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With the ever increasing risk of a submarine attack, the US government is working on a simulation software to help track enemy submarines during submarine warfare. They are looking for gamers to help test the...

A company rating and review website, Glassdoor.com, regularly quizzes employees of tech companies how they feel about their current CEO asking: "Do you approve of the way your CEO is leading the company?" Unfortunately for...

Microsoft is working hard to make cloud services more like desktop applications. One way they are doing that is by making Hotmail a little more accessible by creating an icon you can pin to your...

Last year, Google announced that they would be bringing 1Gb per second fiber to the home broadband to one lucky city in the US. After that announcement, they had over 1,100 cities apply for the...

Larry Hyrb also known as Xbox Live’s Major Nelson posted on his blog today that Microsoft is opening up their next system update to the public. Microsoft has created an application for for Xbox 360...

MySQL.com, home of the popular database software used to power much of the web, was hacked by a SQL injection attack over the weekend. The hackers were able to use the exploit to extract usernames...

Whenever you visit a secure website (HTTPS) your browser verifies that site is properly secured based on the sites certificate. If the site doesn't have a valid certificate, most browsers make it pretty clear that...

In the enterprise virtualization world VMWare is the dominant force but companies like Microsoft have been working to change the virtual world. With acquisitions and improvements in their software and licensing structure Microsoft's Hyper-V has...

Google has announced via their Office Blog that Google Voice and Sprint are teaming up. Google Voice's availability at Sprint has been limited to cell phones that could support the Google Voice app. That's all...

There have been several studies released that suggest that as people use their cell phones more they become dependent on them. Separating them from their cell phone creates anxiety and stress. Michelle Hackman, a teenager...

A study done by Whitehat Security found that educational institutions were the most likely to be vulnerable while banks and healthcare institutions were the least vulnerable. According to NetworkWorld, the study is based off of...

A project thought up by Nigel Tyrell, head of Environment at Lewisham, named LoveCleanStreets, came about in 2004. The project allowed anyone that spotted trash or graffiti around the area to report it by taking...

Plextor sent us their PX-NAS4 and gave us a chance to get down and dirty with the device. The PX-NAS4 is essentially a home storage server with the capability to connect to the computer via...

Researchers at the University of California in San Diego have found that the tried and true techniques used to erase a typical hard drive aren't quite as effective when used on solid state drives(SSD). The...

HBGary, a security firm based out of California, was recently the target of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Recently, HBGary's CEO claimed that he was able to infiltrate and learn the identity of the Anonymous leaders....

According to Websense, a company that makes web filtering software, BBC 6 Music and BBC 1Xtra radio had their websites hacked recently. The malicious code is executed when you load the page. The injected iframe occurs...

Targeted advertising is everywhere on the web, your browsing habits help ad engines decide what content you are most likely to click on. This alone bothers some people, but how would you feel if advertisers...

NetworkWorld had a chance to sit down and interview Mike German, 16-year veteran of the FBI who is now the ALCU's Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy. It was very eye opening to...

During the heights of the protests in Egypt, the Egyptian government cut off Internet in the entire country. This led to companies like Google to offer a voice recognition service for Egyptians to share information...

According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index concerning mobile data across the globe, there was 2.6 times more traffic in 2010 over 2009. All of this data came out to be roughly 237 petabytes per month,...

In a blog post Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of the Online Services Division wants to set the record straight between Bing and Google. During Farsight 2011, an event sponsored by Bing, Google questioned Microsoft...

Consumer Watchdog feels that Google is getting special treatment from the US government because of a secret relationship Google has with it. The group is asking the public to speak up and get congress to...

Microsoft really wants to sell their Windows 7 tablets so they provided their partners with some material to show why the iPad isn't the right choice in a corporate environment. The material was a 10...

A bill created last year by US Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins that would give the President power over the internet in the event of a "cyberemergency" and prohibit any review by the court...

With more and more content becoming available online, many consumers are looking for a way to get that content into their living room. Some consumers are even looking to replace their costly cable subscription with...

Microsoft has displayed some very surprising reactions to those wanting to hack the Windows Phone 7 devices. It may be that since it is legal to jailbreak your phone they are embracing something they can...

Spelling alteration is a technique search engines use to help you get better search results. It fixes errors when you misspell something, it can show alternative spellings of words and it can find synonyms of...

According to the Guardian, listeners of BBC4 radio show; "You and Yours," said that shortly after getting the Kinect their Xbox died showing the dreaded red ring of death. Though Microsoft has fought hard to...

While many schools around the nation have adopted and maintained a one to one ratio of laptops to students, very few have moved to tablets like the iPad. As part of a pilot program, Roslyn...

Government workers and contractors must have dropped their guard in anticipation of the the upcoming holiday season when a spoofed eCard made its way around. On December 23rd an eCard was sent to a few...

Even though Call of Duty: Black Ops has been available to the public for just under two months the game has achieved what most could not achieve all year. Black Ops was this year's most...

The spirit of Christmas is catching, we've been in the mood to give away a lot of great prizes lately. Logitech has given us more great products to give away, 10 lucky winners will receive...

Until today Google's Chrome OS has been free of added bloat, but according to the Google Operating System Blog the Chrome 10 Dev Channel build will include two HTML5 games: Poppit and Entaglement. If you're...

Google has finally opened the Google eBookstore offering a little more competition in the ebook space. Google executives describe the store as an "open ecosystem" with millions of free and paid books from over 4000...

A few days ago, Neowin reported that Dutch authorities had arrested a 16 year old in connection to the distributed denial of service attacks that took place on behalf of Wikileaks as part of Operation:...

If there is one person to keep up with this time of year, it's Santa. Everyone is always wondering; what smartphone is he using to communicate with his elves, what tablet is he using to...

Valve has decided that their quality assurance team doesn't quite do enough to make sure Team Fortress is perfect. They stated, on the Team Fortress 2 blog, that as much as they change TF2, and...

Microsoft has officially launched their Xbox LIVE Rewards program today. The program is open to all Xbox LIVE members, both paid and free. Though the program is open to the Silver Xbox LIVE members, the...

Every once in awhile a browser plug-in will show up in Firefox whether you gave it permission to be there by accident or maybe without any permission at all. A top Mozilla executive is tired...