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The Net Neutrality Ruling: All Sound and Fury?

A federal appeals court's Tuesday ruling on Net neutrality has sparked dire predictions: Streaming video will cost more; Internet-based multiplayer games could get expensive; and innovation might be stifled ...

NSA’s Radio Spying Could Backfire

The United States National Security Agency's surveillance efforts include radio transmissions from circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into computers, The New York Times reported Tuesday. This apparently has been going on since 2008 ...

Ready, Set, Cyberattack!

Advanced persistent threats and stealth malware attacks have been making the rounds for years. Now, University of Michigan researchers Robert Axelrod and Rumen Iliev have created a mathematical model that, in essence, lays out the best time for nation-states to launch cyberattacks. Axelrod is a professor of political science and public policy at the university's Ford School of Public Policy, and Iliev is a post-doctoral student at the school...

NoSQL, Part 2: Grappling With Big Data

NoSQL, Part 1: Coming of Age ...

Microsoft’s Next Windows May Be Dressed to the 9

Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows at its Build developer conference, to be held in San Francisco April 2-4, according to Paul Thurrot's Supersite for Windows ...

Foreign Firms Flee US Cloud Services

Further proof that the NSA surveillance scandal is impacting the United States IT industry came on Friday with the publication of a study conducted for Canadian Web hosting and cloud services provider Peer1 Hosting ...

The CES 2014 Hotties List

The Internet of Things, wearables, mobile devices and the next generation of automobiles were the standouts at CES 2014 ...

Salesforce1 Paves Way for Internet of Customers

Salesforce on Wednesday kicked off its Salesforce1 world tour in New York, touting the allure of the social, mobile and cloud customer platform to clients ...

All Eyes May Be on Security in Samsung’s S5

Rumors that Samsung will include iris-recognition technology in its forthcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone, widely expected to be launched in April, were given a boost on Thursday through a Bloomberg interview of Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung Mobile ...

T-Mobile’s Legere Comes Out Swinging at CES

John Legere, T-Mobile's feisty CEO, on Wednesday gave a speech at CES best described as highly entertaining. His remarks came one day after being kicked out of AT&T's party at the international technology event ...

RSA Could Pay Dearly for $10M NSA Gig

At least eight security experts who had signed up for the RSA 2014 security conference to be held Feb. 24-28 in San Francisco have publicly pulled out ...

Nvidia’s K1 Super Chip Lands in Farmer’s Field

Nvidia this week announced the Tegra K1, a 192-core super chip that brings its Kepler architecture to the mobile space ...

CES 2014 Trends: The Weird and the Wonderful

Devices ranging from the sublime to the strange are debuting this week at International CES 2014 ...

Microsoft Buys Cloud Customer-Service Firm

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will acquire Parature, which provides customer engagement solutions as a service ...

NoSQL, Part 1: Coming of Age

Amadeus, the world's largest travel reservation and ticketing system, handling bookings for 95 percent of flights worldwide, uses a variety of NoSQL databases to deal with the massive amounts of data that it handles ...

Google-Led Coalition Aims to Drive Android Into Cars

In partnership with Nvidia and several automakers, Google on Monday announced the creation of the Open Automotive Alliance, an effort designed to further its push into the automobile industry ...

Eye-Controlled Gaming May Be Closer Than It Appears

One of the biggest bugbears for gamers has long been the need to use a joystick to both track a target and control the motion of their avatar or weapons, but at International CES 2014 next week, Tobii Technology will demonstrate a new solution ...

Surveillance Rights and Wrongs, Part 2: No Clear Answers

Surveillance Rights and Wrongs, Part 1: Begging the Questions ...

Surveillance Rights and Wrongs, Part 1: Begging the Questions

The NSA's surveillance of Americans' emails, Web searches and phone calls has angered the nation, but lawmakers remain divided on the issue. Bipartisan groups have spoken out against the surveillance and a few have introduced legislation to curb it, but some contend it is essential to protect America from its enemies ...

Security Firm Spills the Beans on Snapchat Vulnerabilities

After its discovery of a security hole in Snapchat was ignored for months, Gibson Security earlier this week released the API for the Snapchat application along with two exploits ...

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