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TechNewsWorld's All Things Appy column regularly looks at the best free apps for our devices. Today we dissect the top five, must-have Windows 8 apps within the Lifestyle genre Need to check on the weather, monitor what those pesky celebrities are up to, wake up, control your games console or work out? Read on, then, for a look at our recommended, ...

Ever since Zynga and Facebook parted ways last fall, there's been speculation that Facebook might launch its own gaming intiative. Sure enough, the social network this week announced its own Mobile Games Publishing platform, an effort that's designed to give more visibility to small and medium-size mobile game developers "Through the program, we wi...

Two men from near London, a 21-year-old and 29-year-old, have each been sentenced to two months in jail following contempt of court convictions for misusing the Internet while serving on a jury The 21-year-old posted a Facebook message during a sex offense prosecution, saying that he wanted to "f*** up a paedophile." The 29-year-old, meanwhile, us...

Researchers using the United States Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University have created an experimental switch that goes between on and off in one trillionth of a second This was done by blasting samples of magnetite with a laser to rearrange their atomic structure....

The creators of the Guitar Hero video game franchise are looking to put down the plastic guitars and get pumped up instead. Specifically, RedOctane founders Kai and Charles Huang are teaming up with OpenLink founder Coleman Fung to launch Blue Goji, a new interactive fitness company, they announced on Monday Instead of creating games that allow pla...

Ransomware has made the jump from personal computers to the Android world Android.FakeAV.C, a new breed of ransomware, has been spotted in Asia -- almost half (48 percent) in India and Indonesia -- according to an alert by Bitdefender security researcher Liviu Arsene....

On its face, EMC's recently acquisition of ScaleIO seems pretty straightforward. The company said the deal will further strengthen its Flash portfolio by combining ScaleIO's highly scalable server software with PCIe Flash card solutions, like EMC XtremSF. ScaleIO will operate within the EMC Flash Product Division, becoming an integral part of the ...

Social customer service has now become a key point of contact between brands and their customers. Consumers, particularly within the Millennial demographic, take to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks when they have a problem with a company. ...

It wasn't long after the Internet came into widespread use that online privacy became a growing concern. After all, anytime people are connected through their computers and sharing resources online, there's the potential for prying and abuse Such concerns were compounded with the arrival of social networks, online banking and, of course, malware --...

A couple of white hat security experts have shown how hackers could take control of an automobile's steering, braking and other operations through the vehicle's on-board computer ...

Amazon is hiring more than 5,000 people to work in 17 of its U.S. fulfillment centers, it said Monday. In addition to the fulfillment center jobs, Amazon will hire 2,000 new employees to work in its customer service centers The fulfillment center jobs, which are scattered throughout the country, are full-time opportunities that pay 30 percent more ...

The Business Software Alliance is pushing to overturn the U.S. International Trade Commission's ban against older iPhones and iPads, maintaining that it would set a dangerous precedent, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal When the ITC makes a decision to ban a particular product for import into the U.S., it is fast and usually final. T...

Not much has been seen of Dell's "Project Ophelia" thumb PC since its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but recently reports have emerged suggesting that the Android-powered device is now making its way to beta testers, with an official release anticipated in the next few months ...

Australia has recommended changes to copyright law that would allow Aussie citizens cheaper access to IT hardware, software and digital downloads after a parliamentary inquiry found no good reason for prices to be so high Down Under The inquiry sought to unearth why IT prices were so much higher in Australia than elsewhere. The probe kicked off las...

One of the subtexts to the marketing automation explosion is analytics. Having a CRM system might make you wonder why marketing automation is needed at all, but the reasons boil down to analysis and improved data collection Let me share some information with you from a new marketing study I did this summer. First, the data: We asked marketers if ...

I finished my hunt for a new car last month, and as many know, it came down to either the Tesla S or the Jaguar F-Type. While affording one of those expensive cars in full performance form was questionable, there was no question we couldn't afford both. Since I'm a sports car guy, I think it is a real credit to Tesla that I placed its large sedan -- and it is large -- ahead of the other sports cars I drove. ...

Samsung reported record second-quarter profits on Friday, but investor concerns drove down the company's share prices nevertheless. Its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone did not sell as well as expected, and there are indications that demand for high-end devices that fetch a premium price and offer maximum profits is falling....

Remote-control vehicles once primarily inhabited the territory of hobbyists. People would take their planes out to a field on a Saturday afternoon and spin a few lazy circles in the sky With the advent of unmanned aerial vehicles, drones and other high-tech applications, however, it has quickly become a brave new remote-control world, where the li...

After placing its bets on real-money online gambling late last year, Zynga on Thursday announced that it is abandoning that initiative The beleaguered company now believes that its best plan is to focus on free-to-play social games, it announced in its second quarter 2013 financial report. It will continue to evaluate the real-money gaming products...

A 22 percent revenue increase in its second quarter wasn't enough to keep Amazon from reporting an unexpected US$7 million loss on Thursday, which it attributed partially to a weakened European economy. The company's stock, which has been up more than 20 percent for the year overall, tumbled more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. The stock pr...