WASHINGTON—In a digital era update to the lost and found booth, a Facebook page started by an Alabama woman is reuniting victims of the killer US tornadoes with their precious family photos and documents. As of Friday afternoon, the page featured more than 600 pictures and documents, many just scraps after the powerful winds picked [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—The agency in charge of the world’s Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security. Moss, whose hacker name is Dark Tangent, is the founder of Black Hat computer security conferences as well as an infamous DefCon gathering of hackers that takes place annually in Las Vegas. [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia— Faded social networking site Friendster will soon delete nearly a decade’s worth of user photos, blog entries and other data in a revamp to set it apart from Facebook, a company official said Thursday. The overhaul is meant to help Friendster regain a semblance of online relevance after being outmuscled by Facebook, [...]
WASHINGTON—Apple on Wednesday denied claims it was tracking iPhone users but said it would fix software “bugs” that resulted in location data being unencrypted and stored for up to a year. “Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone,” the California-based company said in its first response to privacy questions raised by a pair [...]
WASHINGTON—Facebook began offering a deals program on Tuesday similar to the online bargains made popular by Groupon, LivingSocial and other companies. Deals on Facebook are initially only available in five US cities – Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco – but the social network said it hopes to extend the feature to other [...]
NEW YORK—Private US company SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years, the head of the firm said. “We’ll probably put a first man in space in about three years,” Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. “We’re going all the way to Mars, I think… best case 10 [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft said Friday it was raising pay for employees to retain “top talent” in the fiercely competitive market for skilled technology workers. “Through our history, we have been THE place people came when they wanted to make a difference in the world through software, hardware and services,” Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer [...]
WASHINGTON—Cyber threats such as Stuxnet pose an increasing risk to critical infrastructure worldwide but many facilities are unprepared to face the danger, according to a report released on Tuesday. “We found that the adoption of security measures in important civilian industries badly trailed the increase in threats over the last year,” said Stewart Baker of [...]
WASHINGTON—Match.com has announced plans to begin screening applicants against the US national sex offender registry after a woman was allegedly assaulted by a man she met through the dating site. Match.com, which claims millions of members for its dating sites in 25 countries, said it planned to begin checking existing and new subscribers against the [...]
MANILA, Philippines—As technology giants battle it out to become the world’s top smart phone vendor, Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) has decided to go back to its roots by focusing on the market that drove BlackBerry’s success: the corporate sector. In a recent briefing, local RIM officials announced several new developments, effectively increasing the role [...]
MANILA, Philippines—With the new GE PJ1 digital camera, a lot of shutterbugs can now easily view and share their favorite photos or videos with relatives and friends anytime by projecting the images on a white wall or surface. The GE PJ1 is actually the first point-and-shoot digital camera from GE Imaging that is equipped with [...]
MANILA, Philippines—For technology innovator Samsung, the television has become the key appliance to tinker with, hoping to integrate features of the PC, Internet and 3D technology. After all, the TV is the most user-friendly gadget (just a click of the remote and it operates) and a device well suited for a family—where the television is, [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The world wide web is also a wholly wild world and schools are not exempt from threats lurking online. With that in mind, Watchguard Technologies wants to donate 90 units of “security appliances” worth P4 million to 50 learning institutions in Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao within the year. The first schools to receive [...]
