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HP is adding NFC and Wi-Fi Direct printing features to new office printers
Gives gift card for its own e-store to customers who buy one of 16 new Windows 8.1 devices
Abruptly sidelines two-year project, says shipping the browser would be 'mistake'
The NTIA plans to let its domain-name contract with ICANN expire in late 2015, its administrator says
Analysts say dual-boot systems with Android and Windows will appeal to a few users such as coders and tests
Both agree that U.S. secondary education system needs much improvement
The scathing report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is just the latest twist in the Cover Oregon controversy
Microsoft workers say, 'We need to take a little risk and do some new stuff,' Gates tells Rolling Stone
The changes come following an accident that killed a young girl
The quality of companies going to market is different than it was during the dot-com era, analysts say
Secusmart is also behind a new voice encryption app that could help multinational, multiplatform enterprises
Such sensitive data should never be uploaded to a provider outside the jurisdiction of the U.K, the groups said
Researchers demonstrate remote code execution exploits against Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari
The Refocus app lets users take a photo and later choose what they want in focus
On Thursday WeChat closed the public accounts of several publications known for their political writings
Rdio will launch in India later this year
The Toshiba-SanDisk joint venture has filed lawsuits against SK Hynix for misappropriating trade secrets
Google plays a critical role in the trends, eMarketer said
The router maker demonstrated a line card with chip maker Xilinx that's intended for 400-Gigabit Ethernet
A 'small amount' of possible activity was logged prior to a warning from the US Department of Justice
Handsets nearby feed location data to the devices as if they were cell towers
At Cebit, a robot has bones and muscles like a human
Facebook's CEO says he called President Obama to express his 'frustration' at repeated revelations of NSA snooping
Most users don't want or need all the features in Fusion's more complex original UI, according to one expert
Adam Wray, formerly of Tier 3, will now lead the open-source Riak database vendor
Plus, Google spills its dogfood, the new HTC One gets leaked yet again, somehow, and is Google planning to build a brick-and-mortar store?
Adopting protocol called DMARC pays big dividends, says Twitter postmaster
Upcoming $70 Office 365 Personal also includes rights for one tablet
Supercomputers funded by National Science Foundation and due for deployment in 2015 will have petabytes of storage
mSpy bundles its smartphone monitoring software in four popular smartphones
15-second ads will play automatically in users' feeds.
The cost for 1TB of cloud-based storage capacity is cut from $49.99 to $9.99
Infringers shouldn't be able to repost files again and again to the same website, musicians tell lawmakers
Strips some pieces from Office and offers them separately to boost revenue, says one analyst; another counters that there's no sign of a strategic shift
It'll cost $69.99 per year and allow buyers to install the suite on two devices -- either a MacOS or Windows computer and a tablet
Upstart Augmentation Industries and Deutsche Telekom both want to take advantage of a myriad of onboard computers
Software-Defined Networking game plan: Education, education, education… including a good understanding of your current network.
A software program shipped with some Samsung mobile devices allows access to the file system through the modem, the developers said
Are high costs forcing carriers to quietly push for new rules that would scale back FCC plan to bring broadband to rural areas?
Fiberlink boss says mobile device management is still underappreciated, underused
Breach rule extends only to companies that own, operate or provide technology for critical infrastructure facilities.
Hack Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Adobe Flash and Reader
Establishing CFAA liability could be uphill task for Sen. Dianne Feinstein
As venture capital market returns to healthy levels, investors flock to cloud startups
The Judge had refused permission to the NSA to keep phone metadata beyond five years