The offices of Zynga, Pinterest, AirBnB and other companies in San Francisco's South of Market District were under lockdown Friday after a shooting at a nearby store located in the same building as AirBnB's headquarters. read more
Microsoft has completed its purchase of InCycle's InRelease business unit, announced in June, and is now deploying the software to offer DevOps capabilities to its Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server users. read more
AT&T plans to acquire Leap Wireless, operator of the Cricket prepaid mobile service, in what would be the latest consolidation of the U.S. mobile industry. read more
AT&T plans to acquire Leap Wireless, operator of the Cricket prepaid mobile service, in what would be the latest consolidation of the U.S. mobile industry. …
With a shareholder vote scheduled for July 18, the battle over Dell's US$24.4 billion plan to go private intensified Friday as investor Carl Icahn and his affiliates issued an enhanced offer for the company. read more
In another example of the consumerization of IT, people have embraced cloud storage and file sharing services like Dropbox both at home and at work, and CIOs better take notice about this trend, according to a Forrester Research report. read more
Scientists have discovered that, by using nanostructured glass and five dimensional digital data recording, they may be able to store 360TB of data forever. …
Chinese government officials agreed to crack down on software and other piracy and to take steps to ensure that state-owned organizations use legal software. read more
Chinese government officials agreed to crack down on software and other piracy and to take steps to ensure that state-owned organizations use legal software. …
Microsoft this week said a pair of vulnerabilities, including one publicly disclosed by a Google security engineer in May, had been exploited in the wild before they were patched on Tuesday. …
Running late for a meet up with friends or an appointment? Share a location securely and for a limited time period with smartphone application Glympse. It's a free download for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. read more
It's 10 a.m. on a bright, sunny morning in Newark, California, but in the windowless control room at ShotSpotter the lights are dimmed. Two operators are watching banks of displays connected to a network of acoustic sensors located in cities across the U.S. read more
A disaster movie on the SyFy channel about sharks raining down on L.A., lit up Twitter on Thursday night. …
Mobile malware attacks — most of them aimed at Android devices — are up six-fold since last year, an increase due mainly to the use of free mobile apps from sketchy vendors, according to studies by McAfee and Juniper Networks. …
Fugitive classified document leaker Edward Snowden, holed up at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport since June 23, today accused the U.S. government of using ‘historically disproportionate aggression’ to get him back to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. …
It may not quite be a character out of The Terminator, but university scientists have developed a way to use 3D printing to create structures made out of liquid metal. …
If Steve Ballmer’s words mean anything, Microsoft is about to dramatically expand the number — and type — of devices it makes in-house. …
Today in Open Source: Too many Linux distros? Linux Mint 15 Xfce released, and a full review of the Open Pandora handheld gaming system. read more
Following up on the popular YouTube educational series by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, one of the International Space Station's newest recruits, NASA's Karen Nyberg, is busy demonstrating daily life in space. read more
Intel CTO Justin Rattner, who recently announced his departure, leaves behind a legacy of putting people back in technology development. He helped put Intel chips in more products, but he also encouraged innovation that improves everyday life. Because of Rattner, today's college students want to be tomorrow's engineers. …
Twitter has handed French prosecutors information enabling the identification of some of those responsible for posts last year apparently contravening French laws on hate speech, according to the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF), which had filed suits against the company to compel it to release the data. read more
Yes, already, Google Android lovers. Plus, HTC being a tool but actually coming up with sensible device names, Verizon's big plans, new Google Maps and – oh, yeah – CRAZY TAXI! read more
Engineers at the University of Michigan are looking to use spacecraft the size of a loaf of bread to study interplanetary space faster and cheaper. read more
Microsoft has already received several vulnerability reports that qualify for monetary rewards as part of the company's bug bounty program launched in June for the preview version of Internet Explorer 11. read more
A Japanese ministry is conducting an internal investigation after a Google Groups account used for international treaty negotiations was left on its default, publicly viewable settings. read more
The government’s new approach to dealing with problematic hardware is catching on read more