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Twitter Opens Entire Multibillion-Tweet Gold Mine to Searchers

Twitter this week began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006 ...

Jolla’s Open Source Tablet Gets Crazy Crowd Love

Jolla, the company set up by former Nokia executives to keep the Meego operating system alive, raised more than US$841,000 on Wednesday, the first day of its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo ...

Google Glass May Be Saved by Obscurity

Whatever happened to Google Glass? In the early days -- was it just a year ago? -- people got punched in bars, bounced from movie theaters, and pulled over in cars for wearing them, and some establishments outright banned "glassholes" from their premises ...

Nokia Hits the Comeback Trail With N1 Tablet

Nokia on Tuesday announced the N1 Android tablet, the first offering under its own brand since Microsoft's acquisition of its mobile phone business ...

US Marshals Have Their Own Cellphone Data Slurpfest

The United States Marshals Service is grabbing data from thousands, if not millions, of Americans' cellphones using high-tech devices deployed on five Cessnas, The Wall Street Journal reported last week ...

Hackers Humiliate U.S. State Department

The United States Department of State on Sunday announced its unclassified email system has been breached, making it the fourth U.S. government organization to have fallen prey to hackers in recent months ...

Facebook Lubes PR Gears to Dampen Privacy Worries

Facebook on Thursday announced Privacy Basics, a set of interactive guides to answer the most commonly questions about how users can control their information on its site ...

Amazon, Hachette End E-Book Squabble

Amazon and publisher Hachette on Thursday made peace after months of slugging it out toe to toe over e-book pricing, which split the authors' community and saw Amazon pulling some Hachette authors' books off its promo list and slowing delivery of others ...

Americans Flip-Flop on Personal Data Privacy

Despite the publicity about Edward Snowden's controversial leaks, only 43 percent of 607 English-speaking adults surveyed in January had heard a lot about government surveillance efforts, and another 44 percent had heard a little, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Internet Project ...

FCC Chair Asserts Independence in Net Neutrality Fracas

United States Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has responded to the White House's proposal for Net neutrality rules by reasserting his agency's independence in a meeting with executives of Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies following President Obama's Monday call to action ...

Microsoft Makes Lumia 535 Its Own

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Lumia 535 -- the first smartphone under its own brand since it completed its acquisition of Nokia in April ...

Researchers Shine Spotlight on OS X/iOS Masque Attack

Researchers at FireEye on Monday made public the existence of the Masque Attack, which threatens iOS and Mac OS X operating systems ...

USPS Employees, Retirees, Customers Exposed in Hack Attack

Hackers siphoned off data from United States Postal Service servers for more than eight months before being detected, the USPS said ...

Obama Bangs Drum for Net Neutrality

President Obama on Monday leaped into the controversy surrounding Net neutrality, calling on the United States Federal Communications Commission to ensure and protect that neutrality ...

The Law Scores a Victory Against Dark Net Denizens

Europol on Friday announced that a team of agents from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Eurojust have taken down more than 400 cybercrime services accessible via the Tor browser ...

Amazon’s Echo Plays Hard to Get

Amazon on Thursday announced Echo, a speaker with a built-in voice-activated personal digital assistant. Think of a cylindrical Bose SoundLink Mini married to Siri, Cortana or Google Voice -- or heck, living in sin with all three ...

Microsoft Rearranges Mobile Office

Microsoft on Thursday announced new Office apps for the iPhone, updated Office apps for the iPad, and a preview of Office apps for Android tablets (sample screen shot shown above) ...

Scorecard Reveals ‘Messaging App Security’ Is an Oxymoron

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday released its Secure Messaging Scorecard, which rates messaging app security based on seven capabilities. Only six of more than three dozen tools the organization audited met all seven security requirements ...

Verizon, AT&T Are Watching You

The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week renewed its protests against Verizon Wireless' and AT&T's use of supercookies that can't be deleted or disabled to track customers' mobile Web-browsing activities without their knowledge ...

Verizon, AT&T Are Watching You

The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week renewed its protests against Verizon Wireless' and AT&T's use of supercookies that can't be deleted or disabled to track customers' mobile Web-browsing activities without their knowledge ...

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