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Britain is simultaneously investigating and praising Chinese telecommunication firm Huawei OK, so the UK didn't out and compliment Huawei. Less than a week after British authorities launched a cybersecurity review of the company, however, Prime Minister David Cameron said that British telecommunications company TalkTalk had shown "great leadership"...

Nvidia demoed the first processor from Project Logan, its next-generation CUDA-capable mobile processor, at the Siggraph conference and exhibition held in Anaheim, Calif., this week The processor uses the efficient processing cores from Nvidia's Kepler high-performance computing architecture....

American cloud service providers seeking to do business abroad are feeling the fallout from the NSA's PRISM surveillance program, suggests a month-long online survey the Cloud Security Alliance initiated in June Fifty-six percent of more than 200 overseas respondents said they were less likely to use United States-based cloud providers, and anothe...

Businesses depend on their customers, and it would make sense that good customer service would translate into loyal customers and more sales, but high-tech vendors don't seem to have gotten the message The average customer experience rating for tech vendors fell from 58 percent to 52 percent since last year, in on a survey of 800 IT professionals ...

One of the most fundamental keys to garnering interest in a democratically funded project is to propose something that people are going to seriously want. Wishy-washy concepts won't cut it -- it's got to be seductive The svelte Pebble smartwatch is a good example of this funding technique, and it raised millions on Kickstarter. The Ouya video game ...

Long known for its out-and-out censorship, Beijing now appears to be filling Chinese social media with pro-government messages The new tack was on full display after the Thursday indictment of fallen Communist Party member Bo Xilai, who was busted for corruption and abuse of power in 2012....

It was just about a month ago that Microsoft relaxed the rules for players of its forthcoming Xbox One, and on Thursday it made a similar concession for small game developers. Specifically, in a break with past policies, the company announced that it will allow small, independent game makers to self-publish their games on Xbox Live "Our vision is t...

A proposal to restrict the NSA's surveillance of Americans' phone calls was defeated by a mere 12 votes in the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a battle that drew unusual bipartisan support at a time when partisanship is running at an all-time-high Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced an amendment to the defen...

When a tweet goes out on Twitter that a user didn't send, the concern is usually that the account has been hijacked by a malicious user. This week, however, three users on Twitter were surprised to find out that their user names and images had been used as examples in a marketing campaign created by Twitter itself Fake tweets attributed to three re...

Facebook's stock soared Wednesday following the release of its second-quarter earnings report, which beat Wall Street expectations overall. Investors seemed pleased with the company's strong user growth and better-than-expected gains from mobile advertising. It reported US$1.81 billion in revenue, a 53 percent year-over-year increase, with its big...

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What the heck is wrong at Microsoft? It may be an important company, but it's an older company that has definitely lost its way. It can recover but doesn't see how. The solution seems so obvious from the outside. However, there is a sense that arrogance is getting in the way of clear thinking. It is keeping Microsoft from becoming great once again. So what's wrong, and what can it do to recover? ...

It can be difficult enough to market to consumers through one channel, but trying to work across channels compounds that difficulty considerably. Enter Experian Marketing Services, which recently upgraded its cross-channel marketing platform with several new features. Experian regularly updates its application, Jeff Hassemer, senior vice president...

Email has been around since before the Internet, but while the technology itself hasn't changed much since the 1970s, the volume of it has. Some people, in fact, receive hundreds of messages a day. That's a threat to a human's ability to process information. There are, however, ways to manage email. Here's how to go about it....

Lawmakers in Finland will vote on a crowdsourced legislative proposal that, if approved, would change the nation's copyright laws Last year, Finland's constitution was modified to allow citizens to submit proposals to Parliament, so long as said proposals obtained 50,000 supporters within six months. One of the proposals to garner the requisite sup...

After launching as a mobile-only app for tablets and smartphones, Flipboard has landed on the desktop and made its way to the Web Originally designed for the iPad when it launched back in 2010, Flipboard lets users create their own digital magazines from stories in the news. It used to be, however, that the only people who could view and browse tho...

Google on Wednesday unveiled a new Nexus 7 as part of its latest assault on the market for the connected living room ...

Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake have increased their takeover bid for Dell by 10 cents to US$13.75 a share, a special committee of Dell's board of directors announced on Wednesday As a result, the already-postponed special meeting of stockholders intended for the official vote on the buyout option was rescheduled for Aug. 2 to give th...

Verizon Wireless on Tuesday introduced a new family of Droid smartphones including the Droid Mini, Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx. All three handsets are being produced by Motorola as part of a new exclusivity deal With this partnership, Motorola Mobility will be the only smartphone manufacturer to produce handsets under the "Droid" moniker....

Product integrity is a key element in business and increasingly important in the information technology sector, where products and services are highly vulnerable to the creation of copies and counterfeits. Both IT vendors and their customers are equally at risk when phony and faulty products enter the supply chain As one step to control the flow ...