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Texting while walking can be dangerous, but Apple could be aiming to make it less so, judging from a patent awarded Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

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Bogus web traffic is creating a crisis for advertisers on the Web ...

While Twitter rose to notoriety by being the place where people spilled the minutiae of their lives, there are times when its users don't want everyone in the online world to see what they're thinking. For those occasions, there's direct messaging ...

Alibaba is putting some skin in the mobile-messaging game with a US$215 million investment in Tango; the companies announced the funding on Thursday ...

Microsoft's tip of a news event next week triggered an avalanche of prophecy that the long-awaited version of Office for the iPad was about to be released. Microsoft is billing the event in San Francisco on March 27 as a "briefing and news focused on the intersection of cloud and mobile computing." ...

"Target was certified as meeting the standard for the payment card industry in September 2013. Nonetheless, we suffered a data breach." Those words by Target Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Gregg Steinhafel affirmed what security experts know as gospel: Compliance does not equal security ...

Alibaba, which controls 80 percent of the e-commerce in China, is going public -- but not in its native land ...

Target acknowledged Thursday that it put information on a back burner that led to the compromise of more than 100 million customer records and will cost the company millions of dollars in losses ...

A powerful U.S. senator has accused the CIA of spying on a network drive legislative staffers used to prepare a report on abuses -- including torture -- in the agency's detention and interrogation program ...

Surfing the Internet last year was a dangerous proposition, and it isn't getting any safer.On average, 200 samples of malicious software were collected every minute by McAfee Labs, the company reported Monday in its threat report for the last quarter of 2013 ...

Trawling porn sites used to be the best way to pick up an electronically transmitted disease on your smartphone. That's not the case anymore ...

Workers at a factory in China are on strike after rejecting compensation plans offered as a result of IBM's US$2.3 billion deal to sell its low-end server business to Lenovo ...

Maxwell Smart had his Cone of Silence, but silence was the furthest thing from the minds of theAether team that designed Cone.Cone, expected to start selling this summer for US$399, is a wireless speaker with a twist. It connects to a home WiFi network (802.11 a, b,g, n), but it isn't a slave to another device, such as a music player, tablet or computer. Cone attempts to play what listeners want to hear before they know they want to hear it...

Apple on Monday unwrapped its CarPlay auto initiative at the Geneva International Motor Show. The announcement comes less than a month after Google announced its grand plans to bring Android into automobiles with its Open Automotive Alliance ...

Consumers love their smartphones, but a substantial number of them don't love using them to pay for purchases. With Samsung's introduction of its Galaxy S5 phone last week, the company is betting it can change some of those consumers' minds on that subject ...

A British intelligence agency indiscriminately collected photos from the webcams of Yahoo users and stored them on its servers over a period of several years, The Guardian reported ...

Apple on Tuesday pushed a large update to its OS X Mavericks operating system that includes a patch for a significant security flaw in the software ...

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Samsung hinted it wasn't about to rock the mobile world with the choice of the warmup band for its Unpacked 2014 event Monday -- the Barcelona Opera House Chamber Orchestra ...