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Fact #1: Facebook's iPhone app is one of that platform's all-time most popular applications. Fact #2: Apple's iPad has been on the market for well over year Why, then, does Facebook still have no native app specifically built for the Apple tablet?...
News of two cybersecurity efforts undertaken by the United States government surfaced Friday One is the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cyber Pilot, in which the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will share classified threat information and the knowledge of how to use that with participa...
Google's soon-to-be-released Nexus 4G smartphone is going to have a dual-core processor, a very large screen, and high-definition video capture capabilities, according to a post on Boy Genius Report It's not yet clear whether Google will offer the device under its own brand or will work closely with a device maker to create a flagship device the wa...
Facebook is working on an HTML 5-based platform code-named "Project Spartan" that will seek to distribute apps to iDevices, TechCrunch has reported The project purportedly has about 80 outside developers, including people from Zynga and Huffington Post, creating a variety of apps for the upcoming platform....
LulzSec, the shadowy group of hackers that has hammered Sony, blown raspberries at the FBI and tweaked the nose of the United States Senate, set up a hotline Tuesday over which people can request hacks Response was overwhelming, according to a tweet from the group. It claimed to have 2,500 voice mails and missed another 5,000 calls within hours....
Samsung's Series 5 Chromebook hit the shelves Wednesday, selling for US$500 for a 3G version and $430 for a WiFi-only model A teardown performed by IHS iSuppli senior analyst Wayne Lam found that the Series 5 Chromebook has hardware attributes commonly found in a full-featured notebook....
Four consumer protection organizations, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), have filed a complaint with the United States Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology The complaint states that the process creates an image identification system under the social networking giant's sole control....
Yet another Android malware package has been publicized just two weeks after the last one, dubbed "DroidDream Light," was disclosed This latest malware, named "Plankton" by Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor in North Carolina State University's computer science department, exploits Dalvik, Android's process virtual machine, Jiang wrote....
The United States is developing and deploying covert communications systems intended to be used by dissidents in countries Washington deems have repressive governments, according to the U.S. State Department The projects are not clandestine, State Department spokesperson Harry Edwards told TechNewsWorld. However, it's up to grant recipients to dete...
Spanish police announced Friday they have arrested the leaders of the Anonymous hacker group in that country They also claim to have found a server that coordinated and implemented computer attacks on government, financial and business websites worldwide, including the Sony's PlayStation Network, at the home of one of the trio....
IBM researchers have demonstrated a graphene circuit which integrates all circuit components onto a single wafer made of silicon carbide Graphene is a mesh of carbon atoms that's one atom thick. Integrating it monolithically -- meaning in one unit -- with other materials is a problem researchers have been grappling with since 2004, when the materia...
Android apps are becoming more popular as the Android operating system gains ground in the mobile market IDC expects Android to take more than 40 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in the second half of 2011....
Facebook has begun rolling out worldwide a tag suggestions feature that uses facial recognition software to automatically suggest tags for the faces appearing in new photos uploaded to its site The announcement has raised concerns that the feature will impinge upon users' privacy....
Consumer watchdog group Freepress is accusing Verizon of breaching the terms of its agreement to lease airwaves for its 4G LTE network Freepress filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission Monday about this issue....
Skype's code has been hacked and its innards published on the Web by Efim Bushmanov, a self-described freelance researcher in the tiny Komi Republic, about 870 miles from Moscow His aim, he said, was to make Skype open source....
Who Watches the Watchmen, Part 3: Flying Headlong Into a Cloud Enterprises and other large organizations have already begun riding the wave of the consumerization of IT, and the voice of the mobile device user is being heard through the land....
Sony's security nightmare just won't end. Earlier this week, malicious hackers released a bundle of personal information on thousands of Sony customers that was stolen -- quite easily, according to the infiltrators -- from Sony's IT systems.
Gmail is not the only e-mail service whose users have been targeted by spear-phishing hackers. Users at Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are also on the email infiltrators' hit lists, according to security firm Trend Micro The attacks on the latter two email systems appear to be separately conducted, said Nart Villeneuve, senior threat researcher at Trend Mi...
Who Watches the Watchmen, Part 2: Uncle Sam, Are You Naked? The current U.S. presidential administration is committed to the cloud, and Washington has targeted about one quarter of its US$80 billion IT budget for potential migration to the cloud....
Google has reportedly pulled several Android mobile applications that were lousy with malware from its official Android Market. This follows a report earlier this week from Lookout Mobile Security, which claimed it found dozens of apps in the market that contained malicious code....
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