Count Mark Zuckerberg among the hundreds of thousands of new users that Viddy, a mobile-video social network, is adding each day. The Facebook chief recently joined and uploaded a clip of his dog, Beast, which brought a wave of publicity...
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Hackers' favorite security hole last year was a Windows vulnerability from four years ago, according to Symantec.
If you need more proof that users are a weak link in computer security, look no further than today’s report from Symantec, which showed that hackers’ favorite target in 2011 was a security hole fixed about four years ago. The...
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The number of U.S. spam text messages rose 45 percent last year to 4.5 billion, according to Richi Jennings , an industry analyst.
Some 4.5 billion spam text messages were sent in the U.S. last year. The surge is costing carriers money and frustrating users, who must pay for the messages and deal with the influx of potentially fraudulent texts. To reduce the...
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Several tech startups are selling products or services that rely on antennas to grab over-the-air TV signals.
Rabbit ears are hopping back into the picture. Several startups are breathing new life into an old technology that relies on antennas to grab over-the-air TV signals. “Rabbit ears, broadcast television: It is a forgotten technology,” Boxee Chief Executive Officer...
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LinkedIn's new iPad app can pull in relevant information about the people you're meeting with.
For a pioneering tech company, LinkedIn has been way behind in creating an app for the iPad crowd. In November, the issue elicited this comment on Quora: “It’s baffling to me for a company that seems to do so many...
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Forrester Research CEO George Colony said that without Steve Jobs at the helm, Apple will 'coast and then decelerate.'
As analysts, investors and other pundits try to out-superlative one another talking about Apple’s second-quarter results from yesterday, the CEO of one of the leading market research firms used the event as an opportunity to warn that the iPhone maker...
Read more »Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked on yesterday’s earnings call whether it would be in the company’s best interests to clear the decks of all its various patent suits. Back in 2009, when asked about the mobile competition on a...
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Apple has sold 67 million iPads in the two years it’s been on the market.
On today’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked by Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi whether Apple would come up with some kind of tablet-laptop hybrid, so consumers would only need to carry one device. Cook, who is known...
Read more »Apple just reported its earnings. A full story is coming shortly, but until then, here are some quick highlights: Quarterly revenue was $39.2 billion, quarterly net profit was $11.6 billion (about double a year ago). International sales made up 64...
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Google Drive gives users online storage similar to a hard drive’s, allowing access to files from computers and other devices.
Google Drive sure took the long way to get here. Details of a storage service called “GDrive” first came out in March 2006, a few months before Twitter launched and almost a year before Apple’s first iPhone made its...
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