Researchers create Android app to show when other apps track you

A team of researchers has developed an Android app to help people better understand when their location is being accessed, something that happens more often than people think. "All apps that access location need to request permission from the Android...

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Obama selects cryptologist to head US NSA

U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated an expert cryptologist to head the National Security Agency at a time when the agency is under pressure to reform its surveillance. The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that Navy Vice Admiral Michael...

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Yahoo buying developer of Donna personal assistant app

Yahoo has entered into an agreement to acquire Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna. The Internet giant did not comment on whether it was acquiring the company for its technology or for its talent, a trend popularly...

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Nintendo sticks to its console guns despite Wii U flop

Nintendo won't be abandoning hardware or licensing its game titles for use on smartphones, its President Satoru Iwata told analysts in Tokyo. Although he bowed in apology for the company's lackluster performance and has reportedly accepted a 50 percent...

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Intel closing down AppUp online app store

Intel is closing down its AppUp online application store as it sees a shift in the market and consumer needs. Designed originally for netbook computers, the Intel AppUp center was first unveiled in a beta program in 2010, with plans to expand its scope...

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Samsung not sanctioned over leakage of Apple documents

A court in California has decided not to sanction Samsung Electronics for the leak of confidential Apple licensing information, stating that the information had not been misused in patent negotiations. The court has, however, asked the external counsel...

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Obama touches on NSA reform in State of the Union address

U.S. President Barack Obama repeated his call to reform intelligence surveillance programs, saying U.S. intelligence agencies need the trust of people inside and outside the country, during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. Obama promised...

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FileZilla warns of large malware campaign

Spoofed versions of the popular file transfer program FileZilla that steal data are circulating on third-party websites, the organization behind the software said Tuesday. FileZilla is an open source application, and hackers have taken its source code...

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Google ordered to pay royalty on AdWords revenue to Vringo

Google has been ordered by a court in Virginia to pay royalty to I/P Engine for infringing some claims of two of its patents through the AdWords advertising system. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...

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Global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion in 2013

If you had any doubts about the popularity of smartphones, new numbers suggest they've notched a significant milestone. The global smartphone market topped 1 billion shipments for the first time in 2013, covering about one-seventh of the world's population,...

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Microsoft cloud server designs for Facebook's Open Compute Project

Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware costs. The Redmond, Washington, tech company is also contributing...

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Dell KACE upgrade deploys OS upgrades to 250 devices, simultaneously

With Microsoft's deadline for the end of Windows XP support looming ever larger, Dell's KACE division launched a new version of its deployment appliance that can upgrade 250 PCs simultaneously. Version 3.6 of the Dell KACE K2000 deployment appliance...

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Microsoft says law enforcement documents likely stolen by hackers

Documents linked with law enforcement inquiries appear to have been stolen in recent phishing attacks on certain employee email accounts, Microsoft said. The technology giant said earlier this month that a small number of Microsoft employee social media...

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Google acquires artificial intelligence company DeepMind

Google has acquired DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company in London, reportedly for US$400 million. A Google representative confirmed the deal Sunday via email, but said the company's isn't providing any additional information at...

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China's Baidu testing search engines for Brazil, Egypt, Thailand

Baidu is testing new search engines for users outside China that will target markets in Brazil, Egypt and Thailand to start with. The search pages for the three markets have appeared online, although Baidu has not formally launched the services yet....

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Report: Apple planning a move into mobile payments service

Apple is making internal and external moves to expand its ability to handle mobile payments, stepping more deeply into a market where rivals would include eBay's PayPal, Google, and niche specialists like Square and Stripe, according to The Wall Street...

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Microsoft loses money on every Surface tablet it sells

Microsoft lost $39 million last quarter selling its Surface tablets, the company acknowledged in filings last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While Microsoft reported increased Surface revenue for the October to December...

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Arts and crafts chain Michaels investigates possible data breach

Michaels, a large U.S.-based arts and craft store chain, said Saturday it is investigating a possible data breach after suspicious activity was detected on payment cards used at its stores. The company opted to come forward without confirming a compromise...

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DOJ files its first lawsuits over counterfeit apps

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first lawsuits over counterfeit smartphone apps, charging four men who now face up to five years each in prison. "These crimes involve the large-scale violation of intellectual property rights in a relatively...

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Samsung's Apple damages equivalent to 16 days' profit

The $930 million in damages Samsung was ordered to pay Apple last year for infringing its smartphone patents is more than some device makers earn in a year, but for Samsung it's equal to just over 16 days' worth of profit. The Seoul-based company reported...

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Yahoo buys virtual worlds gaming company Cloud Party

Yahoo has acquired Cloud Party, a gaming company specializing in virtual worlds, in another deal to give the search giant more engineering chops. Cloud Party provided a multiplayer, three-dimensional gaming platform that could run directly in a Web...

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Neiman Marcus says 'complex' malware defeated its security

Neiman Marcus was unaware attackers had harvested payment card details until six weeks after the activity had ended, when its merchant processor zeroed in on a fraudulent spending pattern. The retailer gave its most complete account yet of its data...

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Profits stall at Samsung's mobile division

Profits were flat in the fourth quarter in Samsung Electronics' smartphone and tablet business, despite an uptick in sales, in part because the company spent more on marketing over the holiday shopping period. The company's IT and mobile communications...

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CNN's Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked

A number of CNN's social media accounts and blogs were hacked Thursday by a group styling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army. The cable news network said its main Facebook account, Twitter feeds and some blogs were targeted and content posted on some...

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Facebook testing its ads in third-party mobile apps

Facebook is testing its advertisements on outside mobile applications, calling it a new way for app developers to monetize their creations. The trial would pave the way for Facebook to open its own mobile advertising network, which would further boost...

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Google dismisses eavesdropping threat in Chrome feature

Google said there's no threat from a speech recognition feature in its Chrome browser that a developer said could be used to listen in on users. Web developer Tal Ater wrote he found the multiple bugs in Chrome while working on a JavaScript speech recognition...

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U.S. Supreme Court: Burden of proof of infringement on patent holder

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld that it is up to the patent holder ordinarily to prove infringement in a lawsuit, a ruling that could have vast implications on the litigious technology industry. The lawsuit traces its origin to a patent dispute between...

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Google Glass user questioned in Ohio theater for suspected piracy

Google Glass has raised privacy concerns in many countries. It now appears that it is being monitored as a potential aid to copyright infringement. A man who wore Google Glass to a movie theater in Ohio was detained and interrogated by officials of...

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As Target breach unfolds, information vanishes from Web

At least three security companies have scrubbed information related to Target from the Web, highlighting the ongoing sensitivity around one of the largest-ever data breaches. How hackers broke into Target and installed malware on point-of-sale terminals...

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California court rules Samsung infringed Apple patent ahead of trial

A court in California has ruled that Samsung Electronics infringed in its devices an Apple patent on word recommendations during text input, ahead of a March trial. Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,...

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Two coders closely tied to Target-related malware, security firm says

A Los Angeles security company has named a second individual living in Eastern Europe whom they suspect coded malicious software that was modified and used against Target. The information comes from an analysis of "cyberprints," or a collection of data...

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