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‘Stop Watching Us’ Coalition Aims to Stop NSA’s PRISM Surveillance Program

Google Glass could get a look at the enterprise

Glass eyewear could be helpful for sales, maintenance, health care and law enforcement

NYC wants its old mechanical-lever voting machines back

State-of-art optical scanners that $95M are too impractical for upcoming mayoral elections, officials say

Best Buy gets the best of Microsoft in Windows Store deal

'Big win' for the retailer, argues analyst, because no matter what happens, Best Buy stores gets free remodel

Does encryption really shield you from government’s prying eyes?

Encrypting data may not guard against surveillance, some experts say, while others argue in favor of taking steps to protect privacy

Obama directs agencies to move toward sharing spectrum

A presidential memo directs agencies to take new steps to share spectrum with commercial services

Intel wants to be your new cable provider

But the chipmaker could face fierce adversaries in cable and ISP providers who control bandwidth and content

Some foreign-backed US phone companies reportedly excluded from NSA surveillance program

Their call metadata could still be collected further upstream, from the telecommunication infrastructure operated by other US companies

Federal regulators address rising security risk to medical devices

Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store

Office Mobile is only available for iPhone, iPad users can use Office Web Apps for now, Microsoft said