Vendors and Providers

Online backup service SugarSync moves to paid-only model

No longer offers 5GB of free capacity; Online backup site plans to release new features next year

Tech titans urge surveillance reform

Petition urges Obama administration to support updated digital privacy and transparency standards

4 Tech Innovations That Improve Data Center Scalability

The worst IT project disasters of 2013

The Healthcare.gov rollout leads a pack of painful projects

Adobe Connect users can now log in with Facebook and Google

Connect's new version, due in 2014's first quarter, also lets people register for webinars using their Google and Facebook credentials

Deaths at Apple supplier in China concern labor group

The Shanghai factory builds the iPhone 5C handset, according to China Labor Watch

Home appliance makers connect with open source ‘Internet of things’ project

The AllSeen Alliance is working on an open source framework that it says can be used to connect almost anything to the Internet

Google, Microsoft, others join in calling on NSA limits

Congressional action to rein in NSA activity formally requested by leading tech companies

Other browser makers follow Google’s lead, revoke rogue certificates

Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera nullify unauthorized French certificates; Windows XP users out of luck

AT&T’s first international LTE roaming deal is very cool

The carrier's data roaming plans will include LTE service, but only in Canada for now