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Data Requests Put Amazon Between Rock, Hard Place

Amazon's recently released first report on government requests for information revealed that from January to May, it received 813 subpoenas and 25 search warrants ...

DxO One Bridges iPhone-DSLR Camera Divide

DxO, known for its top-notch digital imaging software, on Thursday announced a new compact camera designed to allow iPhones and iPads to capture higher-quality digital images ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Routers Becoming Juicy Targets for Hackers

Most consumers pay as much attention to routers as they do to doorknobs. That's not the case with Net marauders. They're finding the devices ripe targets for mischief ...

Amazon May Try Out Delivery-Sharing

Amazon is developing a mobile app that will be the cornerstone of an Uber-type service for neighborhood package delivery, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday ...

Apple’s Safari Declares Open Season on Mobile Ads

Apple is sending a shiver down the spine of anyone who depends on mobile advertising for a living with the inclusion of ad-blocking extensions for iOS 9 in the next version of its Safari browser ...

Synaptics Gives Spacebar Some New Touches

Touchpad pioneer Synaptics has touched up an unlikely area on a keyboard: the spacebar ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Patch Tuesday Sunset Will Be a Mixed Bag for Windows Security

Microsoft will phase out Patch Tuesday -- its monthly potpourri of software product fixes -- when it rolls out Windows 10, which could be a mixed bag for the operating system's security ...

US Snooping Costs High-Tech Sector $35B and Counting

Other countries' concerns over U.S. government surveillance programs likely will cost American businesses more than US$35 billion, according to a report released Tuesday by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation ...

OPM Security Was a Data Breach Waiting to Happen

Things could get worse before they get better as the FBI, US-CERT and Office of Personnel Management investigate a data breach that may have compromised the personal information of some 4 million current and past federal employees ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Google’s Android Permissions Get Granular

Google appears to be heeding warnings of security experts who say Android users need better control over what apps do with information from their phones ...

CROWDFUNDING SPOTLIGHT

Doppler Labs Kickstarts ‘Bionic Ear’

Doppler Labs, known for making state-of-the-art ear plugs, on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Here Active Listening system, which takes noise-canceling technology to a new level ...

Feds’ Photobucket Strategy Could Hobble White Hats

There's a new twist in the way feds are seeking to penalize bad actors for making and distributing software used in crimes, suggest recent arrests by Justice Department and FBI officials. ...

Senate Ready to Rumble Over Freedom Act Amendments

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to close debate on the USA Freedom Act, a measure that would prohibit the NSA from the indiscriminate collection Americans' phone call data. The bill already has passed in the House. ...

Google’s I/O Steers Devs to Photos, IoT, Maps and More

Google on Thursday kicked off its I/O developers conference with the introduction of a new app for better managing, organizing and storing photos, as well as an Android spinoff for the Internet of Things, and an offline feature for Maps ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

No Wrongdoing at NCIS, Says Defense Watchdog

The U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General has rejected allegations that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service engaged in questionable domestic intelligence activity ...

Phone Companion App Lets Cortana Get Around

Microsoft advanced its "if you can't beat'em, join'em" mobile strategy with Tuesday's announcement of Phone Companion, an app built into Windows 10 that's designed to synchronize information across multiple platforms, including Android and iOS ...

Is Home Where HomeKit’s Heart Is?

Apple is preparing to launch an app called "Home" to act as an interface for setting up and managing smart devices that plug into its HomeKit framework, 9 to 5 Mac reported last week ...

Apple Fiddles With MacBook Pro, iMac Features and Pricing

Apple on Tuesday announced performance enhancements for the MacBook Pro and a new configuration and price changes for the iMac ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Venom Less Toxic Than Heartbleed

It was a little over a year ago that the Heartbleed bug shocked the Internet with its potential for mischief. Now another flaw in open source code has sent network administrators into damage control mode ...

Researcher’s Airplane-Hacking Claims May Not Fly

A security researcher who made headlines last month for bragging he'd hacked into a passenger jet's internal computer systems while in flight appears to have performed the act more than a dozen times over a three-year period, based on a search warrant application published last week. The FBI filed the application in April ...

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