Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Monday briefly took attendees at a company-hosted research conference back decades to the failure of Microsoft Bob and the loathed 'Clippy' to talk about opportunities in pre-emptively helping technology ...
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A privacy debate has erupted in Japan over a new service from a major rail operator that sells private e-ticket records as marketing data. This week East Japan Railway (JR East), the country's largest rail company, has begun offering for ...
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Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley? The smartphone and consumer electronics maker is close to launching an incubator space for startups that are developing software and services for ...
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Yahoo moved to strengthen the mobile portion of its revamped Flickr photo sharing service, acquiring the developer behind a popular photo editing app. The company said Wednesday it had purchased GhostBird Software, the company behind the ...
Microsoft is upping the security on Azure with Active Authentication, a new service now in preview which allows enterprises to secure access to hosted applications such as Office 365 with two-factor authentication. Active Authentication ...
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A Japanese entrepreneur who founded one of the country's largest web portals and was a national celebrity before being jailed for securities fraud is now free and has launched a firm to develop smartphone apps. Takafumi Horie was once a ...
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As riots erupted in Turkey and protesters and government officials took to social media to fire back and forth online, the country's prime minister called Twitter a "curse." Istanbul is seeing its fourth day of violent public ...
Twitter's SMS-based, two-factor authentication feature could be abused to lock users who don't have it enabled out of their accounts if attackers gain access to their log-in credentials, according to researchers from Finnish anti-virus ...
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Twitter will offer users two-factor authentication when they sign in as "a second check to make sure it's really you". Twitter is stepping up its security measures following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media ...
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Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. Ryan Cleary , 21, Jake Davis, 20, ...
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Microsoft's head of corporate communications defended his company's Windows information disclosure strategy Tuesday, denying that Microsoft has adopted Apple's "cone of silence" approach to imparting news. "We know we're not Apple," Frank ...
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A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox. Dwolla, based in Des Moines, Iowa, offers inexpensive wire transfers. Mt. Gox, ...
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New social media privacy laws that have been enacted in several states around the country, or those in the works, present something of a mixed bag for businesses. While the laws generally limit companies from asking job seekers and ...
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The three-year blockade against donations to WikiLeaks may have just been chiseled away, in Iceland, by a ruling handed down by the European country's Supreme Court. The verdict, handed down Wednesday, says that the Visa subcontractor ...
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The Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked today and a bogus tweet was sent claiming President Obama had been hurt in an explosion. The AP's media relations' department tweeted around 1:40 p.m. ET today, "Advisory: @AP Twitter ...
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