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Intel Puts Its Chips on Internet of Things

Intel on Tuesday announced a new, lower-power family of processors, the Quark, at the Intel Developers Forum being held in San Francisco through Thursday ...

Adoptive Parents Use the Web to Throw Children to Wolves

An underground system of online chat rooms exists for people to get rid of kids they have adopted, a joint investigation by NBC News and Reuters has found ...

Nismo Gizmo May Give Drivers Another Reason to Fiddle

Nissan on Monday unveiled a concept smartwatch that will connect drivers to their cars and provide them with real-time biometric data while tracking their progress across social media ...

NSA Breaks Data Encryption, Tech Firms Break Trust

News that the U.S. National Security Agency has worked steadily for at least the past decade to systematically undermine security has sparked an uproar on the Internet ...

Investors Toss $50 Million Zuora’s Way

Zuora, which offers a billing, commerce and finance platform as a service for businesses using a subscription-service model, has raised US$50 million in E series funding from some major players ...

Webcam Maker Takes FTC’s Heat for Internet-of-Things Security Failure

The United States Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a settlement with Trendnet over its lax security practices. The action stemmed from privacy invasions that occurred in January 2012, when hackers posted live feeds to the Web from nearly 700 cameras made by the company ...

Samsung Enlists Lookout for Android Enterprise Security

Samsung will bundle a forthcoming business suite from Lookout into its flailing Knox enterprise security solution for the Android platform ...

Samsung Draws a Big ‘Meh’ for Clunky, Pricey Galaxy Gear Smartwatch

Samsung on Wednesday showed off its much-anticipated Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the IFA consumer show in Berlin ...

Android Team’s Munchies Lead to Genius KitKat Tie-In

The Internet is abuzz with news that Google has teamed up with food giant Nestle to name the next version of Android after the latter's famous chocolate bar -- KitKat -- rather than continue its tradition of nonbranded nomenclature with the name "Key Lime Pie." ...

Microsoft Takes Nokia Under Its Wing

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will pay more than US$7 billion to buy all of Nokia's devices and services business and to license Nokia's patents as the latest step in its long-drawn-out quest to make some headway in the mobile market ...

Wait, What? AT&T Follows in T-Mobile’s Footsteps

Despite being hit by a lawsuit from T-Mobile over its use of the color magenta in its marketing materials, AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless has announced plans for a nationwide online rollout starting mid-September ...

Wait, What? AT&T Follows in T-Mobile’s Footsteps

Despite being hit by a lawsuit from T-Mobile over its use of the color magenta in its marketing materials, AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless has announced plans for a nationwide online rollout starting mid-September ...

Earth-to-Moon Laser Tests Could Ignite New Era in Space Comms

NASA is poised to launch a mission next week that will use lasers in a test of two-way communications between the Earth and the moon ...

Google’s Barra Gets the Heck Out of Dodge

Google executive Hugo Barra, one of the leading public faces for Android, has left for up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi ...

HTC May Hatch New Mobile OS for China

Flailing Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is developing its own mobile operating system for the China market in the hope of reviving its fortunes, according to The Wall Street Journal ...

Syrian Electronic Army Nails NYT

The Syrian Electronic Army -- widely suspected of being comprised of pro-Syrian government hacktivists -- on Tuesday hijacked The New York Times' website and briefly took over Twitter's domain name system servers ...

Apple Wins Some, Loses Some in E-Book Price-Fixing Case

Apple must hire an external monitor to ensure it does not engage in fixing the prices of e-books, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote said Tuesday, according to Reuters. Cote had found Apple guilty of price-fixing in a trial that concluded last month. ...

VMworld 2013: No Stars but Plenty of Sparkle

At VMworld 2013, being held in San Francisco through Thursday, VMware has been announcing a slew of incremental improvements and enhancements to its platform instead of putting forth striking new technologies or features -- perhaps an indication that the virtualization market is maturing ...

Chinese Domain Buckles Under One-Two DDoS Punch

Chinese websites with the ".cn" domain name extension fell on Sunday to a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the state-run China Internet Network Information Center reported ...

AWS: The Cloud Is Falling

Amazon Web Services were impacted in some areas on Sunday, six days after Web stores on the service in the United States and Canada went down for about 30 minutes, causing losses estimated at up to US$45 million ...

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