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Google+ App Updates Focus on Photos, Tweak Text

Google has made another bid in its attempt at social media relevancy with the launch of iOS and Android updates for Google+ ...

Yahoo Pays Big for Teen Coding Whiz and His App

Yahoo has paid a reported US$30 million for Summly, a newsreader app founded by 17-year-old programming prodigy Nick D'Aloisio. The move makes D'Aloisio, based in London, both an instant multimillionaire and Yahoo's youngest employee. ...

Sharks Circle Struggling Dell

Dell confirmed Monday that two new possible buyers have submitted bids for the company: Boulder Acquisition Corp. and its Blackstone Group affiliate, with Morgan Stanley as its lead debt financing source; and perennial corporate raider Carl Icahn ...

Nothing but Windows Blue Skies From Now On?

Rumors about Windows Blue, the next iteration of Microsoft's flagship operating system, have been juiced up with the release of leaked screen shots and videos over the weekend ...

Pentagon Shoots Down Dump-BlackBerry Rumor

BlackBerry and the Pentagon have denied a report that the U.S. Department of Defense has dropped BlackBerry 10 devices from its purchase list. However, the BlackBerry used to be the exclusive mobile device at the Pentagon, and defense officials are sticking with plans to include other commercial devices ...

Microsoft Pulls Back the Curtain on Law Enforcement Requests for Data

Microsoft on Thursday released its first transparency report, detailing what information was sought from the company last year by governments and law enforcement agencies around the world -- and what information Microsoft gave up to those authorities ...

Schmidt: One Google OS to Rule Them All Not Happening Soon

Google will keep its Chrome and Android operating systems separate, but company executive chairman Eric Schmidt reportedly said this week the two will have more features in common ...

Cyberattack Hammers Korean Banks, Broadcast Nets

Three banks and three broadcast networks in South Korea were hit Wednesday by a virus that froze their computers and shut down a related website ...

FCC Buckles on Cybersecurity

Internet service providers are resisting the Federal Communications Commission's recommendations for implementing security best practices, the agency has reported ...

Florida Hack 1st Election Cyberattack to Hit US, Say Pros

Florida has again made election-related headlines -- this time for an attempted hacking of online election systems during voting last August in Miami-Dade County. It is the first certified case of an online election attack in the U.S., according to NBC News ...

Judge Throws the Book at AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’

Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's publicly accessible website and sending the information to the media. The ruling immediately sparked an outcry from a digital rights group that claims the punishment does not fit the crime...

Lenovo Thinks Up Thinner ThinkPad With Fatter Price Tag

Lenovo on Monday announced a new $950 business ThinkPad, the T431. The company launched the Ultrabook into a market that had a dismal showing in 2012; IHS iSuppli had to slash its Ultrabook estimates for 2013 from 61 million units to 44 million ...

Feds’ Case Against Journo Spurs Crime-and-Punishment Uproar

The case of a journalist charged Thursday with aiding the hacker group Anonymous is sending up red flags in two camps: employers who must worry about security threats from disgruntled ex-workers; and a digital rights group that is finding troublesome parallels with the prosecution of the late Aaron Swartz ...

Eureka! We’ve Found the God Particle – We Think

Nothing is official yet, but it looks like the new particle detected in July in experiments conducted at the CERN Large Hadron Collider may indeed be the Higgs boson or so-called "God particle," scientists announced Thursday at a physics conference in Geneva ...

Twitter May Rock the Music Scene

Those who eagerly await the latest tweets from Lady Gaga, Kanye West and Justin Bieber may soon have one more reason to tie their musical interests to Twitter: The social network will reportedly use a recent acquisition to set up a Twitter Music app ...

Mystery Motorola-Google Phone Dials Up Web Speculation

A video and photos of what could be the first Motorola-Google smartphone have appeared on the Web, showing a standard Android phone with a Motorola logo at the top left of the device's screen and the words "Motorola Confidential Property" along the screen's bottom edge ...

Cyberthreats No. 1 on US Threat Matrix

A busy week on the U.S. cybersecurity front is pointing toward a renewed emphasis on the nation's digital defenses, a shift underscored by Tuesday's Senate testimony from a top security official that ranked hackers and cyberattacks as greater threats to the country than Al Qaeda and terrorism ...

Automatic Link Kicks Your Car’s Brain Into High Gear

A new smartphone app and plug-in device unveiled Tuesday promises to give cars some of the same tech-based features available only from certain factory models or through services like OnStar ...

Report: Apple to Relinquish Tablet Crown to Android

Android tablets -- especially those with smaller screens -- will continue to gain market share this year at the expense of the iPad, which is expected to give up its spot as the No. 1 tablet platform, according to a report released Tuesday by research firm IDC ...

When These Chips Are Down, They Fix Themselves

The mean cyborg of Terminator 2 was unstoppable until it was immersed in a vat of molten iron. It might have survived, however, if it had self-healing processors at its core like the ones announced Monday by a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology ...

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