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President Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping will meet this weekend to talk cybersecurity, among other things, but there are plenty of people on either side talking already A day after China's claim that it has "mountains of data"proving U.S.-based hackers have been attacking the Middle Kingdom, United States intelligence officials say they hav...

More than half of the adults in the United States now own a smartphone, constituting a new milestone in the history of the device, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project Specifically, smartphone adoption has grown to 56 percent of American adults, according to Pew's Smartphone Ownership 2013 report released this week....

Keeping the lights on in the global industrial world -- never an easy task -- never seems to get any easier. Nuclear energy, which provides nearly 20 percent of our nation's electricity, is at a crossroads. Can nuclear reactors -- the torrid, pulsating, heat-generating hearts of nuclear power plants -- ever be safe enough?...

It has been a busy three years for Bonitasoft Since its launch, the company has: 1) commercialized its open source business process management technology, which it created out of the Bonita Project in the mid-2000s; 2) pulled in US$28 million in venture funding; and 3) attracted some 600 customers, including national and multinational firms such as...

Private companies that do business with the U.S. government have a big stake in how federal agencies regulate the cybersecurity elements of federal contracts. As the number and sophistication of cyberthreats increases, the government is attempting to keep pace by upgrading cyber-requirements The government has now launched a program that gives the...

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A coalition comprising Microsoft, the FBI, financial industry companies and technology firms has taken out more than 1,400 botnets that used the Citadel Trojan to steal victims' online banking information and information about their identities, following an investigation launched in 2012 "This was a lengthy process, and we relied heavily on our fin...

This coming weekend's cybersecurity talks may have already started The state-run People's Daily ran an article claiming that China has "mountains of data" proving that it has been the victim of cyberespionage at the hands of the United States....

The National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon users in the United States under a secret court order, The Guardian reported on Wednesday Specifically, Verizon has been required to provide an ongoing account of all telephone calls on its systems, including those inside the U.S. and between the U.S. and othe...

Amazon is rolling out a grocery delivery service that could allow it to expand into a mostly untapped e-commerce market, according to a Reuters report. The company already runs AmazonFresh, a grocery service that delivers food and home products to several Seattle neighborhoods. A similar service reportedly will launch later this month in Los Angel...

The world can be a very loud place, and New York City's Grand Central Terminal -- with its trains, subways and thousands of people -- served as a perfect backdrop for Bose to demonstrate how it canaddress and even combat that noise This week the company introduced two new audio products inVanderbilt Hall within the famous New York City train statio...

We have been watching the big guys battle it out for the last few years. Apple's iOS vs. Google's Android on the operating system side, and Apple's iPhone vs. Samsung's Galaxy on the handset side. However little attention has been paid to No. 3. Which company is No. 3? I'll be you don't even know. Yet No. 3 could transform the industry over the next few years...

Perfection is elusive, if not impossible to achieve. Businesses are made up of people, and people are imperfect. They make mistakes -- mistakes involving internal operations and mistakes that affect customers. How many have planned for those inevitable instances when people prove fallible? Not many. We don't like to envision ourselves as vulnerabl...

It's no longer acceptable to use dates of birth, pet names and so on for passwords. These easily guessed words were never secure, but it didn't matter much in the past -- quite frankly, who cared if a black hat got into your email account? So what? However, things are much different today, because our lives are now digitally enveloped. Everything ...

The Obama administration on Tuesday targeted patent trolls with a number of initiatives aimed at curbing activity it blames for stymieing innovation in America The initiatives include five executive orders and seven legislative recommendations that will "protect innovators from frivolous litigation and ensure the highest-quality patents in our syst...

At this week's Computex trade show in Taiwan, Microsoft applied some polish to its beleaguered Windows platform. That included announcing that its widely used Outlook email software will finally arrive on Windows RT and making the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Windows 8.1 update Windows RT, which arrived last fall, has so far been s...

Britain's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has begun sending letters to people it suspects of operating websites that provide access to unauthorized content for "criminal gain." The letters state that law enforcement authorities are working with the government and "industry bodies" -- this would be Hollywood studios and the BPI, Britian's music i...

Sony has launched a new Vaio hybrid tablet/laptop and two new Vaio Ultrabooks; the trio became available on Sunday All three have premium audio and visual technologies, and they use Intel's Haswell processors, which were designed for low power consumption....

We all know by now that using a cellphone while driving can be a dangerous practice, but talking on a hands-free phone isn't much better, according to a recent research report That's because people talk on the phone so regularly that they have developed learned habits that take over their awareness, according to Robert Rosenberger, an assistant pro...

After considerable delay and a significant redesign, Wikipad on Tuesday announced that it will release its long-awaited namesake gaming tablet on June 11 at a price of US$249. A global launch is planned for this summer Featuring a capacitive, multitouch 7-inch screen, the new tablet runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and slips into a cradle that adds digi...