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Skype is investigating a tool published recently on Pastebin that captures the last-known IP address of the VoIP service's users "This is an ongoing, industry-wide issue faced by all peer-to-peer software companies," Adrian Asher, Skype's director of product security, told TechNewsWorld. "We are committed to the safety and security of our customers...

The England and Wales High Court has ordered that Internet service providers in the UK must block access to The Pirate Bay The High Court ruled in February that the site and its users were in violation of copyright law and followed with the court order Monday commanding ISPs to restrict access to the site....

The Oracle and Google legal teams delivered their closing arguments Monday in the high-profile trial over allegations Google violated Oracle's copyright on Java, and the case was sent to the jury. Their respective lines of reasoning built on developments brought to light in the trial, with the usual oratory flourishes attorneys tend to indulge in....

Research In Motion officially unveiled new BlackBerry software Tuesday at the company's annual conference for developers, corporate customers and the media. President and CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage at BlackBerryWorld 2012 in Orlando, Fla., to officially introduce the new operating system to developers While it has been in closed tests with a...

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Small CRM players have a chance to get their names out in the market if they win top spot at the second annual CRM Idol competition, which kicked off Monday Hopefuls have until 6 p.m. Pacific time on May 25 to file their submissions.

Microsoft on Monday said it will pay US$300 million to get a piece of Barnes & Noble's Nook tablet action for the Windows 8 platform The two companies will partner in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary which will push further into the education market....

Tim Shriver likes to talk to his house. "Turn the porch light on at 3 p.m.," he says through an intercom to the female voice that belongs to his house. She confirms that she will make sure the light comes on as instructed.

Google is trying to do damage control and prove it had no nefarious goals with its ambitious Street View project, following an FCC into the search giant's collection and storage of data from millions of unknowing households across the country The Federal Communications Commission determined in its report that the data collection was not illegal; ho...

Samsung's first quarter earnings suggest that it has reached a significant milestone: It could be the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, topping Apple in market reach. In this case, "suggest" is the operative word.

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists That was one of the findings in cybersecurity firm Bit9's annual security survey released last week....

Social Dynamx has just launched a new enterprise-class social customer care (social CRM) platform that will allow customer support and community management teams to identify, prioritize and handle millions of one-on-one customer social media conversations daily As a subscription-based platform, it is designed to quickly identify relevant conversati...

Last week, I was at the Dell annual Industry Analyst Conference, and it suddenly struck me that we are looking at a very different technology market this decade. Apple is expected to slide, largely due to the firm's inability to replace Steve Jobs; the dynamic that created Microsoft is changing, and analysts are questioning the firm's relevance as Dell and HP ramp up their own software efforts. ...

Business-to-business selling on the Internet, or B2B e-commerce, is one of the fastest growing segments of the small-business marketplace. As businesses flock to the Internet to find vendors for essential products and services, B2B e-commerce is rapidly expanding, both in terms of total revenue and the number of small B2B firms operating in the digital space...

Interest in the United States Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust probe into Google was given a jolt with the commission's decision to enlist seasoned white-collar crime litigator Beth Wilkinson to head the investigation "When we have the opportunity to augment our team by bringing on a lawyer with Beth Wilkinson's skills, judgment and exper...

On Thursday the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) despite continued controversy regarding privacy concerns and even a threat of veto from the White House. The measure, which was approved by a 248-168 vote, would make it easier for the federal government as well as corporations in the private ...

The Next Web, a network of online technology outlets, continued its annual conference Friday in Amsterdam Heeding to Amsterdam's night life, The Next Web waited until 10 a.m. to get things started, which was probably just about as early as the sleep-deprived attendees could have hacked it....

Amazon's first fiscal quarter surprised shareholders Thursday by beating performance expectations. Investors sent shares upward even though the online retailer reported a 35 percent drop in net income. Amazon announced a net income of US$130 million, or 28 cents a share, for its latest fiscal quarter. That's down from the $201 million, or 44 cents...

Walmart is targeting an interesting customer segment -- shoppers with access to the Internet but perhaps no credit card to use for purchases -- with its newly launched "Pay with Cash" initiative. It allows a customer to shop at the Walmart.com website and then pay for the order at a local Walmart store. Walmart will then ship the order to the customer.

In the rush to play in the Big Data game, it's easy to forget the fundamentals. The fear of being left behind can cause enterprise IT teams to move directly into pilot projects with a choice of products and technologies that may not be best designed to solve the identified business problem. For example, because Hadoop has become such a popular tech buzzword, many organizations are racing to implement this Big Data platform before properly understanding their goal. A mismatch can often result.