand $1.6 million sculpture, a condition of a lot expansion, rose last year and became a symbolic link between past glories - "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed here - and current ones. Years of cutbacks have taken the shine ...

Infosys visa cost jumped 50 in FY13

MUMBAI Stricter norms and higher rejection rate of work permits have pushed up the visa-related cost of country's second largest software services company, Infosys by more than 50% to Rs 308 crore in 2012-13 fiscal. According to Infosys' Annual Report 2012-13 , the company's overseas travel expenses included visa charges of Rs 308 crore for year 2012-13. Compared to visa charges ...