Reuters Technology Report: March 23, 2016

Click to View in Browser Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Israeli firm helping FBI to open encrypted iPhone: report TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Wednesday. U.S. to charge Iranians in cyber attacks including New York dam: sources WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is expected to blame Iranian hackers as soon as Thursday for a coordinated campaign of cyber attacks in 2012 and 2013 on a suburban New York City dam and several other targets, possibly including multiple U.S. banks, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. Chinese national pleads guilty in U.S. to computer hacking conspiracy SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A businessman from China pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to hack into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors including Boeing Co , the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Amazon says its female workers paid equally as men SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc, under pressure from an activist shareholder to disclose its policies on gender pay equality, said on Wednesday its female employees earned as much as their male counterparts, according to a survey it recently conducted. Google's cloud business nabs Home Depot as client SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc , long an also-ran in cloud services, has scored an important victory in its effort to win corporate clients: Home Depot is moving some of its data to Google's cloud. Google's Android Pay to launch in UK in few months (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google unit said on Wednesday its one-touch payment app for Android devices, Android Pay, will be launching in the UK in the next few months. Panasonic to abandon 10 trillion yen 2019 sales target: Nikkei (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp will scrap its 10 trillion yen ($88.93 billion) group sales target for fiscal year ending March 2019 due to a cooling global business environment, the Nikkei reported. U.S. grants China's ZTE temporary reprieve on export curbs WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will give Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone maker ZTE Corp a three-month reprieve on tough export restrictions it imposed this month, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. Wireless mice leave billions at risk of computer hack: cyber security firm San Francisco, CA (Reuters) - Marc Newlin and Balint Seeber are checking how far apart they can be while still being able to hack into each other's computers. It turns out its pretty far - 180 meters - the length of a city block in San Francisco.  Vietnam PM approves $300 million R&D investment by Samsung Electronics HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's prime minister has approved a $300-million research and development project in Hanoi by Samsung Electronics Vietnam, a local unit of a South Korean giant that is the communist country's single biggest investor. Related Video Wireless mice leave billions at risk of computer hack, cyber security firm says Genetic test aims to improve diabetes diagnosis Mediafile How about Hightail-ing it? On Twitter, dubious health claims from e-cigarette bots A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today A quick-fix on the day's news delivered when you want it. Register Today » » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2016 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add newsletters@email.reuters.com to your address book. Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook