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Botnets embody the ultimate blended threat. Botnet code carries almost every conceivable form of malware -- from spyware to downloaders, rootkits, spam engines and more. To answer like with like, defenders must employ multiple layers of security. The good news is that time-honored techniques are sti...
Facebook users are now being required to review and update their privacy settings in light of changes the company has made to its privacy controls. The latest round of changes include the elimination of Facebook's regional networks, the implementation of granular settings for individual pieces of co...
Wednesday announcements from Twitter and MySpace further indicated that social networking is now part of mainstream computing. At LeWeb, the European Internet event held in Paris, Twitter announced that it is opening up its data stream to all developers. Meanwhile, MySpace, which lags behind Faceb...
Google on Monday announced expansions to its search service that will provide real-time content to update search results. Google also demonstrated Google Goggles, a visual search application that calls up information from Google's databases when people take a photo of objects with their Android phon...
You couldn't find a more appropriate name for the world's first commercial spaceship, which Virgin Galactic officially unveiled to the world and the media Monday night at California's Mojave Air and Space Port. The SpaceShipTwo reusable suborbital plane is now the Virgin Space Ship Enterprise, and i...
Paper and packaging, those essential components of modern life, have a massive impact on the environment and so constitute a prime target for sustainable development and practices and the software that makes it all possible. Paper manufacturing is the third largest user of fossil fuels worldwide, ac...
Fusion Garage plans to pursue product development of the controversial Web PC formerly known as the "CrunchPad," CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan announced via video conference on Monday. The purpose of the conference was to address a controversy over product rights, as well as highlight features of the pr...
Just one month after setting a new processing speed record with its Larrabee project, Intel has shelved plans to put out a new graphics chip based on that technology. Instead, it will use the technology as a software development platform for internal and external use in high-performance computing. H...
Just days after news that it had helped identify and disable the accounts of more than 2,700 registered New York sex offenders, Facebook on Sunday announced that it has created an external advisory board on the topic of online safety. The Facebook Safety Advisory Board comprises five leading Interne...
Up to now, if you wanted a smartphone with power and without complexity, the only orchard you could go to was Apple's. With the arrival of the Motorola Droid, though, that's changed. The Droid uses Google's Android operating system. It's not as slick as the OS in Apple's iPhone, but it's still a bre...
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the battle between Google and Microsoft and how it is largely counterproductive for both companies. Since I spent a lot of my life in competitive analysis, I thought it might be fun to set out a strategy of how Google could take out Microsoft (which it...
Could heavy cellphone users be more likely to suffer brain cancer? Scientists and researchers aren't sure, but they're locked in debate. Results of a study published by Scandinavian researchers in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Thursday indicated there doesn't seem to be any such li...
The United Nations has jumped into the controversy involving leaked emails on climate change data from the University of East Anglia, with a senior UN official saying Friday that his agency would investigate the matter. The news may prompt a new series of blog posts, tweets and emails from climate c...
It already handles your Gmail and eventually wants to have you surf its Wave. It hopes you'll take a shine to Chrome. It assigns you a phone number so you can have a Voice. You use its applications to compose professional, smart-looking Docs when you're not being a messy, profane Blogger. It has des...
It is one of the saddest, most shocking stories for a journalist to cover: the murder of a law enforcement official. Four Lakewood, Wash., police officers were shot to death at a Tacoma-area coffee shop Sunday morning -- apparently targeted just because they were cops -- and a dangerous, armed suspe...
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