Security researchers say a patch released by Yahoo earlier this week for a serious email vulnerability did not fix the problem, leaving users at risk. The cross-site scripting flaw was found by Shahin Ramezany, who goes by the nickname ...
Tags: Marissa Mayer, patches, Yahoo, email, security
Samsung has announced its next Exynos processor for smartphones and tablets, an 8-core chip that uses a novel architecture to provide more performance without sucking up battery life. The Exynos 5 Octa is essentially two quad-core chips ...
Tags: 3D video gaming, CES Las Vegas, Exynos 5 Octa, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung
Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions — thought by some to be the work of ...
Tags: bank attacks, botnets for hire, cyber attacks, Homeland Security, Iran
CES attendees took to the FCC's plan for more Wi-Fi spectrum,which was announced at the show on Wednesday,like hungry gamblers to a buffet. "At this current conference,I would love more Wi-Fi,"said Ellen Arnold,a product strategy program ...
Tags: CES, FCC, Wi-Fi, CTA Digital
Mobile application developers should minimize privacy surprises for their customers by limiting their data collection and retention and giving users access to the data collected,California Attorney General Kamala Harris has recommended. ...
Tags: Mobile apps, Mobile application developers, privacy policies, Harris
TORONTO, ON, January 09, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Lynx Systems Inc., a consulting and IT solutions organization for real estate, is pleased to showcase Microsoft SharePoint Solutions designed specifically to handle the concerns of the ...
Tags: SharePoint Solutions, Lynx Systems, Microsoft, Yardi Software
A US firm has unveiled a WiFi-enabled magnum that talks to smartphone apps and uploads shooting data to Facebook and Twitter. TrackingPoint, an applied technology company based in Austin, Texas, launched what is likely to be a ...
Tags: WiFi rifle, CES, smartphone apps, Facebook
Apple CEO Tim Cook met today with Xi Guohua,head of China Mobile,the world's largest wireless carrier,triggering speculation that the two firms will strike a deal this year. "We believe media reports of Tim's Cook meeting this week with ...
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The new Artsee Studio from WowWee allows children to transform their drawings into games. It made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The product is aimed at children aged three and up, and promises to ...
Tags: Artsee Studio, drawings games, Consumer Electronics Show, company news
Computerworld - Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and several server and development products, but as it hinted last week, did not come up with a fix for the Internet Explorer (IE) bug that cyber criminals have ...
Tags: Microsoft, security updates, Windows, cyber criminals
Watch movies in the shower, capture HDR video, or just use it to make phone calls. Sony says it has something for everyone in its new Xperia Z smartphone, the company's flagship handset for 2013. The phone, which was unveiled on Monday at ...
Tags: Sony, Xperia Z Smartphone, phone market, smart phone, flagship handset
Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- Vint Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, says technology has not only changed the way we communicate but it's changing the way we live our lives. Vint Cerf, widely known as the father of the ...
Tags: Internet, Vint Cerf, technology, seniors
Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire webmail sessions. "We're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting ...
Tags: Yahoo, HTTP Secure, webmail session, digital rights
Yahoo has started providing webmail users the option of using a secure connection, matching a similar feature Google and Microsoft have offered for several years. Yahoo’s delay in providing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection ...
Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Webmail Security
IDG News Service - Zoho continues to flesh out the feature set of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) application, adding a new document library, advanced email filtering and location-aware mobile applications. The ...
Tags: Zoho, document library, mobile application, email filtering, software