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Tonight, at midnight Eastern Standard Time, Yahoo! will unveil its new logo. If you’re confused—yes, Yahoo! has been “unveiling a new logo” (read: comic sans rendering of Yahoo!) at midnight for the past 29 days. It’s all part of an unusual plan to evade the virulent public b
On September 1, Kim Dotcom published a tweet suggesting he has plans to enter the political arena. TorrentFreak caught up with the Internet entrepreneur who told us that a political program has already been drafted and potential candidates are being met. If all goes to plan a brand new party will ba
Forget eyes and fingerprints. The Nymi bracelet wants the future of biometric password protection to be your own unique cardiac rhythm. Future authentication methods need to be a lot harder to hack. That’s the idea behind the Nymi from startup Bionym. Instead of passwords, Nymi relies on your
Syria’s civil war and political strife inEgypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet security company. More than half of incidents in the Gulf this year were so-called “hacktivist” attacks
BT, Virgin Media, BSkyB and Talk Talk are being asked to sign up to a voluntary code for policing illegal downloading Broadband providers are being asked to create a database of customers illegally downloading music, films and books, which could be used to disconnect or prosecute persistent offender
All those people staring at their tablets on airplanes, the buttons to their Economist app conspicuously displayed—are they more likely to spend the flight actually reading theEconomist, or slingshotting irate avians into green pig heads? Or maybe they’re reading about the latest coup in Africa, or
Digital bad guys are as concerned about return on investment (ROI) as any big business. That’s why they attack credit-card processing centers rather than gathering account information one credit card at a time. It’s also why they’re more interested in cracking online password managers instead of ste
Twitter is preparing itself for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company as highly as $15 billion, reports the Sunday Times, citing anonymous (but nonetheless compelling) senior banking sources. Twitter’s CEO, Dick Costolo, has already met with potential advisers from Morgan Sta
The Yahoo portal in China contains a farewell message citing adjustments to its operations strategy as the reason for the change. Yahoo’s news and community services have shut down in China, following the closure of its email service last month. The Yahoo China home page now redirects users to
Candy Crush Saga, the popular mobile device game by King.com, has seen some spectacular success. Now, it turns out the candy-puzzle game has grown faster than an algorithm charting its progress could handle. AppData, a market research firm that followsFacebookFB +0.03% usage of various games and app
Verizon and Vodafone have finally announced a deal that’s at least three years in the making: Verizon is to pay Vodafone $130 billion for the British operator group’s 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. The companies’ boards have given their approval and the transaction should close in the first q
According to Sony, the PlayStation 4 will feature a voice command system which will allow users to control the console by speaking to it—much like the Xbox One’s Kinect-powered system. The feature will be routed through PlayStation Camera’s built-in microphone, and Sony plans to dribble
