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The Tor Project is working to remedy a vulnerability in its anonymity software following the sudden cancellation of a talk at next month's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that would have revealed it The planned talk, entitled "You Don't Have to be the NSA to Break Tor: Deanonymizing Users on a Budget," would have demonstrated a way to un...

The frenzy over the forthcoming iPhone intensified Tuesday with a Wall Street Journal report that Apple has ordered up to 80 million units of the device Meanwhile, Samsung unveiled an ad poking fun at the "iPhone 6" and Xiaomi introduced its answer to the iPhone, the Mi4. Xiaomi, known for high specs at relatively low prices, is cutting inroads int...

The long-held belief that Android is the least secure of mobile OSes was shattered by security researcher and expert iOS hacker Jonathan Zdziarski at the Hope/X hackers' conference, held in New York over the weekend Zdziarski unveiled a host of iOS vulnerabilities, the scope of which was staggering.

Nvidia is expanding its Shield line of gaming products with the launch of a gaming tablet and accompanying wireless controller Designed for high performance, the tablet is powered by Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor, which includes 192 graphics processing unit cores. It will be frequently updated with software updates designed to draw stronger performan...

Vendors could be spending a busy summer preparing to respond to a major federal information technology project. The U.S. Defense Department is planning to issue a request for bids on a multibillion dollar electronic health records, or EHR, system by the end of September. The department issued its third draft of a Request for Proposals to industry ...

Secret last week announced that a recent round of funding, to the tune of US$25 million, would help it expand its reach in the social networking space Since its launch about six months ago, Secret has provided a platform for users to post anonymous notes on topics ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime....

Startup GoTenna has launched its eponymously named device, which lets users send and receive encrypted text messages without the need for a cell tower "This is an interesting concept," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld. "It's like a walkie-talkie on steroids."

Concerns about overly broad searches of digital data by law enforcement once again have emerged after a federal judge on Friday issued an opinion stating officials armed with a warrant can seize and hold a suspect's entire email account Such an action would not violate the suspect's rights under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, said U.S....

Attentive.ly recently released its application on the Eloqua platform, digging a deeper foothold for itself in the CRM enterprise space. Attentive.ly provides social marketing automation functionality in the form of a plug-and-play toolset that works with a CRM overlay. Using its tools, companies can organize customers in specific groups, listen t...

The Internet adoption rate in China appears to be slowing, based on a report that shows the lowest six-month increase in the number of Internet users in eight years The total number of Internet users in the country reached 632 million by the end of June. That includes the 14.4 million people who joined Internet user ranks in the first half of the y...

While the cloud promises faster time to market and reduced costs, it also presents a new landscape for hackers to attack and achieve their goals -- namely, to find and gain unauthorized access to data and information. Attackers follow the data they are after, and if that data is residing in the cloud, then they are going to start operating in the cloud as well.

Microsoft last week announced a large staff reduction tied to the acquisition of Nokia. There is actually a science to how to make layoffs, but much of that appears to have been lost over the last couple of decades. I have some theories as to why (I blame the Democrats and financial analysts) but how you carry out job cuts actually is very impor...

It may not be a marriage made in heaven, but the cloud is pretty close Just hours after IBM and Apple announced they had entered a strategic partnership, speculation began to spread about the possible integration of two of their most well-known products: What if Siri and Watson were to hook up?...

Facebook is testing a function that would allow users to buy products without leaving the site or app Small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. that are taking part in the trial can add the Buy button to ads displayed in users' News Feeds or in posts on their pages. Users will see the Buy button in relevant ads whether they're on the Facebook w...

Amazon on Friday introduced Kindle Unlimited, a new subscription service for e-books. The service allows customers to download and read as many books as they want from a list of more than 600,000 Kindle books for a monthly fee of US$9.99. Included in the price are thousands of Audible audio books.

Apple has agreed -- conditionally -- to settle a lawsuit over allegations of fixing the prices of e-books brought against it by the attorneys general of 33 states in the United States, following a protracted legal battle The settlement is subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled on the case i...

A crowdfunding campaign forJibo, a little robot designed to become one of the family, kicked off Wednesday on Indiegogo, and with 29 days remaining, it already has raised more than US$577,000 -- nearly six times its $100,000 target. ...

SAP and its long-standing partner Esri have developed a native product integration that debuted this week at the at the Esri User Conference currently under way in San Diego. The companies have been collaborating on projects since 1999, due to the significant overlap in their respective customer bases. Some 60 percent of SAP's asset management cus...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday announced the elimination of 18,000 jobs -- roughly one in seven of the company's workforce -- in the next year About 12,500 of the positions eliminated will be at Nokia....

Telecom regulators from each European Union member state, together with the Article 29 Working Party -- a group comprised of a data protection authority representative from each state, the European Data Protection Supervisor, and the European Commission -- have invited search engines to a meeting next week, according to a Thursday report in The Wall Street Journal.