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Report says Facebook is moving to use Twitter-like hashtags
IDC analyst focusing on autonomous vehicles says big data is one of the biggest barriers to adoption
Researchers showed how to attack 3G and 4G USB modems at Black Hat Europe
Genesco claims it was unfairly fined by Visa over a 2010 data breach
Intelligence agencies eye use of financial crime data to fight terrorism
OMG OEMs, copying Samsung, eyeball tech, silicon madness
Black Hat Europe: Trend Micro's SCADA experiment finds 17 targeted attacks, mainly from China, US, Laos
Google and Waze navigation systems can be
OS X 10.8.3 adds Boot Camp support for Windows 8
One analyst suggests Samsung may hope to put Galaxy line on Tizen OS (see video below)
The South Korean electronics giant said it will launch a Tizen smartphone in the second half of this year
Smart Scroll and Smart Pause track eye and facial movement to make video watching and scrolling better
The electronics giant will now have three 'CEOs,' emphasizing the independence of its massive divisions
Analysts question whether some of Samsung S 4's new features like eye-tracking will be used
Gee Rittenhouse was appointed Bell Labs' new president last month
Certificate Authority Security Council says crypto flaw as described in article not really practical as TLS/SSL certificate attack
Federal charges include conspiring with members of the hacker group to disrupt Tribune's Web server
The new smartphone has a bigger, sharper screen compared to the Galaxy S III
Companies should not assume that security products are implicitly secure, the researcher said
BigQuery users can now combine query results from multiple tables
Some question whether new action is needed to curtail patent infringement lawsuits
One day after Android chief steps down, Jeff Huber is out as head of mapping and commerce
VMware is launching a public cloud, creating a hybrid cloud offering for customers. Is this the Amazon cloud killer?
Proposes working group within the Object Management Group
CalTech researchers says chips can recover from major trouble in microseconds
CERN physicists say new data leads them closer to saying particle is Higgs boson
Samsung picks up on Apple's series concept with the Galaxy line
Google's decision to ax RSS reader sparks petitions, more
Software features, not hardware, appears to be Samsung's big focus for new smartphone
iOS devices are targeted the most, they said
Chat with chief networking architect Martin Casado, founder of OpenFlow and Nicira
Series of events forced a manual recovery, slowing the recovery, Microsoft says
Experts like the on-the-fly updating of apps, but the alerts ... not so much
Google Play, Apple and others told to implement privacy by design
Launch of Secure Work Space expected by June 30
Watch Samsung unveil its new Galaxy S4 smartphone
The exit of Google Reader will bring competition to the market, analysts said.
New techniques bypass existing mitigations and make the attack easier to pull off
Google contends the software violates its terms and conditions by interfering with other applications
More than 100 IBM researchers will help clients identify better ways of interacting with customers and employees
A total of eight products and services are to be axed in the current round of spring cleaning
New research finds the surveillance spyware is spreading but may be used to spy on activists
The company's SDN strategy and programmable chips give it an edge over rivals, executives said
The Google executive needs to rein in the OS if Google is to see further success, say analysts
Analyst: Big data is about decision-making, not just technology for technology's sake
The practice could make it harder for photographers to claim ownership of their work
Security experts think Oracle should have acted sooner to strengthen Java against attacks
