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CVS, Rite Aid Kick Apple Pay to the Curb

Consumers who had been using Apple Pay at CVS and Rite Aid received a rude shock over the weekend when the chains turned off the technology at their stores across the U.S. ...

Google’s Inbox: Beginning of the End of Email as We Know It?

Google on Wednesday introduced Inbox, a free mobile app that aims to separate the email wheat from the chaff. It's currently available to Android and iPhone users on an invitation-only basis ...

Smart Nightlight Calls Your iPhone When Smoke, CO Alarms Start Wailing

Leeo on Tuesday introduced the Smart Alert Nightlight, a US$99 gadget that can detect when the alarm sounds from a smoke or carbon monoxide detector and send alerts to an iPhone ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Black Box Keeps Cybersnoops in Dark

Following Edward Snowden's revelations about indiscriminate government snooping on U.S. citizens, many Net surfers would like to find a way to lower their visibility on the Internet. There are a number of tools in cyberspace that can help a soul do that, but they can take time and savvy to set up. That's why Kerry Cox launched the Sierra Project ...

Apple Blows the Dust Off iPad, iMac Models

Apple on Thursday held a new product event on its campus in Cupertino, California, where the stars of the show were a thinner version of its iPad tablet and a 27-inch iMac desktop with a display that has 67 percent more pixels than a 4K TV ...

Skype Qik Video Chat: Shoot, Send, Vaporize

Microsoft on Tuesday released Skype Qik, a new mobile chat app that features short, self-destructing video messages that automatically self-destruct in two weeks -- or sooner if set to do so ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Spam Still Packs a Punch

The days of in-boxes flooded with spam messages on an assortment of sordid subjects are a faint memory to most email users, but what spam has lost in volume it's gained in power ...

Apple Faithful Prepare to Not Be Dazzled

If you're looking for an extravaganza on the scale of last month's new iPhone unveiling, chances are you won't find it at Apple's "Way Too Long" event to be held Thursday in the Town Hall auditorium at its Cupertino headquarters ...

HTC Breaks From Pack With Selfie Phone, Blind Cam

HTC on Thursday debuted two new products for photography enthusiasts. One offering, the RE, is an L-shaped camera that doesn't have a viewfinder. The other is a new smartphone, the Desire Eye, which boasts a 13-megapixel front-facing camera for high-resolution selfies ...

GT Files for Chap 11 After Apple’s Sapphire Interest Wanes

GT Advanced Technologies and seven of its direct and indirect subsidiaries on Monday announced they had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Phishers Find Apple Most Tasty Target

"Follow the money" isn't just the war cry of journalistic bloodhounds hot on the trail of political corruption. It's the mantra of Web predators, too. That's why PayPal consistently has been the top brand targeted by phishers -- although that appears to have changed ...

Apple Shrinks Market for Stolen iPhones

Apple on Thursday closed a gap in its efforts to combat mobile device theft with the announcement of a service for checking the Activation Lock status of its iPhone, iPad and iPod product lines ...

PayPal, eBay Headed for Splitsville

eBay on Tuesday announced that its 12-year marriage to PayPal was coming to an end. The move comes mere months after eBay beat down an attempt by corporate raider Carl Icahn to peel PayPal from the online auction site ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Consumers Fed Up With Data Breaches

With news of massive data breaches becoming almost a weekly occurrence, consumers are beginning to lose their patience with the custodians of their personal information ...

Banks, Businesses Scramble to Smash Bash Shellshock Bug

Banks and businesses toiled over the weekend to crush a bug in a widely used open source operating system ...

Apple Redoubles Efforts to Fix iOS 8 Glitches

Apple on Thursday announced it's preparing iOS 8.0.2 -- which will include a fix for problems triggered by iOS 8.0.1 -- and plans to release it in the next few days ...

Researcher Foils iPhone 6 Touch ID

Apple's Touch ID fingerprint scanner is a step up from passcodes for protecting iPhones, but it's far from totally secure, as a researcher showed on Monday ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Banking Trojan Targets Petrochemical Outfits

The pernicious program Citadel has been around for awhile, but it's using some new tricks on new targets ...

Old Opening-Weekend Record Bites Dust as iPhone 6 Cracks 10M

Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus went on sale Friday and shattered previous opening-weekend records, selling more than 10 million units during the period. Those sales may just be the start of a virtuous cycle for Apple -- a cycle that could include new product introductions and weighty revenue growth ...

Apple Fills iOS 8 Security Basket to Brim

With data thefts and cybersnooping making headlines daily, security has started to capture the attention of the disciples of the digital lifestyle -- and if the latest version of iOS is any indication, it's catching the attention of Apple, too ...

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