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Following years of complaints about the login options related to apps and services, and on the heels of its controversial Nearby Friends feature, Facebook has announced changes to their login process that includes anonymous sign in. As a massive and profitable online business, Facebook has always been rather sell-happy with […]
After last year’s announcement that they had acquired Nokia for $7.9 billion, Microsoft has confirmed that both the handset company’s shareholders and regulatory agencies have approved the deal. In the past, the results of Microsoft’s mobile efforts have been mixed. The Windows Phone has its share of supporters, but the […]
Technology giants like Google, Microsoft and Facebook have finally decide to bind together to create a collaborative effort to secure OpenSSL, following the massive Heartbleed vulnerability that not only presented many opportunities for exploitation by hackers, but gave the government backdoor access into the majority of online services. Heartbleed might […]
Processor manufacturing stalwart Qualcomm has announced the coming of the Snapdragon 810 and 808 chipsets. These next-gen chips are expected to power the latest smartphones and gadgets coming in the year 2015. The majority of smartphones have a Qualcomm of some description powering it, with the exception of a few […]
Amazon have just announced during a live event their first video streaming device: Fire TV set-top box. The event started with Peter Limp on the stage saying that Amazon is looking forward to solve three major issues of current video streaming devices: search, performance, and “closed ecosystem”. On a first look […]
In a surprise announcement late on Tuesday, Facebook has announced that they have come to a deal with Oculus VR, Inc., the company behind 3-D virtual reality gaming device Oculus Rift. Leading the way in VR technology as it stands to date, Oculus Rift was originally funding on Kickstarter by […]
This week launched the annual CanSecWest conference. But the real events were the two contests, Pwn2Own and Pwn4Fun, which saw more than a million in prizes awarded to both hackers and charity in the name of cyber security exposure. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari were […]
