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It’s a contradiction. In Europe, network security is a big issue that scares just about everybody but nobody seems to care enough to do anything about it. Just 48 percent of European Union Internet users surveyed several months ago had changed any of their online passwords during the past year
Snooping has been a hot topic since Edward Snowden revealed his vast wealth of data on the NSA. Now, social networking site Twitter is taking the potential for a leak to heart. Twitter has implemented new security measures that should make it much more difficult for anyone to eavesdrop on communicat
When a game that’s three decades old makes a comeback, it’s usually just as an homage. This time, M.U.L.E. is coming back for real on iOS. It’s been three decades since M.U.L.E. was first released on the Atari 800, but we’ve got no time for wistful memories as the classic str
It’s common for US companies to outsource their labor to companies in Asia. It’s not so common for those companies to then open up manufacturing plants in the United States. iPhone manufacturing powerhouse Foxconn is planning to drop a cool $40 million in the United States to build a man
The beleaguered government healthcare website had some good news this week when they announced that they were doubling the capacity to increase visitor load. HealthCare.gov, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ troubled insurance-shopping website, will double its user capacity by
Foxconn is following in the steps of some other manufacturers, who are relocating facilities to the US at the behest of clients wanting to be seen as keeping jobs in the US, and/or wanting to take advantage of factors like lower shipping costs and keeping designers closer to assembly for the sake of
One of Sony’s biggest shareholders has pleaded with the company to detach Sony Entertainment from the Japanese company and offer it up on the stock market as a standalone business. CEO Hirai declined the idea but still acknowledged that Sony’s movie division is in need of a change. Under
Speaking during a day-long meeting with investors at the company’s HQ, Intel chairman Andy Bryant admitted how ill-prepared the company had been for the transition from the PC to post-PC devices and how he is ’embarrassed’ that company had lost its way. There’s little doubt t
Several museums have been experimenting with 3D scanning and printing for historic artifacts but the Smithsonian Institution is first to actually create a digital 3D archive of historic artifacts that are available for viewing and printing. The Smithsonian Institution is leading the way for major mu
Spotify, a Swedish music streaming service, has closed $250 million in funding and is being valued at over $4 billion. Pandora, the largest player in the streaming music market, is currently valued at more than $5 billion. Streaming music service Spotify has just closed $250 million in funding, repo
People used to consider encryption more of a luxury than a necessity, but that all changed when information on the NSA’s spying came to light. Now people, companies, and entire governments are scrambling to protect their information behind walls of encryption. Very soon we’ll be seeing e
The Wikimedia Foundation launched an investigation last month that found a Texas-based public relations firm creating hundreds of fake Wikipedia entries on behalf of its clients. The Wikimedia Foundation this week accused a Texas-based public relations firm of creating hundreds of fake Wikipedia ent
