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Western Digital subsidiary HGST has found a novel way of packing more storage capacity into a standard 3.5-inch hard disc drive: filling it with helium instead of air. Now, it is bringing the first product of this type to market The 6-terabyte Ultrastar He6 HDD is the highest-capacity drive in the world, according to the company. HGST has achieved ...

Twitter on Monday gave would-be investors in its initial public offering more food for thought in a new Securities and Exchange filing On one hand, it is clearly feeling confident about its valuation: The company raised the price range for its IPO to US$23 to $25 per share, up from the $17 to $20 per unit it had established earlier. Twitter still i...

BlackBerry shares fell more than 13 percent Monday morning on news that the company has abandoned its plan to sell itself to its largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings. Instead, it has entered into an agreement whereby Fairfax and other institutional investors will invest US$1 billion in the company. That transaction is expected to be com...

Using social engineering to distribute malware is a favorite of hackers. That's because it unloads the burden of infecting a computer onto its operator. By duping an Internet innocent into making just one errant click, an online bandit can inflict a world of hurt Socially engineered malware attacks attempt to deceive a user into downloading malicio...

An Australian woman formerly in the Australian Defense Force said that she plans to sue the nation's federal government for grievances stemming from a sordid saga in which a fellow cadet filmed the two of them having sex and then streamed it via Skype The woman, known in the media as "Kate," said she will file suit against the defense department in...

ZipRealty recently released a mobile CRM app that complements its custom-built Zap online CRM system. While the mobile version, dubbed "mobile Zap," has the same functionality as its online desktop counterpart, it was designed with an eye to accommodating real estate agents' on-the-go schedules, Jamie Wilson, the company's senior vice president of technology, told CRM Buyer...

My perception of social media changed a lot last week. I went from thinking of it as a sometimes helpful annoyance to a deadly hazard run by criminally negligent executives. Nearly getting kicked to death as a result of a Facebook post will do that to a person, I know that now firsthand What happened was pretty nasty and could have been lethal, so ...

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," wrote Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789 You have to wonder if Old Ben wouldn't add cyberattacks to that list were he alive today.We live in a world in which hundreds of thousands of new threats are created every day. Nary a day goes by without a ne...

Google on Thursday unveiled the highly anticipated Nexus 5, its flagship smartphone running the new KitKat release of the Android operating system. ...

A consortium of technology companies is suing Google and Android manufacturers in its first patent lawsuits after it outbid the search giant for thousands of patents previously owned by Nortel Rockstar, owned by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Sony and EMC, has accused Google of infringing on seven patents relating to technology that matche...

The German Federation of Journalists advised members to quit using Google and Yahoo because those providers are vulnerable to U.S. and British intelligence agencies Citing "scandalous" reports, the warning implored journalists to look elsewhere for both "research and digital communication."

Amazon on Wednesday launched AmazonSmile, a program that will allow shoppers to direct a percentage their Amazon purchase totals to the charitable organization of their choice. Shoppers can choose from a list of nearly 1 million organizations in the U.S. Amazon will give .05 percent of every AmazonSmile purchase to the shopper's selected charity. ...

Sprint announced Wednesday that it had demonstrated 1 Gbps over-the-air speed on its new Spark network at a Sprint lab near Silicon Valley, Calif. The company is just beginning to roll out the super-high-speed network, targeting customers who run data-intensive applications.

Businesses and consumers instinctively understand the importance of customer feedback. Customer engagement represents a potential source of continuous improvement and competitive advantage for businesses. Consumers want to be heard and shape the products and services that impact them Having advised business and nonprofit leaders across nearly all ...

Yuilop is available for free in the Google Play Store. I know, from correspondence that I receive, that readers of this column are pretty global, spread all over the world and in some pretty distant places. That's why I was intrigued when I came across VoIP Android app Yuilop.

A few weeks back All Things Appy covered some of the best, must-have free utilities for the Android mobile environment This time, we look at requisite keyboard, antivirus, backup and download management apps to supplement the battery management, task killer, storage analyzer and monitoring tools that we've looked at previously....

Travelers on domestic flights in the U.S. will soon face far fewer restrictions on their in-flight use of mobile gadgets thanks to new rules announced Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration Previously, travelers were required to shut off all devices with an on/off switch until the aircraft reached 10,000 feet, which typically was about 10 ...

Facebook on Wednesday reported a rise in third-quarter profit and growth in mobile ad revenue.It posted total revenue of US$2.02 billion, a 60 percent jump from the $1.26 billion it reported in the year-ago quarter. Advertising accounted for $1.8 billion of that revenue Facebook now has 1.19 billion active monthly users, an 18 percent jump from the...

The National Security Agency has tapped fiber-optic cables that connect Google's and Yahoo's overseas servers and accessed vast amounts of data including email and other personal information, according to a Wednesday report in The Washington Post Included in the data culled by the NSA is information on hundreds of millions of users, many of whom ar...

A project to build a super-high-speed transportation system in California is gaining traction. JumpStartFund on Thursday revealed its users had voted to select the official name, "Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.," for the company undertaking the challenge Marco Villa, Ph.D., former director of mission operations for SpaceX, and Patricia ...