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Up to 35 million gamers with accounts on Steam, the multiplayer and digital games distribution platform developed by Valve, may be at risk following a breach of its database. Information in the database included usernames, passwords, data on members' game purchases, and members' email and billing ad...
Nearly two years after consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's privacy policies, the social network and the FTC are close to an agreement, according to a recent report. The deal between the company and the commission will reportedly require F...
Data integration is critical for companies that need to combine systems and databases after a merger or acquisition, or need to link legacy systems to new business applications. This need is vast throughout commercial and public industries, and the task can be daunting, especially for CIOs and IT ma...
Research In Motion's upcoming next set of smartphones, which will run its next-generation BBX operating system, will represent a departure from the company's lonstanding design aesthetics, typified by the BlackBerry Bold, according to a recent report. However, the upcoming phones will still support ...
Unless you're driving a tricked-out late-model BMW or Mini, you're unlikely to have Internet-based media streaming options built into your vehicle. However, there are ways to replicate that Internet media experience -- just without the integrated controls. The basic premise is to use your smartphone...
Nvidia on Wednesday launched the quad-core mobile Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. Formerly nicknamed "Project Kal-El," the Tegra 3 has four main cores and a fifth companion core. It distributes the workload among these using patent-pending variable symmetric multiprocessing technology. The Tegra 3 include...
When Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet shows up on Nov. 15, users will be able to choose from thousands of apps available for download at Amazon's Appstore. That's way fewer than the hundreds of thousands iPad owners can get from Apple's App Store. Still, if they're the right apps, who cares? Popular ...
Adobe announced on Wednesday that it would no longer continue to develop Flash Player for mobile devices after the release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook. It will instead switch to HTML5 for mobile devices. Adobe will continue supporting Flash Player for existing device...
Questions posed by U.S. Supreme Court Justices to attorneys making oral arguments in United States v. Jones suggest the case could have significant implications for search-and-seizure law and police practices. The justices grilled both the U.S. attorney general and the defense attorney for Antoine...
Managing personal finances once involved lots of paper. Then computer programs came along that helped simplify the process. Now a multitude of mobile apps are available to help people attend to money matters on the go. "It's very convenient to have it in your pocket on your phone," said Garth Scrivn...
Honda recently unveiled the latest version of its Asimo robot in Tokyo. The humanoid robot has been equipped with what Honda claims is the world's first autonomous behavior control technology. This lets the Asimo continue moving independently of an operator's control. The latest Asimo also has impro...
Siri, the voice recognition technology on Apple's new iPhone 4S, has attracted buyers by the millions with its ability to handle complex search queries. Siri's personified as a somewhat sassy female personal assistant, but at least one person finds her downright disturbing: Google Chairman Eric Schm...
Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. federal government spends on cybersecurity, it seems that shoestring-budget attackers are still often able to get a foot in the door. At a security colloquium in North Virginia on Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told reporter...
Bookseller Barnes & Noble expanded on its Nook line of handheld devices and unveiled the Nook Tablet on Monday. The company also announced upgrades to its Nook Color, a device that was previously offered as its entry into the tablet market, and its Nook Simple Touch e-reader. The Nook Tablet, wh...
Microsoft on Friday released a temporary fix for a Microsoft Word vulnerability that allows the Duqu worm to attack PCs. The flaw, in TrueType font parsing, could let an attacker run arbitrary code in kernel mode, installing programs; view, change or delete data; or create new accounts with full us...
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