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The hacker community appears to be divided over a break-in suffered last week by Sega's database The hack reportedly led to the theft of the emails, addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of about 1.3 million members of the Sega Pass online network....

You may soon be able to get a designer Internet address -- e.g., you.yourname -- for a mere US$185,000 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board of directors has approved a plan to implement some of the biggest changes ever to the Internet's Domain Name System. The board approved a plan to allow an increase in the number...

A new malware attack aimed at stealing BitCoin wallets is on the loose, according to information released by security firm Symantec. The attack has led to reports of at least one theft amounting to approximately US$500,000 BitCoins are a form of virtual currency. The relatively unregulated method of trading that appeals to so many users comes with ...

Amazon's self-publishing e-book platform appears to be overrun by spam or low-quality e-books, according to an analysis of the ecosystem by Reuters. Of the thousands of digital books being published through Amazon's self-publishing system each month, many are spam, either developed via Private Label Rights or even using toolkits that help people p...

Fact #1: Facebook's iPhone app is one of that platform's all-time most popular applications. Fact #2: Apple's iPad has been on the market for well over year Why, then, does Facebook still have no native app specifically built for the Apple tablet?...

Customer experience can make or break a company, and today's service failures are often publicly played out online for the world -- and competitors -- to see. At the same time, the pressure to manage costs has never been greater, but it's a fatal mistake to view customer service channels as a cost center. The solution? An at-home workforce that delivers excellent results:...

Last week, HP started down the unfortunate path of taking Oracle to court over the statements it has made about Itanium, the technology HP shares with Intel. This is reminding me a lot of an ugly divorce -- and given that the 140,000 customers Oracle and HP share are kind of like their kids, I think some strong parallels can be drawn. I'll close ...

It's time for corporations to wise up and use the latest, most effective weapons to safeguard and secure their data. High-tech devices, software applications, emails, user accounts, social media and networks -- even those presumed safe -- are being hacked with alarming alacrity and ease. ...

The hacker group LulzSec has been carrying out a security-busting blitzkrieg across the Web over the last few weeks, and its targets are getting bigger and bigger. You can tell where it's been by the path of sites left shivering in a fetal position -- sites belonging to organizations like PBS, Sony, Bethesda Softworks, and even the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...

Research In Motion released quarterly revenue estimates that were below expectations, lowered its earnings forecast, and announced it would be cutting jobs on Thursday, leading to a stock nosedive. The BlackBerry producer's shares tumbled to below US$28 on Friday -- the lowest level in nearly five years. Some of the company's major stockholders ar...

News of two cybersecurity efforts undertaken by the United States government surfaced Friday One is the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cyber Pilot, in which the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will share classified threat information and the knowledge of how to use that with participa...

Internet radio provider Pandora has taken a harsh beating in its first few days on Wall Street. After a short-lived initial pop that boosted its share value from its debut of US$16 to a peak of over $24 on Wednesday, shares sunk sunk throughout the day Thursday and into mid-day Friday, where they hovered around $13 Pandora, which provides online pe...

Like a lot of people, I was bit stunned to see headlines early this week proclaiming Facebook is losing members. In many cases, those reporting this story also were asking whether it means Facebook is heading toward a decline. My take is that Facebook is in no more danger of going under today than it was yesterday, which is to say that it's still ...

This week, Take-Two subsidiary2K Games and independent developer Gearbox Software debuted "Duke Nukem Forever" for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. For the game's developers, it was a momentous occasion. Fans had been waiting 15 years in video game purgatory, they said, for the launch of the mythical Duke Nukem game.

Listrak has incorporated new features into its email marketing platform that give its users analytic and behavioral targeting capabilities. It also has brought more oomph to its shopping cart abandonment dashboard by developing more granular metrics for it. ...

Google's soon-to-be-released Nexus 4G smartphone is going to have a dual-core processor, a very large screen, and high-definition video capture capabilities, according to a post on Boy Genius Report It's not yet clear whether Google will offer the device under its own brand or will work closely with a device maker to create a flagship device the wa...

More than 50 years ago, Ayn Rand graphically illustrated the collapse of an economic system that failed to reward individual initiative. In Atlas Shrugged, innovators are penalized for their creativity, and their rewards are indiscriminately distributed to the worthy and unworthy, leading inevitably to the breakdown of the entire economic system T...

On Thursday, IBM rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of 100 years since its founding. The company evolved from a pre-World War I alliance of firms manufacturing tabulating machines and clocks into a global computer giant that helped to usher in the modern age IBM boasts an impressive number of patents and has improve...

Facebook is working on an HTML 5-based platform code-named "Project Spartan" that will seek to distribute apps to iDevices, TechCrunch has reported The project purportedly has about 80 outside developers, including people from Zynga and Huffington Post, creating a variety of apps for the upcoming platform....

Federal legislation aimed at eliminating loopholes that allow companies like Google and Apple track users using GPS location-based technology was proposed by Senators Al Franken, D-Minn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Wednesday If signed into law, the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011 could force companies to obtain explicit consent fro...