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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced that for the first time more than a billion people had used the site on a single day. The counter hit the milestone earlier in the week, on Monday Nearly 1.5 billion users log on at least once monthly, according to Facebook, but Monday marked the first time that more than two-thirds of its members ...

Police in North Dakota can use drones armed with what are optimistically called "nonlethal weapons," thanks to the passage of House Bill 1328, which Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law this spring The new law gives police the authority in a roundabout way: Section 5 states a law enforcement agency may not authorize the use of an unmanned aerial ve...

Despite disparaging sales reports, the Apple Watch is closing in on market leader Fitbit, according to an IDC report released Thursday During the second quarter, Apple shipped 3.6 million watches -- 800,000 units behind Fitbit's shipments for the period....

As part of a new strategic collaboration, Intel will lead a US$100 million funding round inMirantis, the companies announced earlier this week. Intel is a long-time investor in Mirantis This round includes existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital, as well as new investor Goldman...

Hardened sales veterans may hear the expression "customer experience" and shrug or scoff. What has it got to do with them, they may ask? A lot -- because it can add dollars directly to their commissions checks Granted, they may not be the ones creating the experiences -- although sales does indeed play a role -- but they certainly should be cogniza...

It's alive! YouTube Gaming, a hub that's home to over 25,000 video game pages, on Wednesday began broadcasting live and on-demand streams, let's play videos and the like. The gaming hub is accessible on desktop PCs, and on Android and iOS devices YouTube Gaming may be new, but YouTube isn't new to gaming, and the hub is likely to offer a serious ch...

Amazon has given the boot to dozens of engineers who worked on its ill-fated Fire Phone, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday The purged staffers reportedly worked at Lab126, Amazon's secretive Silicon Valley-based hardware development center....

Shadow IT -- the use of unauthorized online services by company employees -- is a concern of cyberwarriors charged with defending business systems against network attacks. There's new evidence that those concerns are justified A new attack vector on business systems leverages the synchronization features of services like Dropbox and Google Drive to...

Why do my GE washer and dryer sound as loud as a hurricane? As I sit here at the beach, on the balcony, on a beautiful, sunny, warm and peaceful morning watching the sun rise over the sparkling Atlantic Ocean, something is terribly wrong. What? I can't hear you. Could you speak louder? Sorry, the new washer and dryer we recently bought are roaring...

Happy Birthday, Linux Project -- this week you turned 24 The Linux OS has grown up everywhere. Its code and the open source model are found worldwide. People often use linux without knowing it -- when they search on Google, buy metro tickets or surf the Web. Linux powers all of that infrastructure....

You might ask what the difference is between personalization and authenticity in CRM, and the answer is subtle. For a long time I have felt -- and said -- that we overemphasize personalization when what customers really want is authenticity. However, examples are hard to find, especially with our current culture's strong emphasis on personalization and the tendency to give authenticity quizzical looks. Perhaps you are feeling quizzical right now...

Online advertising that pushes malicious software to consumers has increased 325 percent over the past year, Cyphort Labs reported Tuesday. Malvertising is adding to what is already a significant problem for online advertisers.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL, this week presented a new MultiFab printer at SIGGRAPH, an annual computer graphics conference For all of the promise 3D printing has offered, additive manufacturing techniques generally have been limited to one material at...

Microsoft on Monday released a public beta of its Cortana personal assistant for Android The Cortana app can do most of the things Cortana does on Windows: set and get reminders; search the Web on the go; track information such as flight details; and begin and complete tasks across all a user's devices....

The U.S. Defense Department is seeking vendors to participate in a multiyear information technology support program with a total contract value of US$12 billion. DoD has indicated it will release a Request for Proposals for the Encore III program, which covers a wide range of IT services, by the end of this month. The amount of the tech support co...

The Toronto Police Service on Monday held a press conference to report on the progress of Project Unicorn, the official investigation into the hack attack on Ashley Madison, an adultery-promoting website. The Toronto police are working closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the U.S. Federal Bureau...

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company last week announced that Pokken Tournament -- the Pokemon fighting game developed by Namco Bandai -- will expand from arcades in Japan to a worldwide launch on the Wii U in the spring of 2016 Pokken Tournament gives players complete control over their Pokemon. Instead of just issuing commands to use special attacks,...

Spredfast last week announced its acquisition of Shoutlet, a social data aggregator Shoutlet has been a "huge innovator" in the social CRM space, according to Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron....

The Core Infrastructure Initiative last week announced a program that will offer badges to open software developers who follow best practice software development and security procedures. CII announced the free Badge Program at LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America The CII, a project of the Linux Foundation, enables technology companies, industry stakeho...

An internal McDonald's memo labeled "proprietary and confidential" has been circulating, advising employees to get ready for a Wednesday launch of Android Pay -- the successor to Google Wallet, and Google's answer to Apple Pay Google officially announced Android Pay this spring, during it's annual developers conference, saying only that Android Pay...