At least two security software suites are struggling with Windows 8.1, leaving users potentially unprotected as they upgrade to the new version of Microsoft's operating system.
Mark Hachman | 28 Oct | Read more
Microsoft is baking a replacement cookie technology that would share content between mobile and desktop PC browsers, and even the Xbox, in an effort to take the growing market for mobile ads and target them even more effectively at the end user.
Mark Hachman | 10 Oct | Read more
Caspar Bowden, who authored Microsoft's privacy policy between 2002 and 2011 for 40 countries, said this week that he distrusts his former employer and has gone so far as to ditch his mobile phone.
Mark Hachman | 30 Sep | Read more
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged that the "CTRL-ALT-DEL" means of logging into your Windows PC was a mistake, although done with the best of intentions.
Mark Hachman | 26 Sep | Read more
A new California law gives minors the right to ask Web sites like Facebook, Google and Twitter to remove or hide any content they wish, essentially allowing kids to "scrub" their digital history before they enter the adult world.
Mark Hachman | 24 Sep | Read more
Users have been able to unlock notebooks and other devices using fingerprints and other biometric methods for years now. Bionym Tuesday unveiled a wristband that the company says can identify you from your heartbeat alone.
Mark Hachman | 03 Sep | Read more
Microsoft has reminded, cajoled, and pleaded with users to move off of Windows XP before support for its old OS expires next year. Now Microsoft warns users that they may be subject to "zero-day" threats for the rest of their lives if they don't migrate.
Mark Hachman | 16 Aug | Read more
Area 51 has been firmly embedded in American lore, often as the home of little green men secreted away in the Nevada desert. Now, the U.S. government has acknowledged the existence of the site in a history of the Lockheed CL-282, also known as the U-2 spy plane.
Mark Hachman | 16 Aug | Read more
Angry, mocking murmurs rattled off the walls of the player lobby. The caped avenger barely paused. Then the epithets began: stinging, hateful words that juxtaposed one toon's manhood with his mother. That did it. The hero spun, hurling his all-powerful mallet at the offender's head, and sounded the cry feared by evildoers everywhere:
Mark Hachman | 02 Aug | Read more
Microsoft said Wednesday that it planned to release an "enterprise feature pack" for corporations who wish to adopt Windows Phone, while extending the support lifecycle for Windows Phone 8 to 36 months, through 2016.
Mark Hachman | 11 Jul | Read more
In a bid to purge insecure software from the Windows Store, Microsoft has announced that it would remove apps that it deems to have critical vulnerabilities.
Mark Hachman | 10 Jul | Read more
Both Facebook and Microsoft said late Friday that they had been given permission from the U.S. government to disclose how many times the two companies had been asked to turn over user information to the Feds as part of a national security order.
Mark Hachman | 15 Jun | Read more
Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for the last several years, via a program known as PRISM.
Mark Hachman | 08 Jun | Read more
For the last several years, the National Security Agency has been reportedly spying on the searches, emails, and file transfers of Americans using a program called PRISM--which tapped directly into the servers used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others.
Mark Hachman | 07 Jun | Read more
Microsoft said Tuesday that it has moved its botnet-fighting capabilities to the cloud, a step that will make its response teams both faster and more effective in fighting hijacked PCs.
Mark Hachman | 29 May | Read more