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Adobe has reported a vulnerability in several of its applications. The flaw, which Adobe rates as "critical," exists in Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x running on most operating systems It could crash a victim's PC and let hackers take over the machine....

Starting this week, people who use both Yahoo and Facebook can link their accounts and share updates with friends across both networks, Yahoo announced on Monday Representing the next phase of a partnership Yahoo forged with the social networking site last December, the newly tightened integration also means that users who connect their accounts ca...

If you're a parent of young children and you've sat through any number of bad "family" movies during a crowded matinee, then you've probably thanked Disney/Pixar for conjuring up the likes of Buzz Lightyear and Woody, Nemo and Dory, Mike and Sully, Mr. Incredible, Wall-E, Lightning McQueen and Remy the gourmand rat Of course, those same parents are...

As a wide-eyed 17-year-old business undergrad living in Montreal, Canada, I was given a unique opportunity to make some well-needed spending money by buying and selling liquidations of branded t-shirts. The proposal put before me was simple enough; I would purchase 1,200 t-shirts from a Quebec-based liquidator, and open a small eBay shop in order to unload them on the open market...

Making better business decisions is all about understanding what's happening today and then properly applying that knowledge to improve what will likely happen tomorrow. Because business leaders want this improved power, we've recently seen a resurgence of interest and coverage in predictive analytics. This interest is aided substantially because ...

Watching BP try to plug the biggest oil spill in history while staging photo ops for the media feels like watching a new definition of evil unfold -- until the realization sets in that we're likely watching the death of a company. "Evil" has been used to describe Microsoft, and Google wrote it into its mission statement as something it wouldn't d...

It will probably come as a surprise to the millions of people who have already purchased one, but the Apple iPad is just another PC, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who made the comments this week during a recent on-stage interview at the D8 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif "Of course it is," Ballmer told Wall Street Journal tech ...

Google will turn over data it collected from unsecured WiFi networks to authorities in Germany, France and Spain. This is the latest development in a controversy that began last month with Google's admission that cars gathering images for its Street View service were equipped with devices that captured information leaking from unsecured WiFi netwo...

Sprint on Friday launched the HTC Evo 4G smartphone to a chorus of mixed reviews ...

As landing a high ranking through search engine optimization grows more competitive by the day, often blocking small-to-medium-sized enterprises from achieving top spots online, more businesses are turning to social media to find new customers Many customers, meanwhile, are also starting use the search functions on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn i...

Digital signage is a combination of electronic display devices and content that delivers information, advertising and other messages to a broad or narrow target audience. The benefits of digital signage over traditional static signs are centered on two basic concepts: ...

Talk about dealing from a position of strength: Apple and Steve Jobs enter next week's Worldwide Developers Conference as kings of the tech industry hill, makers of must-have consumer products and generators of must-read technosphere headlines "Strength" might be the last word you would choose to describe Jobs if physical appearance alone is the st...

A group of high-tech firms, led by ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, have formed a nonprofit organization to promote the use of Linux software on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. To that end, the organization, called "Linaro," will develop tools, applications, kernel, graphics and boot cod...

Facebook is responding to yet another "clickjacking" attack, following similar attacks that reportedly impacted thousands over the weekend This particular form of clickjacking baits the hook by purporting to link to a subject Facebook users might find interesting. The latest attack consists of a link that appears to point to a website displaying a ...

It's no secret that the smartphone is fast becoming the hottest product in the mobile device market. What hasn't been so obvious is exactly what people are doing with their smartphones A Nielsen survey seeking answers to that question has produced what might be surprising results. For instance, the survey revealed that social networking -- and spec...

Walt Disney Co. has quietly developed an application for Facebook that marries e-commerce functionality with social marketing. Disney Tickets Together, which debuted last week, lets people pre-order tickets to the upcoming "Toy Story 3" movie directly from the application. While engaging in the purchasing process, moviegoers are asked which of their Facebook friends they wants to invite. They can also push news of ticket purchases to their Facebook wall if they want to.

Four out of five consumers don't know the speed of their broadband connections. Do they care? Apparently not -- but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does, and it's starting two projects to clarify how fast U.S. broadband speeds are In a survey released Tuesday on consumer broadband experience, the FCC found that 80 percent of consumer br...

Today, technology is wonderfully ubiquitous. It runs our electric grids, keeps planes from crashing into one another, and puts the most treasured asset of all, information, at our fingertips. Yes, we are extremely fortunate that knowledge (information) is so easy to get and so easy to transfer and pass on to others. There was a time when the only ...

At this year's CA World 2010 event in Las Vegas, the company unveiled its cloud management road map, along with a working plan for a family of new solutions that will form its CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite in the months to come. That's not the only change that CA Technologies brought to the agenda. With a new CEO on board, aggressive acquis...

At this year's CA World 2010 event in Las Vegas, the company unveiled its cloud management road map, along with a working plan for a family of new solutions that will form its CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite in the months to come. That's not the only change that CA Technologies brought to the agenda. With a new CEO on board, aggressive acquis...