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The National Security Agency considered its relationship with AT&T unique and particularly productive, The New York Times and ProPublica reported Saturday. The information about the company's close ties with the agency came from the trove of documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden AT&T, which NSA lauded for its "extreme willingness ...

The National Security Agency considered its relationship with AT&T unique and particularly productive, The New York Times and ProPublica reported Saturday. The information about the company's close ties with the agency came from the trove of documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden AT&T, which NSA lauded for its "extreme willingness ...

Samsung on Thursday unveiled two new devices, the Galaxy S6 edge+ and the Galaxy Note5 The smartphones reportedly will be available in the United States starting Aug. 21....

Complaints about Windows 10 keep rolling in, but so far none appears to have stuck. The latest brouhaha is over certain privacy settings. Windows 10 gives users many options to disable certain data-gathering and reporting features, but it appears that some communications to Microsoft servers still slip through.

Xiaomi on Thursday announced its new Redmi Note 2, getting a jump on Samsung's announcement of two new smartphone entries Xiaomi's Redmi Note 2 comes with a 2-GHz octacore Mediatek Helio X10 CPU and 16 GB of flash memory. The Redmi Note 2 Prime edition comes with a 2.2-GHz octacore MTK Helio X10 CPU and 32 GB of flash memory.

Twitter on Tuesday announced a search API that will give business users instant and complete access to every historical public tweet about a subject of interest Based on the Historical PowerTrack and 30-Day Search API tools developed by Gnip, which Twitter purchased last year, the API lets users search tweets back to March 2006, when the first one ...

Qualcomm on Wednesday unveiled its Adreno 5xx GPU architecture next-generation visual processing technology and its 14-bit Spectra image signal processing unit at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles The first two GPUs to use the new architecture, the Adreno 530 and 510, will be integrated in Qualcomm's forthcoming Snapdragon 820 and 620/618 processors....

It's a business truism that customer service can make or break customer relationships, so it stands to reason that contact centers should be considered a critical part of the enterprise and equipped accordingly However, half of 225 global contact centers surveyed in April were using agent desktop technology that was more than five years old, Forres...

Google on Monday announced a restructuring that will make it a wholly owned subsidiary of a new umbrella company called "Alphabet." Product Chief Sundar Pichai will take over as CEO of Google, while Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergei Brin will be CEO and president, respectively, of Alphabet....

Facebook has stolen videos for display on its site, alleged Hank Green of VlogBrothers A whopping 725 of the 1,000 most popular videos on Facebook in Q1 were freebooted -- that is, re-uploaded to the social media network without authorization -- he said, citing a report from Ogilvy and Tubular Labs....

Mozilla on Friday released security updates to fix a zero-day flaw in the Firefox browser An exploit that searches for sensitive files and uploads them to a server -- possibly somewhere in Ukraine -- has surfaced in an ad on a Russian news site, Mozilla reported last week....

"Tablet view is showing saved porn images," wrote Reddit user "FalloutBos." "Woke up to wife asking why I set it to rotate all my porn images right on the desktop view. I have no idea [how] to shut that feature off and that computer is staying shut down until I do."

Salesforce earlier this week announced that it has extended its Social.com, Active Audiences and Social Studio marketing tools to Instagram These tools let marketers buy and manage advertising, publish content, participate in and review discussions with customers, resolve customer service issues, and analyze conversations....

Sprint continued to make progress in its turnaround during Q1, it said Tuesday. However, it apparently wasn't enough to keep the company from slipping to fourth place among major wireless carriers, exchanging places with T-Mobile, which climbed up to third Among other things, Sprint cut postpaid customer losses in the quarter to 12,000 -- the lowe...

Mac users, beware -- the ads you see on the Web could let hackers hijack your device Malwarebytes has discovered a new zero-day exploit in OS X that lets apps bypass passwords during installation to get root permission through a Unix shell....

Yahoo's ad network suffered an attack that lasted for almost a week, Malwarebytes reported mid-day Monday.Malwarebytes earlier notified Yahoo of the attacks, which began July 28 Yahoo had stopped them by the time the report was published, Malwarebytes said....

Security researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger have hacked a TrackingPoint smart rifle that was designed to deliver sharpshooter results, even for novices They demonstrated their feat for Wired and will present their findings at the week-long Black Hat 2015 security conference in Las Vegas, which begins Saturday....

Facebook on Monday announced it was scaling up Internet.org, creating a partner portal that makes it easier for mobile operators to offer its free basic services in new countries Those basic services are bringing new users onto mobile networks more than 50 percent faster, and more than half of them pay for data and Internet access within 30 days of...

Leading artificial intelligence and robotics experts on Tuesday issued an open letter arguing against the development of autonomous weapons Its publication coincides with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence -- IJCAI 2015 -- being held July 25 through 31 in Buenos Aires....

Zimperium on Monday revealed a stunning discovery by researcher Joshua Drake -- a flaw in Android's Stagefright media playback engine that could expose millions of mobile device users to attack without their having done anything Stagefright, which processes several popular media formats, is implemented in native code -- C++ -- which is more prone t...