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FBI Director James Comey on Thursday strongly criticized Apple and Google for hardening information stored in smartphones by encrypting data, making it inaccessible to law enforcement even with a court order. The FBI has had conversations with both Apple and Google over the encryption features, Come...
Researchers on Thursday discovered proof-of-concept code that could take advantage of unpatched computer systems, and found evidence of attacks exploiting the BASH Shellshock bug in the wild. Shellshock, revealed Wednesday, could become a major threat to Linux/Unix and Apple operating systems if pub...
Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi Model B+ powered build-your-own-laptop kit, soon could enable users to learn computer programming, designing and 3D-printing skills. The Pi-Top team recently released details on its construction of a prototype computer. The developers plan to use the model in a Kickstarter cam...
A developing technology using an ultra-thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure could start revolutionizing consumer electronics and many other industries in less than five years. Known as "graphene," the material's special strength and conductivity make it an ideal component of ...
The Samsung Galaxy Note II could very well be the best high-end smartphone/phablet on the market today. It brings the best features of Android Jelly Bean to this combination of high-powered tablet and state-of-the-art phone. The Note II has so many things to like, but if you have a phobia for reall...
Computer users today face a new round of attacks that pose new challenges to both consumers and businesses. These new attack vectors often sidestep traditional security defenses. Hackers, supported by international crime gangs with deep pockets, are accosting consumers and office workers with sophis...
Security concerns continue to be among the main forces preventing businesses from furthering their investments in cloud computing. That's one of the reasons behind the Open Security Foundation's new Cloutage project.
A yet-unseen malware variant dubbed "Typhoid adware" could allow cyberattackers to prey on portable computer users tethered to unsecured WiFi connections at Internet cafes and other public places. This potential threat is lurking wherever consumers gather to use free Internet access points.
The PDF format is now the standard for publishing and print-based industries. As you would expect, numerous free and inexpensive PDF readers are available, but relatively few inexpensive PDF creator apps exist. Word-processing programs such as Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer have features that ...
Symantec announced on Tuesday four new security and compliance software suites that it claims remedy the most common security shortcomings exploited by today's targeted attacks. These latest software security products complement the company's four-pronged approach based on the phases of a targeted b...
Toyota's recent fiascoes with runaway acceleration illuminate the sorry lack of software standards to establish minimum quality levels for technologies crucial to the operation of transportation systems.
Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, a new Internet networking architecture that is designed with the huge growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services in mind. The Cisco CRS-3 provides more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest com...
Lenovo on Tuesday introduced six new products to set the stage for the PC maker's Think platform for 2010. The additions to the Think lineup include five laptops and a server, all of which target both enterprise business and SMB users. The line boasts a new ultraportable laptop and a server costing ...
Some service providers have targeted the small-biz sector with VPN systems that SMBs may be able to slip into more comfortably.
StarTech.com's new DisplayPort KVM Switch helped me solve a computing problem I did not realize I had. The company's KVM Switch provides direct connections to monitors and computers without using a converter. The DisplayPort KVM Switch let me control two DisplayPort-capable computers with a single k...
Tremont Electric may very well be traveling along the same path once crossed by the Little Engine That Could. The two-year-old startup is headed where several other power generation companies want to go but have yet to get off the research and development tracks. If the inventor and developer of th...
Using the latest version of the Opera Web Browser is like meeting up with an old friend and finding out he or she now has issues with the relationship. Opera 10.10 has several impressive new features, but a few glitches really limit the usefulness of this version. In fact, the only way for me to con...
Data mining is becoming a crowded field filled with software providers using similar strategies. Their basic goal is always the same. The analytics platforms are designed to slice and dice data to make sales trends and buying opportunities more evident. The firms that can deliver this product more a...
Lunascape, a newcomer to the growing field of Web browsers, released its official/stable version of Lunascape 6 Orion on Friday, a little more than one month after introducing the Alpha version. Orion is an innovative browser that could easily win over users from popular browsers Firefox and Opera.
In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds -- Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary software. Other topics, though, don't see nearly the same level of high-profile debate. Take the invulnerabil...
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