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Facebook on Monday made it possible for users to perform keyword searches for individual posts on the social network "With a quick search, you can get back to a fun video from your graduation, a news article you've been meaning to read, or photos from your friend's wedding last summer," said Tom Stocky, Facebook's vice president of search....

Turla, a Trojan that has infected hundreds of 32- and 64-bit Windows computers at government institutions, embassies, military installations, educational institutions, and research and pharmaceutical companies over the years, has been found on Linux systems, Kaspersky Lab reported The company has discovered two variants of the malware running on Li...

Federal agencies will be keeping a sharp eye on how much they spend on information technology over the next several years, as budgets will remain tight. In order to deal effectively with tighter budgets, IT providers to the government will have to understand the complex contracting procedures federal agencies will use to maintain discipline in spending.

Samsung on Monday began offering what may best be described as the "alpha version" of its Gear VR headset, developed by Oculus, in the United States This Gear VR Innovator Edition works with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and is priced at US$200....

Grooveshark on Monday confirmed that it will launch a new mobile app that allows subscribers to chat while listening to user-created music stations Dubbed "Broadcasts," the new app will debut next month, offering an ad-free social radio listening experience on both Android and iOS....

Still reeling from a cyberintrusion that exposed massive amounts of personnel data from its entertainment division on the Internet, Sony was attacked again over the weekend. This time, hackers disrupted the company's PlayStation Network However, unlike the foray against Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is still under investigation, the company qu...

An Uber driver in New Delhi has been arrested on charges of raping his passenger, prompting authorities there to ban the service from operating within city limits. Meanwhile, the Netherlands' Commercial Appeals Court has issued a preliminary judgment that Uber must stop working with drivers who lack a taxi license but charge passengers fares for r...

The numbers prove it: Sales and marketing just aren't playing well together in most organizations. A not-so-small industry has sprung up to attack the issue of sales/marketing alignment, but the problem is so deeply entrenched that it may never be fully eradicated That's a little weird when you think about it. After all, there is plenty of research...

Ralph H. Baer, the father of the home video game, died Saturday at 92. Baer invented the Odyssey video game system and co-invented the electronic game Simon. Baer, who was Jewish, emigrated with his family from Germany to the United States prior to World War II. During the war, he served in a military intelligence unit at the U.S. Army headquarte...

Google soon will begin targeting kids 12 and under with tailored versions of its products, likely including its search functionality, along with offerings such as YouTube and Chrome The company is pushing to change make its products fun and safe for children, Pavni Diwanji, Google vice president of engineering, said last week in a USA Today interv...

I was at Dell's thin client briefing earlier this week at its new facility in California's Silicon Valley, and it clearly is feeling very confident, in light of HP's plan to split its company. There really have been only two major players in the thin client space for a few years, and they are HP and Dell, but since thin clients require both a sp...

Welcome, dear readers, and set aside that last leftover-turkey sandwich for a short while as we explore the murky landscape of freshly announced gadgets in this week's Gadget Dreams and Nightmares ...

In the first three quarters of 2014, the Google Chromecast and Amazon Fire TV made stunning gains in sales activity versus the market-leading Roku and the No. 2 device from 2012 and 2013, the Apple TV, according to a study that made the rounds this week Roku snapped up 29 percent of sales (down from 46 percent in 2013), while Google Chromecast rose...

A trailer leaked on Friday indicates that Capcom's biggest upcoming title, Street Fighter V, will be an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. The trailer apparently was accidentally posted prematurely on Capcom's YouTube channel -- albeit briefly -- before being taken down by the game publisher, but it is still circulating, thanks to ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft on Friday successfully completed its first test flight, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California at 8:29 a.m. PST after orbiting the Earth twice in roughly four and a half hours NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate Willia...

Artificial intelligence eventually could bring about mankind's demise, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published earlier this week "The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have have proved very useful, but I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawkin...

Who breached Sony Pictures' network and why continues to be a puzzle a week after news of the hack first emerged. Some speculate it was an inside job. A few have pointed fingers at North Korea, which returned its own one-finger salute in response. Others discount that possibility....

Puzzle GNU/Linux is a strange OS distribution that shows the value of open source ingenuity. This Linux distro is built around a hybrid desktop that is highly customizable.You might get the impression when you start using it that the desktop environment is a new creation. That would not be completely accurate. Puzzle's user interface is not new. W...

Apple for two years surreptitiously removed from iPods any music not purchased at its iTunes store, prosecutors charged Wednesday in federal court The accusations surfaced in the U. S. District Court for the Northern California, during the trial of a 10-year-old class-action lawsuit claiming Apple violated federal and state laws starting in 2006, w...

Twitter on Tuesday announced a revamp of its system for reporting abuse on its service "In our continuing effort to make your Twitter experience safer, we're enhancing our in-product harassment reporting and making improvements to 'block' [followers]," said Shreyas Doshi, Twitter's director of product management....