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BackBox Linux 4.4 is a great Linux distro for IT and other techies who want to do their own penetration tests and security assessments....

Rumors thatT-Mobile plans to introduce an unlimited data plan for streaming video services circulated Thursday following a Twitter post from journalist Evan Blass, who tweets under the handle @evleaks The company would allow unlimited high-speed data to be used to watch select streaming from services such as Netflix and HBO under its "Uncarrier 10"...

Project Loon, part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, on Wednesday announced that it has signed agreements with three mobile network operators in Indonesia -- Indosat, Telkomse, and XL Axiata -- to begin tests of its balloon-powered Internet service in 2016 Only about one in three of Indonesia's 250 million residents is connected to the Internet...

Global demand for tablets continued a year-long slide, as shipments fell for the fourth consecutive quarter amid signs of market saturation in North America, Asia and Western Europe, IDC noted in a report released Thursday Worldwide shipments fell 12.6 percent year-over-year to 48.6 million during the third quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Qua...

The latest version of Apple's streaming media set-top box, expected to hit U.S. retail stores on Friday, has gathered a bundle of mixed early reviews Some reviewers saw great potential in the US$149 diminutive black box designed to pump movies, TV shows, games and apps from the Internet to a television set. Others found plenty to criticize....

Nintendo shares fell 9 percent on Thursday, and partner DeNA's stock dropped 15 percent afterNintendo announced that it would wade into the mobile waters next year with social mobile app Miitomo Based on the Mii digital avatars made popular by the Wii, Miitomo will seek to connect players through trivia, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said in...

Element14 on Tuesday revealed an exclusive agreement to offer OEM customers bespoke designs based on theRaspberry Pi platform Raspberry Pi -- which has seen success in the educational and maker fields -- is targeting commercial manufacturers and the Internet of Things, signing up Premier Farnell through the latter's element14 brand to customize its...

Innovation is not always good -- it can backfire. Good innovation helps to grow a brand in the marketplace and results in more customer love. Bad innovation does the opposite. Companies would be better off doing nothing than innovating badly Many public companies innovate on a regular basis because they think they have to. After all, they must keep...

While Microsoft has been driving home the potential hits it has for the holidays, Sony has sat silent. That changed this week at Paris Games Week, when Sony set the tone for the next year or so by touting 21 games, mostly exclusives, poised to redefine the PlayStation 4 experience It's what PlayStation fans have been waiting for -- a listing of com...

The Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office, on Wednesday published new rules to replace a set of controversial -- and for many, outdated -- measures. Consumers now may hack their own tablet computers, automobile software and Blu-ray devices without fear of being sued. The ruling upgrades certain provisions of the Digital Mil...

SXSW Interactive might include a daylong event on combating online harassment, Re/code reported Tuesday. The news followed SXSW's cancellation of two planned panels that were expected to focus on opposite ends of the Gamergate debate.

Qualcomm on Tuesday announced a muscle video camera for surveillance systems It's part of the company's Snapdragon 618 IP camera platform. The unit combines a six-core, 64-bit processor; next-generation graphics crunching; and embedded digital signal processing....

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 74-21 to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, in the face of strong opposition from legal and cybersecurity experts, the high-tech industry, privacy and civil liberties organizations, and members of the public The Act calls for the United States Director of National Intelligence, the Department o...

Walmart on Monday filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration to begin deploying commercial drones to transport goods from outside vendors to its distribution centers, as well as to customers' homes The company, which has been testing drones in indoor flights, wanted an exemption in order to deploy small unmanned aircraft systems, wro...

Microsoft on Monday opened its flagship store in Manhattan With an area of more than 22,000 square feet, it's the company's largest store and its 113th brick-and-mortar retail establishment. It's also the first Microsoft store that's two stories high....

Russian spy ships and subs are hovering close to the routes of undersea communications cables, The New York Times reported Sunday Military and intelligence officials apparently have observed increased Russian sub activity near cables located from the North Sea to Northeast Asia, as well as in waters close to American shores, the paper said....

Apple on Monday opened up advanced orders for the next generation of Apple TV, as promised. The set-top boxes are expected to hit homes between Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 It's offering two versions of the Apple TV. A 32-GB version is priced at US$149 and a 64-GB model is $50 more....

The padlock on a browser's address bar is supposed to give Net travelers some security in insecure virtual space, but that's not always the case. Some dangerous flaws lurk behind the padlock They can weaken the effectiveness of encrypted Internet connections and compromise TLS/SSL processes, including domain validation, end-to-end encryption, and t...

Consumers who purchase desktop or laptop computers are able to select various options, such as screen size or type of processor. When it comes to paying for the device, however, each consumer has the buying leverage of exactly one If the customer is the U.S. government, which buys computers by the truckload, the transaction surely involves a lot of...

TheKaOS Linux distro is a very efficient Linux distribution built around a refined KDE desktop environment that just keeps getting better....