Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders form Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in clean energy
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies … Some of the world's wealthiest …
Amazon shows off new Prime Air drone with hybrid design, is part helicopter, part airplane, can cover over 15 miles, fly over 55 mph
Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design — Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ project.
Inside VTech hack: poorly encrypted passwords, security Q&As in plain text, kid data matched to parent addresses, no SSL, outdated software on many sites, more
When children are breached - inside the massive VTech hack — I suspect we're all getting a little bit too conditioned to data breaches lately.
BlackBerry Confirms It Will Exit Pakistan After Rejecting Data Monitoring Demands
BlackBerry has confirmed that it is exiting Pakistan entirely in response to the national government's continued demand to monitor user data on the Canadian company's service.
Thanksgiving/Black Friday Online Sales Hit $4.5B, 34% Of Purchases Made On Mobile
The first two days of the holiday sales period have netted $4.45 billion in U.S. online purchases, with mobile devices — led by smartphones — accounting for a record $1.5 billion of that amount …
VTech confirms that data of about 5M customer accounts and related kids profiles in its Learning Lodge app store has been accessed
Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update) — VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed …
NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans' phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama adm...
Microsoft launches PowerApps for businesses to create mobile and web-based apps on iOS, Android, and Windows
Microsoft takes wraps off PowerApps mobile-app creation service — Microsoft is opening up a limited preview of its PowerApps service for creating, sharing and managing mobile business apps …
Office 365 enterprise users get Skype for Business meeting, conferencing, and calling features
Microsoft today released new Skype for Business voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365. The new features include Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing, and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling.
Recent cases show that Dropbox is proactively notifying law enforcement about users who upload child porn
After Dropbox finds a child porn collector, a chess club stops his knife attack — “I failed my mission to kill everyone.” — Dustin Brown wanted a secure grip on the two knives he had selected to s...
FCC hires privacy maverick Jonathan Mayer as technical lead for probes into telephone, television, and Internet service providers on consumer protection issues
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Mp3.com founder Michael Robertson launches OnRadio, which lets you search for and play songs from 100K+ online radio streams
a database of every song being played NOW on online radio stations http://fortune.com/...
Interview: Expedia CEO Envisions Direct Competition With Airbnb Over Next Few Years
Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi thinks the competition with Airbnb has been a sideshow but will be increasingly direct in coming years as Expedia and HomeAway build up apartment and home inventory ...
How waste specialists and nonprofits manage the leftover food from Silicon Valley companies' extravagance
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German ISPs may have to block pirate sites if copyright holders exhaust all other options to identify operators or hosting providers, supreme court says
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Profile of iFixit, the company helping us continue doing DIY repairs on modern electronics
How to Fix Everything — It happened suddenly, like most of these stories do. My alarm went off. I kicked my leg out as I jolted awake, making solid contact with my new laptop … Tweets: @adrjeffrie...
HP Spectre x2 review: a top tier 2-in-1 with great design, solid detachable keyboard, impressive speakers, but short battery life
Sam Rutherford / Laptop Mag : Thanks: @mspoonauer
Readdle's marketing head on how PDF Expert became the #1 top paid app in the Mac App Store globally
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How Kane Robinson, who ran the obscure music forum Dancing Jesus, became the target of the UK's biggest piracy case
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Hilton Worldwide identifies and eradicates malware that collected credit card data from point-of-sale systems from late 2014 to mid 2015
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.