Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine. Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004, at a time when Microsoft’s …
Facebook’s Messenger is now one of the most used mobile messaging apps in the world, with more than 500 million people logging in monthly, the company said Monday. “This is an exciting milestone,” said Peter Martinazzi, Facebook’s director of product management, announcing the stat. Facebook’s main app has around 1.35 …
Facebook’s move to spin off messages into a separate app was an unpopular one, but a success nonetheless. Facebook Messenger now has 500 million monthly active users, more than doubling the size of its base in the last six months. Facebook has added several features to make Messenger more appealing …
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in iPhones and iPads that allows attackers to install fake apps that take the place of legitimate ones. FireEye, a mobile security company based in California, said the problem, which it calls “Masque Attack,” allows attackers to potentially gain access to vast amounts of …
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in iPhones and iPads that allows attackers to install fake apps that take the place of legitimate ones. FireEye, a mobile security company based in California, said the problem, which it calls “Masque Attack,” allows attackers to potentially gain access to vast amounts of …
Nicholas Carr’s essay IT Doesn’t Matter in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, and the later book, argued that IT is shifting to a service delivery model comparable to electric utilities. It produced debate and defensiveness among IT managers over the possibility that they were sliding to irrelevancy. It’s a …
A U.S. Postal Service data breach has potentially compromised the personal information of 800,000 employees, as well as some customers who contacted the government service. The data breach of some USPS information systems, being investigated by the FBI, may include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses and other …
A U.S. Postal Service data breach has potentially compromised the personal information of 800,000 employees, as well as some customers who contacted the government service. The data breach of some USPS information systems, being investigated by the FBI, may include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses and other …
Apple last week published a tool that lets iPhone owners sever the link to iMessage, iOS’s texting service, when they leave the Cupertino circle of devices for Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone. The tool, which allows former owners to disable iMessage even after they’ve disposed of their iPhones, was the …
Feeling ashamed of your latest Kim Kardashian news binge? The latest version of Firefox can easily forget all about it. Firefox version 33.1 adds a new button called “Forget,” which lets users wipe only their most recent browsing history and cookies. Users can choose to forget the last 5 minutes, …
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency reportedly wants to spend €300 million (about US$375 million) in the next five years on technology that would let it spy in real time on social networks outside of Germany, and decrypt and monitor encrypted Internet traffic. The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) wants the funds for …
As tipped in October, a new Raspberry Pi Model A board just landed—and it’s cheaper and much smaller than its predecessor. On Monday, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton introduced the Model A+. It knocks $5 off the price and drops close to an inch of physical length compared to the …
Back in January 2013, BlackBerry gave me its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, the Z10, for review. It also gave me a “reviewer’s kit” composed of a number of accessories: a case, screen cleaner cloth and a “battery charger bundle,” among other things. I like the BlackBerry Z10, but after a …
President Obama has made his strongest statement on net neutrality to date, calling on the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband as a regulated utility and to prohibit broadband providers from charging Web content producers for paid traffic prioritization. Obama on Monday called on the FCC to reclassify broadband as …
Enterprise smartphone users were almost six times as likely to get an iPhone 6 as the larger Plus model, according to data from enterprise mobility vendor Good Technology. September saw the introduction of many new smartphones, but the launch of Apple’s iPhone 6 with its 4.7-inch screen and the iPhone …
As growth in cloud-based storage products continues to accelerate, enterprise vendors have taken cloud storage to the next level. The hybrid model, which utilizes both local and offsite storage, offers organizations a way to more seamlessly scale up and manage large amounts of data with a single-vendor service. To read …
Hewlett-Packard wants to make BYOD easier for small businesses through a new cloud-based service to manage and protect mobile devices and PCs. The company’s Web-based Touchpoint Manager service, launched Monday, can remotely check the health of smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. It can also issue alerts and remotely lock or …
Apple is at last offering a simple way for former iPhone users to receive text messages sent into limbo by the company’s iMessage service. The problem affects former iPhone users who transferred their SIM card or phone number to a non-Apple phone. If they had set up their iPhone to …
U.S. President Barack Obama has made his strongest statement on net neutrality to date, calling on the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband as a regulated utility, and to prohibit broadband providers from charging Web content producers for paid traffic prioritization. Obama on Monday called on the FCC to reclassify …
BrowserStack is a cross-browser testing tool that allows its 25,000 customers to test their websites on over 700 different web browsers across various desktop operating systems and mobile platforms. It claims to have some big guns like Microsoft, GitHub, eBay, Adobe, MIT, VISA, and Wikipedia as customers. BrowserStack The fact …
For the past four years a group of sophisticated hackers has compromised the networks of luxury hotels to launch malware attacks against corporate executives and entrepreneurs traveling on business in the Asia-Pacific region. The cyberespionage group, which researchers from Kaspersky Lab dubbed Darkhotel, operates by injecting malicious code into the …
A new version of LibreOffice’s Calc program has broken many spreadsheets, users say, and a perceived unwillingness by developers to address the problem has sparked an ill-tempered argument. The problem has to do with a new method of sorting reference cells that diverges from the method used in both previous …
Certificate authority DigiCert is considering issuing SSL certificates to more Tor .onion address owners after recently providing Facebook with one. However, SSL certificates for pseudo-top-level domains like .onion that don’t actually exist on the Internet are in the process of being phased out and the Tor Project has not yet …
For the past four years a group of sophisticated hackers has compromised the networks of luxury hotels to launch malware attacks against corporate executives and entrepreneurs traveling on business in the Asia-Pacific region. The cyberespionage group, which researchers from Kaspersky Lab dubbed Darkhotel, operates by injecting malicious code into the …
AT&T will pay US$2.5 billion to acquire Mexican wireless company lusacell, in a major push to expand its coverage and improve mobile Internet service for those living south of the U.S. border. The acquisition, announced Friday, includes lusacell’s network assets, licenses, retail stores, and its 8.6 million subscribers. AT&T expects …
Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set up using a special feature of the Tor network, which is designed to mask people’s Internet use …