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Valve To Put Steam Behind VR Efforts With New Headset

Valve on Monday announced that it's getting into the virtual reality hardware business ...

YouTube Targets the Mother Goose Set

Google on Monday announced YouTube Kids, a new mobile app designed to deliver family-friendly video content. ...

Lenovo Rapped for Preinstalling Spyware

Lenovo on Thursday came under fire for preinstalling spyware on some of its laptops ...

Apple Awarded Patent for Hybrid VR Headset

Apple has been awarded a patent for a virtual reality headset that can use an iPhone or iPod as a display ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Encryption Can Create Stormy Weather in the Cloud

Encryption has received a lot of attention lately as a solution to the growing data breach problem, but one of the hang-ups dogging the technology has been its ability to play nice in the cloud ...

Facebook Lets Members Prepare for the Digital Beyond

Facebook on Thursday announced a new feature for members who want to plan for their passing into the digital beyond ...

Box to Let Enterprises Bring Their Own Keys to the Cloud

Box on Tuesday raised the curtain on a new offering that allows its enterprise customers to control the digital keys used to encrypt their data stored in the storage provider's cloud ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Bug Bounties Entice Researchers to Don White Hats

Bug bounty programs are used by individual software makers to improve the quality of their products, but they can have incidental benefits for all software makers, too. One of those is to encourage bug hunters to wear a white hat instead of a black one ...

Report: Connected Vehicles Vulnerable to Hack Attacks

Motorists in the United States are increasingly at risk of cyberattacks and violations of privacy, as more and more technology is added to their cars ...

FCC Chair Submits New Approach for Net Neutrality

Some proposed rules that the Federal Communication Commission maintains will prevent content discrimination on the Internet drew fire on Thursday from two policy interest groups ...

Promoted Tweets Fly the Coop

With Wall Street breathing down its neck for growth, Twitter on Tuesday launched a new advertising initiative that aims to boost revenues and add to its more than 284 million members ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Is the FTC Jumping the Gun on IoT Security?

For months, the security community has been waving a red flag about how the nascent Internet of Things could become a cybercriminal's paradise. Last week, those admonitions were given some credence when the Federal Trade Commission recommended that the makers of IoT gadgets adopt some "best practices" to protect consumers from potential violations of their privacy and security...

Google Expands Bug Bounty Program

Since 2010, when it began paying security researchers to find flaws in its programs, Google has paid more than US$4 million to bug hunters. Now it's prepared to pay even more ...

Amazon WorkMail Lifts Back-End Email Burden From IT’s Shoulders

Amazon on Wednesday announced WorkMail, a play for the enterprise email market. Offered by Amazon Web Services, WorkMail is aimed at companies that want to move their on-premises email services to the cloud ...

Twitter Adds Cliques and Flicks

Twitter on Tuesday announced two new offerings that could bolster its efforts to compete with Facebook. The new tools will let users create private groups of up to 20 members; they also will be able to shoot, edit and share video from within Twitter's mobile app ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

POS Terminals Rich Vein for Gold-Digging Hackers

Hackers are like gold miners. Once they find a rich vein for their malware, they mine it until it's dry.Point-of-sale terminals are such a vein, and it doesn't appear that it's one that's about to run dry any time soon ...

Wikileaks Steamed Over Google’s Lengthy Silence on FBI Snooping

Google may have contributed to violating the First Amendment rights of three journalists working for WikiLeaks two and a half years ago, when it turned over to the FBI all their email, subscriber information and metadata ...

Chen Calls on Congress to Mandate BlackBerry Apps

BlackBerry CEO John Chen set off a barrage of online chatter Wednesday when he proposed that any rules the United States adopts to preserve Net neutrality also should guarantee application neutrality ...

Report: Dumb Password Use on the Decline

Millions of Net surfers use obvious passwords to log on to websites, but their numbers appear to be declining ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Businesses Waste Big Bucks Fighting Phantom Cyberattacks

Businesses spend an average of US$1.27 million a year chasing cyberthreats that turn out to be dead ends. That is one of the findings in a report released last week on the cost of containing malware ...

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