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This past week brought a plethora of cybersecurity news, with attackers going after everything from gaming platforms to advertisers' checkbooks Steam, the massive gaming site that's part of Valve, got hacked, potentially endangering its 35 million members....

Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet will be arriving on consumers' doorsteps a day earlier than planned, the company announced Monday, and reviewers have wasted no time sharing their own early thoughts about the new device Originally planned for shipment on Tuesday to those who preordered it, the 7-inch, Android-powered device began shipping on Monday ...

Google scientists are laboring away on futuristic projects in a top-secret lab somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, The New York Times claims This lab, which is apparently so hush-hush that few Googlers even knew it existed prior to the report, is allegedly called "Google X."

Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is gaining more interest from application developers. In fact, it's captured more developer mindshare than Research In Motion's older and more widespread BlackBerry platform, according to a recent study. The third-quarter 2011 results of a survey by Appcelerator and IDC revealed that the Windows Phone platform ha...

A Chevy Volt that caught fire in the parking lot of a crash test site has prompted a federal probe over the safety and protocol of handling lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles The investigation will include automakers GM, Nissan, Ford and other manufacturers planning to sell vehicles with lithium-ion batteries.

Everybody knows that the cloud -- in particular, the security of cloud deployments -- is a huge pain point industry-wide. And as is the case with any new endeavor with such broad-sweeping impact, there's no shortage of well-meaning advice about how to secure it. But I confess to finding much of that advice about cloud security somewhat frustrati...

You have probably transacted business with Paciolan at some point in your life, even if you don't recognize the name. Perhaps you did it just by purchasing event tickets ...

The current generation of smartphones is a bit of a kludge. They require a lot of text entry, but most don't have keyboards. As a result, they generally suck at it. Siri, Apple's new voice-command technology, points the way to a future that is more like the past, where phones are good at what phones have always been good at -- voice -- and typing may become, at least on smartphones, a thing of the past. ...

The industry roils with definitions and explanations of cloud. These definitions come from product vendors cloud-washing their products, cloud providers positioning their cloud infrastructure, IT teams attempting to cloud-paint their efforts in virtualization, and even from consultants writing articles like this This article will examine the essenc...

It's hard to imagine how Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca could have been clearer, if a transcript of his recent remarks during an investor day conference call is accurate. He called the implementation of his company's Revue Google TV device a mistake "of a gigantic nature" that cost Logitech dearly Logitech, De Luca said, wrongly expected consumers w...

Citigroup has reached an agreement to sell its music label, EMI Group, in two parts for a total of US$4.1 billion. Universal Music Group has announced it is buying EMI's recorded music division for $1.9 billion Sony/ATV, according to news reports, has nabbed -- or is poised to nab shortly -- EMI's publishing line of business, the copyrights for the...

Up to 35 million gamers with accounts on Steam, the multiplayer and digital games distribution platform developed by Valve, may be at risk following a breach of its database Information in the database included usernames, passwords, data on members' game purchases, and members' email and billing addresses and encrypted credit card information, Valv...

Nearly two years after consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's privacy policies, the social network and the FTC are close to an agreement, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal The deal between the company and the commission will reportedly require Facebook to enact widespread o...

Google has acquired a startup called Apture that provides a new type of search functionality beneficial to publishers -- or anyone, that is, who hates to see Web users leave a page's content to search out related information Apture has developed technology that displays links to related information in the content, without forcing the reader to navi...

Oracle's recent acquisition of RightNow raises a question: Can multiple cloud companies be merged together to form a tightly coupled suite of solutions like those which were promised but never delivered during the client-server era? On the face of things, it would appear that merging cloud companies together should be relatively easy and straightfo...

FriendCaster Pro, an app from OneLouder, is available for US$4.99 at theAndroid Market....

Data integration is critical for companies that need to combine systems and databases after a merger or acquisition, or need to link legacy systems to new business applications. This need is vast throughout commercial and public industries, and the task can be daunting, especially for CIOs and IT managers of small- to medium-sized businesses, whose IT staffs and budgets may be constrained. Add to that the rise of cloud-based data integration services and the decision becomes even more confusing: ...

The Senate defeated a Republican bid to overturn Net neutrality rules on Thursday, thus paving the way for the regulations to take effect on Nov. 20 In a 52-to-46 vote along party lines, senators rejected S.J. Res. 6, the resolution proposed earlier this year by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) under the Congressional Review Act. Hutchison and ot...

Research In Motion's upcoming next set of smartphones, which will run its next-generation BBX operating system, will represent a departure from the company's lonstanding design aesthetics, typified by the BlackBerry Bold, according to a report in PC Magazine. However, the upcoming phones will still support BlackBerry's core enterprise email features...

Amazon has purchased Yap, a voice recognition startup, according to an SEC filing. The move added to speculation that Amazon is preparing a voice-command service similar to Apple's Siri or Google Android's Voice Actions The transaction was apparently completed in September, but a public statement has not been made by either company. Yap merged with...