SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world. ...
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Digital First Media CEO John Paton said on Monday that the company would expand its pay meters to all 75 of its daily newspapers beginning Monday. The expansion, which builds upon meters already in place at 23 of its MediaNews Group ...
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Salesforce is taking security on its platform more seriously than ever, with a number of upgrades to its existing two-factor authentication on the horizon, a senior security director told Salesforce 2013 Dreamforce delegates today. ...
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Yahoo will encrypt all users personal data by March next year, the web firm's CEO Marissa Mayer has said. Yahoo, along with other web firms including Apple, Microsoft and Google, have been subject to thousands of data requests under the ...
Most mobile phone users have never heard of Tizen. Neither have car owners or anyone with a fridge. Samsung Electronics Co. wants to change that. The South Korean electronics giant is in a quiet push to make its Tizen operating system a ...
Apple is probably one of the few companies that can pull off a price increase. The new iPad Mini starts at $399, or $70 more than last year's model. For that price, you get a leap forward in power, speed and display. There are plenty of ...
As the mobility innovation pool continues to run suspiciously dry, today brings another couple of wacky tidbits from two major technology firms. The first is a reported "curved glass" screen from Apple which, according to a Bloomberg ...
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The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has announced the release of the third in a series of four consumer education videos planned for 2013. Tire Safety Starts with Winter Tires is a five-minute video that explains the differences between ...
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Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Unlike other bug bounty programmes, the ...
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Mobile connected devices may make life easier for consumers in the long run, but today they present a bundle of user headaches, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday. Smart homes, Internet-connected cars and wearable devices represent ...
Storage provider WD today unveiled its latest personal cloud device; My Cloud. My Cloud allows users to access any information from anywhere, and contains folder level access for individuals, meaning an administrator can control which ...
To encourage developers to create more mobile applications to run from its cloud services, Google is offering two new or updated frameworks to run the back-end infrastructure of mobile apps. This could free developers to concentrate on ...
Samsung has announced a tablet designed specifically for children, the Galaxy Tab 3 Kids. The device features a second user mode designed specifically for young children. The Kids Mode user setting provides access to a seperate service ...
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The website of a U.S. organisation specialising in national and international security policy was compromised with malware that targeted a previously unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer. A nation-state looking to compromise the ...
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Devices running Google’s Android operating system accounted for 81% of all smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2013, according to a study released today by IDC. Of the more than 261 million units shipped, just under ...
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