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UK’s NSA counterpart tried tenaciously to keep surveillance a secret

If people only knew what the GCHQ was doing, they would fight them. That was the perception at the UK's counterpart to the NSA and they tried everything they could...

Did NSA.gov suffer from a DDoS attack?

As of the posting of this story, their website is not responding. It hasn't been responding for several hours. Is the US government's spy agency experience a DDoS attack? The...

Technology: the US government’s kryptonite

They try. They really do. President Obama has been arguably the most tech-friendly and tech-savvy president the country has ever seen. He cannot, by himself, turn a culture of backwards...

PlayStation 4 features: how they’ll look on day one

The greatly anticipated release of the PlayStation 4 is nearly upon us. This is a good thing, not just because gamers will be able to get their hands on it...

What did $30 million in iPads do for LA school district?

In short, they caused headaches for administrators, teachers, and tax payers. Did they help the students learn more? Probably not. Last week, I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in...

BlackBerry denies involvement in fake BBM reviews

When good reviews go bad, the potential beneficiary is always fingered. That's the case with BlackBerry whose popular BBM instant messaging app was "hit" with a ton of suspicious positive...

Government health care website scheduled to be fixed by November

It launched. It didn't work. Now they say they'll get it working by the end of next month. We'll believe it when we see it. The troubled federal health insurance...

Is Wikipedia dying?

People use Wikipedia. They even edit it. They're just not adding to it like they used to. The hub of all all human knowledge may be dying. The sixth most...

Twitter hits the road in preparation for their IPO

The Twitter IPO is coming and the team is hitting the road to sell their potential. Twitter has posted media related to its upcoming IPO Roadshow, scheduled to begin next...

LinkedIn already having to defend ‘Intro’

Earlier this week, LinkedIn announced their plans for Intro. Now, they're already having to defend the security of the service. LinkedIn on Thursday faced criticism from security experts and confusion...

Germany wants to disconnect from America’s internet

Germany is joining other countries in calling for isolation as further revelations about the NSA's spying techniques come to light. As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and...

Finding news on Facebook is a challenge for users

Whether we admit it or not, most of us would be okay with the right news finding its way into our Facebook news feed. After all, it IS called a...

Is HBO on its way out of the bundling constraints of Comcast?

If you have Comcast and you want HBO, chances are you have to pay for a lot of other things that you don't want. Comcast may be singing a different...

Who is bashing Apple’s free iWork software? A Microsoft executive, of course.

Of course he's bashing Apple. They're the biggest competitor. It's his job to bash them... or is there more to it than that? In this trash talking session, there may...

Where does Tesla get its tech people? Apple, of course.

If you're trying to find success for an obscure, high-end product that's ahead of its time, you might as well pull from a pool of people that helped to make...

From none to many: the smartwatch boom

This time last year, most had no idea what a smartwatch was or that they were on the horizon. Today, everyone seems to be building one. Wearable devices are in....

Samsung is basically printing money

With net profits of $7.6 billion last quarter, Samsung is moving forward and still looking strong before the lucrative Christmas quarter. Samsung Electronics has reported a 26% jump in profit...

New York City is going all LED by 2017

With a quarter of a million street lights, New York City is always lit up. In less than four years, they'll be lit up the right way. New York City...

California joins initiative to put 3.3 electric vehicles on the road

If you can't convince people that going green is the right way to go, you can either give them an incentive to do so or a penalty for not doing...

I, for one, embrace our future robot overlords

The thought of artificial intelligence being the catalyst for the eventual demise of the human race makes for some pretty cool science fiction, but as we get closer to having...