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Cloud security skeptics were given yet another reason to doubt the fortitude of online storage when the strange tale of Mat Honan emerged earlier this month. Through the clever use of social engineering, a hacker was able to wreak havoc on the Wired journalist's digital life Apparently, the hacker talked Amazon tech support into providing the last ...

Dropbox has unveiled an experimental build that adds two-factor authentication to subscribers' accounts Subscribers can try out build 1.5.12, and Dropbox is asking those who are experimenting with it for their comments....

There was rather an exact price offered and accepted for About.com. OnSunday The New York Times Company announced that it had sold thequestion and answer website to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp (IAC)for US$300 million in cash The site's early expertise in search engine optimization and revenues from cost-per-click and display ads made it avaluabl...

It is the end of an era. One of the last cases in which the Recording Industry Association of America sued an individual for illegal song sharing has reached the end of its road in a federal court in Massachusetts. There, the jury upheld a US$675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum following the directed guilty verdict in his 2009 trial and numerous appeals...

Research released last week fingered the iPhone as the source of a text messaging exploit that could be used to steal sensitive information from smartphone users or work mischief on their hardware The flaw, revealed by a well-known security researcher and jailbreaker of iPhones, involves the "reply to" line in SMS messages....

Kana Software is pushing into the mid-market space with a new offering called "Kana Express." ...

The reason we keep asking about Google and evil is because early in their existence they appeared to create a policy of not being evil. This was most unusual, but since then the invasions of privacy and moves like taking self-driving cars on the road without approval in early testing seemed to test that definition. The reason car companies do...

Real-time bidding (RTB) will be a significant factor in fulfilling the promise of online digital advertising, which has been on the cusp of dramatic changes for many years. RTB, as defined by Parks Associates, describes the automated process of buying and selling online display advertising in real time, and it incorporates enhanced solutions in ta...

Speeding Up Your PC, Part 2: Clean Up Your Hard Drive Lots of people think that updates aren't really that important. In the past, updating a program often involved implementing small features or fixes that, most of the time, didn't seem worth the bother. While this may still be true for some applications, there's no doubt that updates are crucial ...

Amazon has a big announcement to make on Sept. 6, according to invitations to an upcoming event in Santa Monica the company recently sent Amazon's announcement will come about a year after the online retailer launched the Kindle Fire. The timing has given rise to speculation that this time Amazon plans to announced an upgrade to the tablet -- and p...

Consumers are becoming increasingly accustomed to being able to consume online content at the time they want and on the device they want -- and that device now includes the television set, according to a new study by NPD It found that while desktop PCs and laptops are still the primary source for viewing online content, mobile devices such as tabl...

For years, satellite communications devices like satphones and data terminals have been out of reach of the average consumer. Access to voice calls and Internet in remote locales, where mobile phone networks are unavailable, have only been possible for military, media, mining, government and other deep-pocketed sectors....

Facebook has given its Messages feature a redesign, endowing it with a two-panel layout that makes the social network's private communication platform look more like an e-mail client than its previous single-column interface. The revamped Facebook Messages has two sides. On the left, users will see a small panel that shows the latest contents of t...

It seems so easy and so simple. Federal agencies should put most of their efforts into their missions and use management tools which enable them to meet mission goals. One such tool is cloud technology -- an "on demand" option for information technology services In concept, the simplicity of using on-demand IT pretty much the way water comes from a...

Customer satisfaction with the credit card industry has stabilized after years of dramatic changes to the space, according to J.D. Power and Associates' 2012 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction study. It found that for the third consecutive year, customers' satisfaction with their credits cards has increased This year overall credit card satisfaction clo...

WeatherBug Elite, an app from Earth, is available for US$1.99 at Google Play....

Weeks after removing its find-friends feature from Instagram, Twitter has done the same to blogging service Tumblr Twitter's already changed the rules for app developers in version 1.1 of its API, which is coming soon....

While the upcoming Windows 8 promises big changes to the interface as well as the visual look of Microsoft's operating system, the company on Thursday opted to introduce another change -- to its Windows logo. This one is subtle, yet notable as it has been 25 years since the last change ...

Nokia may be battered, bleeding and losing money hand over fist, but it's not out for the count. The company will unveil two new Windows Phone 8 devices at a press conference to be held jointly with Microsoft in New York Sept. 5, The Verge has reported One device is reportedly code-named "Arrow," the other "Phi." Both are apparently part of the Lum...

Facebook is integrating sponsored results into its search function as part of the social network's ongoing effort to increase advertising revenue. The ads appear when a user looks for a person, place, app or other item through Facebook's search bar. Advertisers can choose which search terms to target with their ads. They pop up ahead of the other ...