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A video and photos of what could be the first Motorola-Google smartphone have appeared on the Web, showing a standard Android phone with a Motorola logo at the top left of the device's screen and the words "Motorola Confidential Property" along the screen's bottom edge ...

A busy week on the U.S. cybersecurity front is pointing toward a renewed emphasis on the nation's digital defenses, a shift underscored by Tuesday's Senate testimony from a top security official that ranked hackers and cyberattacks as greater threats to the country than Al Qaeda and terrorism "Right now the U.S. simply doesn't have a mature capabil...

The Federal Trade Commission released its updated Dot Com Disclosures guidance on Tuesday, emphasizing the requirements for advertisers targeting mobile devices. In short, the rules that apply to ads in newspapers, radio and television also apply to mobile devices and social media. The update is the first since the guidelines were released in 200...

The Fate of T-Mobile Deal Now in the Hands of MetroPCS Shareholders Following Tuesday's final approval by the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, the focus now shifts to some MetroPCS shareholders who have raised last-minute objections to their proposed merger with T-Mobile The wireless carriers announced the deal ...

Movie and TV buffs will soon be able to share what they've watched on Netflix more easily, the service announced Wednesday. Users in the United States will be able to take advantage of "frictionless sharing" with their friends on Facebook in the coming days The sharing will be available only on Netflix by default. Users will be able to allow their...

Computer printers aren't typically linked with the word "subversive," but that's the mission of a new site for 3D printer files Defcad was announced Tuesday at the South by Southwest Interactive conference. It is designed to give 3D printer enthusiasts access to files that allow them to create objects with their printers -- even if those objects ar...

Police in Los Angeles have teamed with the FBI to investigate Russian hackers suspected of stealing and posting sensitive information about Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, law enforcement officials and Hollywood celebrities The material in question was posted on a website using .su as a suffix -- reportedly a tip-off that the perpetrators have a Russian...

Google has settled its Street View privacy case with 38 states and the District of Columbia. As part of the settlement, the company will destroy the personal information it collected under the project, train its employees on privacy issues for a 10-year period, launch a campaign to educate consumers on WiFi security, and pay a US$7 million fine. ...

The social bookmarking site Pinterest, one of the fastest-growing social networks of the last two years, released a new analytics tool Tuesday so that users -- especially businesses and marketing professionals -- can do a better job of tracking traffic and sharing aspects of the site Pinterest Web Analytics tools are available to users with a verif...

It appears Yahoo may be interested in acquiring Zynga. Both companies have been through rough patches in recent times, but Zynga's stock actually spiked 10 percent earlier this week following speculation in a research note by Wunderlich Securities analyst Blake Harper Yahoo has been undergoing a number of changes since Marissa Mayer took over as C...

There are more than 6 billion mobile devices in the world, says Wikipedia. As of last July, there were more than 321 million wireless subscriber connections in the U.S. alone, according to CTIA-The Wireless Association. Of course, it is impossible that 101 percent of U.S. residents have wireless connections, so that means many of us have multiple subscriptions...

"Who is the customer?" It's a great question, one that my managers liked to ask when I was a young sales representative. Like all great questions, it got to the meat of the matter with an economy of words that were as impressive as much for their brevity as for their meaning The customer's identity is often far from obvious, and it's why profession...

The creators ofNirvana Editor, or NEdit for short, consider it paradise for writers. I found, however, that it's not yet the perfect text editor....

One of the killer features in the Firefox Web browser is its ability to sync betweendesktops and mobile devices Well, you don't have to stop there. Firefox's desktop Web ecosystem includes add-onsthat will let you sync open tabs across other ecosystems, like over to Chrome; keepfavorite Firefox extensions synced with all your computers; sync passwo...

A new smartphone app and plug-in device unveiled Tuesday promises to give cars some of the same tech-based features available only from certain factory models or through services like OnStar Automatic Labs announced the Automatic Link, a combination iOS app and dongle for automotive diagnostics. The device only works if the owner's iPhone with the ...

Android tablets -- especially those with smaller screens -- will continue to gain market share this year at the expense of the iPad, which is expected to give up its spot as the No. 1 tablet platform, according to a report released Tuesday by research firm IDC The trend toward screens measuring 7-8 inches will drive worldwide tablet shipments to 19...

It is possible to predict intimate personal characteristics such as sexual orientation by studying a person's Facebook Likes, according to findings released Monday by University of Cambridge researchers Just by studying Likes, the team was able to determine a person's race, age, IQ, personality type, level of substance use and political views....

Lenovo's CEO told a French newspaper this week that the computer maker would be open to exploring a BlackBerry buyout It is not the first time a Lenovo executive has publicly stated interest in the struggling smartphone company. In January, Chief Financial Officer Won Wai Ming said his company was exploring a variety of opportunities, including a B...

The mean cyborg of Terminator 2 was unstoppable until it was immersed in a vat of molten iron. It might have survived, however, if it had self-healing processors at its core like the ones announced Monday by a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology The researchers said they had built tiny power amplifiers for chips that recov...

Researchers at Japan's University of Tsukuba grad school have launched a virtual private network that could allow Chinese netizens to get around the country's zealous Internet police The VPN is free and utilizes volunteers who have different Internet service providers around the world. As of early Tuesday morning, there were 87 public VPN servers b...