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It's easy to be blinded by the obvious. It happens in business all the time. Something is right in front of you, but you attribute its effect to a different cause. I see this most typically when observing a paradigm shift -- the reason for the shift is not always the obvious causative agent. For example, Dell became a great producer of PCs -- de...

GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio is an easy-to-use, cross-platform desktop tool by Linoma Software that protects files using the OpenPGP encryption standard. Why opt for this relative newcomer instead of other, more mature open standards-based encryption solutions? If for no other reason, OpenPGP Studio is "pretty good protection," which is the basis of ...

There's no denying the popularity of Apple's iPad and its Android-based kin, not just with adults but with kids as well. Now, for all those parents out there who wish their kids would play with something else once in a while -- simple drawing paper and pens, for instance -- a new Kickstarter funding project offers fresh hope ...

Symantec on Tuesday disclosed the existence of a group of 50 to 100 top-rate hackers Named "Hidden Lynx" after a string of code Symantec found in its command-and-control server communications, the group is an advanced persistent threat that has skills well ahead of similar organizations in the region, such as APT1, Symantec said....

Netflix on Monday updated its "long-term view" of the industry to include a far wider range of competitive factors than it has ever had in the past. The company also adjusted its competitive focus accordingly, taking into account a number of players that it had previously ignored In a nutshell, the company said in its statement for investors, it ex...

Facebook and Twitter were widely available to Iranian netizens on Monday. Come Tuesday, however, things were back to normal: The sites were blocked Iran's Mehr news agency reports that faulty Internet filters caused the sites to become available -- not some newfound progressive streak in Tehran....

Tumblr has teamed up with social analytics company DataSift to provide users with information about consumer engagement and sentiment. As of Monday, DataSift subscribers gained access to both historic and real-time data about what consumers were posting about their brands in Tumblr's 5.5 billion monthly global interactions.

Turn-by-turn directions have become a common technological enhancement to the automotive world thanks to a set of satellites dedicated to the task To date, these radio positioning signals have been supplied to consumers primarily by the U.S. military through a satellite constellation called "GPS," or Global Positioning System. Essentially, receiver...

Real-time bidding holds numerous benefits for mobile marketers, but there are downsides to the ad technology as well In particular, the dominant theme to that downside is that RTB -- at least for mobile ad formats and mobile platforms -- is still in its early days. More specifically, while the technology may have been around for several years, it's...

Health buffs today have no shortage of apps, gizmos, gadgets and devices promising tohelp them get and stay in shape. At the same time, new materials are enabling lighter, strongerand more diverse products The next revolution in fitness, however, could come from a technology that seems to have little to do with athletics but is already being used d...

Google has acquired Bump -- a move that could fundamentally change the way people and devices interact, suggested Bump cofounder and CEO David Lieb. Bump's mobile file-sharing app allows users to exchange files such as contact information or photos with a tap, or "bump," of their phones or other devices ...

Cloud storage provider Box has unveiled a private beta of Box Notes, a real-time content creation and collaboration feature, as an add-on to its existing services Box Notes is designed to let business teams capture and share ideas on the fly....

A Google Street View car dinged a pair of public transport buses and a truck in Bogor, Indonesia The Google driver hit one bus and then tried to skedaddle when the driver got angry, police reported.

Web applications have become attractive targets for hackers because they allow bad actors to maximize the reach of their mischief with a minimum of effort That's what originally attracted the Internet underworld to programs like Windows and Adobe Acrobat, and it's what continues to attract them to Java. A vulnerability in one of those programs can ...

Almost all entertainment devices entering the home now have connectivity capabilities. These connected TV devices include smart TVs, gaming consoles, streaming video media devices such as a Roku or Apple TV, and Blu-ray players Currently, more than 50 percent of U.S. broadband households have at least one consumer electronics home entertainment dev...

This year, Intel held its IDF during the same week as Apple's iPhone launch, and it's not the first time these events have coincided. However, I could count the number of times Intel has had something more interesting to present than Apple on one hand -- and have five fingers left over. That was true until last week, when Intel surprised the mar...

Samsung's next Galaxy smartphones will have 64-bit processors, according to J.K. Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, The Korea Times reported Samsung is apparently taking its cue from Apple's launch of the iPhone 5s, the first 64-bit-processor smartphone, earlier this week....

The combination of the polymorphic nature of malware, failure of signature-based security tools, and massive amounts of data and traffic flowing in and out of enterprise networks is making threat management using traditional approaches virtually impossible. Until now, security has been based largely on the opinions of researchers who investigate a...

Video game sales showed their first increase in almost two years last month, NPD Group reported on Thursday Gaming hardware sales weren't so fortunate -- they were down 40 percent compared to August 2012, according NPD's August report on sales in the physical retail sector of the video game industry. Total new physical software sales, however, were...

NASA has confirmed that after 36 years of journeying, Voyager 1 has reached interstellar space Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through a transitional plasma region in the space between the influence of Earth's sun and other stars.