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Twitter is revamping its Web page so that users will actually stay on the site. With its reliance on 140-character messages that typically link to other content, Twitter's model was tailor made to send users elsewhere. The design changes and new partnerships with content providers are meant to keep ...

HTC rolled out two new Android phones for the European and Asian markets on Wednesday, as well as an update to its Sense user interface and a new online service featuring remote phone locate and wipe services. The Desire HD is similar to the Evo model the company released in North America this year....

Nokia added three new siblings to its upcoming family of smartphone offerings at Nokia World on Tuesday, adding a business-oriented handset and two consumer-oriented devices to its previously announced flagship N8 phone. The E7, C7 and C6 are expected to roll out before the end of the year, but it's...

Intel announced its latest processor, code-named "Sandy Bridge," at the Intel Developer Forum, being held in San Francisco through Wednesday. This has several new features, with a focus on providing a "rich visual experience," Intel said. The processor is scheduled to be in production this year, and...

Robots can be made made strong, robots can be made tireless, but a big problem with robots so far is that they can't be made to have a sense of touch as humans do. The same issue challenges designers of prosthetic limbs. Imitating the motor movements of joints and muscles is one thing, but imitating...

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Encryption vs. Tokenization: Under the Hood

The encryption vs. tokenization battle sometimes seems as fierce as the war between Pepsi and Coke, or the Cubs versus the White Sox. A lot has been written recently about securing data in the cloud, and the merits of the two methodologies are constantly being debated. The good news is that an arg...

Next week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to approve use of the so-called "white spaces" -- the airwaves between broadcast television channels -- for wireless broadband. However, the approaches for implementing this plan are still under debate. Television transmission i...

YouTube began a limited two-day test of live streamed video on Monday, partially fulfilling years of rumors that the Google-owned service would enter the live market currently dominated by players such as Livestream, UStream and Justin.tv. The experiement began on Monday with shows from Rocketboom, ...

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10 MS Exchange Practices Most Companies Should Shun

Deploying, managing and maintaining the high availability of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 email platform in enterprise environments is no small feat. Given the increased complexity of this new Microsoft platform, there are numerous key decisions to be made as the precursor to keeping Exchange running...

At one time, HP was such a nice, quiet company. It was a relatively steady firm known for loyal employees, solid ethics, and products you could trust but not necessarily get excited about (unless you loved calculators and were part of the pocket protector set). While I think excitement is grand, I'm...

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Smoking Out Attackers Hiding in Encrypted Data

Most enterprises have a number of network security appliances that provide protection against attacks aimed at enterprise computing resources, as well as prevent the loss of sensitive enterprise data due to leakage. They work by matching network traffic with threat signatures or tracking application...

A worm dubbed "Here you have" -- the subject line of the email it hides in -- is spreading wildly across the Internet. The attack comes in the form of a link purporting to take the reader to a PDF file, but instead leads to an executable that tries to send copies of the worm to people listed in the ...

Out in the Florida swamps, where men may be swamp things and believe in a jealous divinity, a crackpot pastor decided to commemorate Sept. 11 by the time-honored practice of book burning. In this instance, the book was the Quran. That act of lunacy roiled the nation, arousing criticism from the Whit...

Adobe has acknowledged that its widely used programs for creating and reading PDF files currently are under attack by hackers, but it has offered little information about how it plans to thwart the assault. In an advisory posted on its website Wednesday, Adobe said essentially all versions of its Ac...


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