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Other Shoe Drops in CyberVor Hack Attack

Domain name registrarNamecheap on Monday reported that it was besieged Sunday night by cyberattackers who employed username and password data possibly stolen by the so-called CyberVor hacker gang. ...

Dropbox Pro Pricing Takes a Nosedive

Dropbox last week announced a Pro cloud-storage overhaul that includes new features and lower pricing ...

Samsung, LG Unveil Smartwatches With Sex Appeal

Samsung and LG both announced brand-new smartwatches on Wednesday in the run-up to next week's IFA 2014 consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. ...

California Lays Down the Kill-Switch Law

Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed into law a bill requiring that anti-theft measures be incorporated into all smartphones sold within California. The measure applies to phones manufactured after July 1, 2015 ...

Google Gives Glass a Good Polish

An update to the software that runs Glass gives users of Google's wearable computing device more control over their interactions with contacts ...

China to Go Its Own OS Way

China is developing a homegrown operating system that could be ready as soon as October as part of an effort to wean itself from Western-made software, according to a Sunday report from the Xinhua government news agency ...

Netflix Ponies Up for Better TWC Net Connection

Netflix on Tuesday announced that it has signed an interconnection agreement with Time Warner Cable, marking the fourth such deal the content provider has signed with a major Internet service provider ...

Google May Start Grooming Little Googlers

Google is working on a plan to allow kids under 13 to have their own personal accounts on services such as YouTube and Gmail, according to reports ...

Facebook Adds Training Wheels for the Humor-Impaired

Facebook has begun labeling some of the satirical news articles that appear in users' news feeds with a tag designed to prevent readers from mistaking the content for genuine news ...

Hotel’s Robotic Butler Is Not Quite ‘Rosie’

Aloft Hotels this week announced the launch of a new, robotic "butler" at the company's Cupertino, Calif., location. Dubbed "A.L.O.," the new botlr, or robotic butler, is designed to help the hotel's human staff by delivering amenities to guest rooms ...

Galaxy Alpha: Samsung Puts Pedal to Metal

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its long-awaited Galaxy Alpha smartphone featuring a metal frame and a 4.7-inch HD Super AMOLED display. ...

Siri Creators Have a Much Smarter Bun in the Oven

The inventors of Apple's Siri personal assistant have launched an independent effort that could make their first offspring look kind of dumb ...

Nvidia’s Tegra K1 Stars in New Acer Chromebook

Acer America on Monday rolled out a new Chromebook contender featuring a 13.3-inch display and an Nvidia Tegra K1 mobile processor ...

Stepping Up the Search for ET

Atmospheric pollution may not exactly be among mankind's proudest achievements, but it's certainly an incontrovertible sign that we are here. Could something similar help us find civilizations on other planets? ...

Secure Sites to Get the Google Bump

Google on Wednesday announced that it has begun factoring websites' use of HTTPS into its search rankings, resulting in more favorable results for those that use the security-minded protocol ...

Wikimedia Blasts Europe’s ‘Right to Be Forgotten’

The Wikimedia Foundation on Wednesday released its first-ever transparency report -- and along with it a protest against Europe's "right to be forgotten" law. Wikimedia is the nonprofit owner of Wikipedia and other sites ...

DoT May Rule Out In-Flight Cellphone Talking

The U.S. Department of Transportation is drafting a notice of proposed rulemaking, or NPRM, that could restrict consumers' ability to talk on their cellphones during airplane flights ...

Hotel Bites Internet – Internet Bites Back

Online reviews are a modern-day fact of life for any company operating in the hospitality industry, but an Internet maelstrom erupted on Monday when one hotel's surprising response to that reality was brought to light ...

PlayStation Now Hints at Bright Game-Streaming Future

Sony's PlayStation Now on Thursday entered open beta, making it available for the first time to all PlayStation 4 owners in the U.S. and Canada. The game-streaming service had been in a private beta period since January. ...

BlackBerry Picks Secusmart to Tighten Mobile Security

BlackBerry on Tuesday announced plans to acquire Secusmart, a developer of high-security voice and data encryption and anti-eavesdropping technologies ...

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