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Kaspersky Lab has released research findings on Careto, a malware toolkit that has hit more than 380 victims in 31 countries so far since 2007 "Careto" means "mask" in Spanish, Kaspersky notes....

Google reportedly has partnered with Foxconn to advance its foray into robotics Foxconn is widely known as the manufacturer of most of Apple's iPhones and iPads. The firm now is working with Google, according to The Wall Street Journal....

Sigma is known mostly as a maker of lenses for other companies' cameras, but a few years ago it latched on to a new kind of sensor technology and produced an innovative byte snapper that caused a stir in photography circles Now it's introducing a new generation of its Foveon cameras with a redesigned sensor and a speedier image processor....

FBI "red tape" is preventing detectives from accessing the mobile phone formerly belonging to South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee known as "Blade Runner," who faces murder charges over the 2013 death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp South African investigators reportedly have been trying to persuade the FBI to back a reques...

The retail image of consumer electronics products -- bright and shiny in their meticulously sterile packages -- fundamentally contradicts how they are manufactured. Anyone who has spent time on a factory floor knows this. The work is often dirty and occasionally dangerous, emphasized speed leads to injuries, and the constant stress of repetitive motions and work quotas can exact other kinds of tolls.

If the latest sapphire tech rumor is true, Apple's exclusivemanufacturing partner, GT Advanced Technologies, is gearing up itsMesa, Ariz., manufacturing facility with enough furnaces to forgeas many as 200 million iPhone displays Previously, most super-hard sapphire crystal rumors were limited tosmall component usage in Apple products, like scratch...

As SugarCRM moves forward, fueled by its recent infusion of US$40 million by Goldman Sachs to invest in sales and marketing, it plans to focus on "the nontraditional use of CRM," said VP of Marketing Jennifer Stagnaro. "That is, we plan to go beyond the traditional uses of sales force automation and customer service and marketing automation," she ...

Defense contractors have begun to bolster their cybersecurity practices in the wake of the massive leaking of government data by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden Seventy-five percent of defense contractors said the Snowden Affair had changed security procedures for their employees in a survey released by ThreatTrack, conducted by Opinion Matter...

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on Monday dropped his attempt to push Apple into repurchasing US$50 billion-worth of its stocks, after months of effort The move follows a recommendation against his proposal made Sunday night by proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, Icahn said in a letter to Apple investors.

Popular smartphone game Flappy Bird has been pulled from Apple's App Store and the Google Play app marketplace by its creator Independent Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen released the free-to-download game last May having spent only a few nights creating it.

France's top administrative court ruled that Google must display a notice on its French search page saying that the company was fined by a local privacy watchdog Google plans to fight the fine, but will have to adorn its Google.fr page with the humiliating message in the meantime....

In the wake of revelations that the U.S. and UK governments regularly monitor private communications -- including Internet usage, GPS data, and cell information -- a number of countries are considering a new type of law called "data localization." In the simplest of terms, data localization laws would require that businesses that operate on the Int...

There has been a lot of discussion on the differences between Steve Jobs' Apple and Steve Ballmer's Microsoft, with a common argument being that Apple innovated and Microsoft didn't. I don't think the facts support that. I'd argue that Microsoft out-innovated Apple during Ballmer's tenure, but Apple out-executed Microsoft. It wasn't Ballmer vs...

Aqua Mail Pro Key is available in the Google Play store for US$4.95 If you've been thinking that there must be a better way to handle email than the email client supplied natively in Android, I bring good news: There is, and it's called "Aqua Mail."

Google is moving into a new market with the launch of its teleconferencing system, Chromebox for Business The system uses the Chrome operating system and is built on Chrome's core tenets of simplicity, speed and security. It marries Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps to allow meeting participants to hold high-definition video meetings with document c...

California Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon on Friday announced the introduction of a bill in the legislature that would require all smartphones and devices sold in California to have a kill switch starting Jan. 1, 2015 Senate Bill 962 comes against a backdrop of rising smartphone theft. It is now the leading propert...

Not quite content with pushing the boundaries on the level of screen clarity with the vaunted Retina display, Apple apparently is investigating new ways of advancing screen technology The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursdaypublished three patent applications by Apple that detail its interest in improving the Retina display through the use ...

Amazon on Thursday announced the launch of Amazon Studios' brand-new pilot season of original comedy, drama and kid-oriented content New to this year's lineup are dramas from the creators of The X-Files and Harry Bosch, as well as comedies from Oscar-nominated Roman Coppola and Tony-nominated writer and director Alex Timbers. Featured stars include...

Criminal and civil allegations of insider trading recently were filed against Brian Jorgenson, a senior portfolio manager at Microsoft. This news amazed me, because over the last few years there has been an abundance of published information about the hazards of insider trading, especially the criminal consequences Consider what happened to the hed...

The United States' top diplomat for Europe was caught saying, "F*ck the EU," in a now-viral recording The diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, made the comment in a thought-to-be private telephone call that later was leaked online. She has apologized to EU officials, but her remarks -- which were...