Facebook's "Bug Bounty" programme has paid out $1m in total to users-turned-security-bug-hunters in the past two years, with the youngest recipient being a 13-year-old boy. The largest single "bounty" has been $20,000, and two recipients ...
Tags: Facebook, Amateur Security Testing
Yahoo is expanding its research division, Yahoo Labs, with a total of 50 PhD hires planned for this year as the firm looks to expand its "science-led innovation" department, which looks into technologies including big data and artificial ...
Tags: Yahoo, Emerging Tech
Google has announced that it will be releasing its new mid-range smartphone, the Moto X, in the US, Canada and Latin America around the end of August or early September. Manufactured in newly-built facilities in Texas, the Moto X will be ...
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Isis will roll out its mobile wallet application nationwide later this year following successful pilots that launched last fall in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Isis, which competes with Google Wallet and other mobile wallet ...
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Microsoft today released a stripped-down version of Office for Android smartphones, continuing its strategy of tying its mobile suite to the Office 365 rent-not-buy subscription plans. Wednesday's launch of Office Mobile for Android ...
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Facebook's mobile advances have pushed the company's stock price up to its $38 IPO price for the first time since the company went public in May 2012. Facebook shares hit a high of $38.31 today shortly after the markets opened, but then ...
Tags: Facebook, IPO Share Price
Computerworld - Starbucks has dropped AT&T as its in-store Wi-Fi provider, teaming up instead with Google and Level 3 Communications to offer 10 times faster network speeds. The coffee shop chain said the changeover will start in August ...
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Several U.S. senators will push for changes in the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, with lawmakers saying they will focus on making the NSA program more transparent to the ...
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After a month delay and a price drop, Nvidia has started shipping the $299 Shield handheld gaming console via its website and online retail stores. Shield looks much like a traditional gaming controller, but it has a 5-inch pop-up screen ...
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Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social ...
Tags: Facebook, Secure Browsing
By simply printing out your own shower curtain rings, iPhone case, jewelry organizer or other common products, an average homeowner could recoup the cost of a 3D printer in under a year. That's the conclusion of a study by Michigan ...
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Apple will launch a high-resolution, Retina-equipped iPad Mini this fall or in early 2014. Or it won't. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today claimed that Apple suppliers will ...
Google's Motorola Mobility unit unveiled the highly anticipated Moto X smartphone on Thursday at an event themed around innovation, but many of the handset's highlighted features were similar to those on the recently announced Droid ...
Tags: Moto X
Motorola Mobility announced the 4.7-in. Moto X smartphone on Thursday after weeks of build-up that touted the device as the first made from scratch under Google ownership. Still, analysts said that build-up didn't exactly crowd out this ...
Tags: Moto X, Android 4.3
The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
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