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Skype Bug Allows for Android Lock Screen Override

The latest update to Skype has enabled a bug that allows users to bypass lock screens on Android devices. Currently, that amounts to 100 million devices that could be compromised. An XDA-Developers ...

Ubisoft Account Database Breached, Emails and Passwords Exposed

Ubisoft, the father of the famous Assassin’s Creed videogame series, is advising all users to change their passwords and, in some cases, email addresses immediately. Just yesterday, the large game company announced ...

Two Handy Email Inbox Management Tools

Do you have trouble mastering your inbox? You’re not alone: the average business owner receives 110 emails a day, and that number is supposed to increase to 125 by 2015 according to ...

New Experimental Twitter Feature Embeds Tweets

Twitter, in an effort to connect news with tweets, is testing a feature that embeds 140-characters messages into longer stories that mention the tweet topic. Twitter says this is part of a larger, over-all strategy ...

Microsoft To Offer Weekly Windows 8 Updates

To keep up with the ever-changing technology industry, Microsoft announced last Monday that it will now be offering weekly updates to their newest version of Windows, Windows 8. Microsoft believes that this ...

AltaVista Finally Bids the Internet Goodbye, Along with 11 Other Services

AltaVista, a name not recognized by many of the Internet’s users of today, is finally going offline for good. Yahoo wrote a few days ago that it was killing off AltaVista and ...

Tablet Market May be Shifting; “Convertible” Tablets Rising in Popularity

Market analysts and talking heads have been predicting a paradigm shift in the world of computing – that the era of laptop computing would soon abdicate to the new, exciting world ...

FingerQ: Making Your Mobile Data More Secure

While the technology to add fingerprint recognition to mobile devices has been in existence for a while, FingerQ, a company based on Hong Kong, has decided to shed some new light on ...

Mobile Malware: Up 614% in the Last Year

In 2011, people were worried because malware that infected cellphones was up 155%. Now, from March 2012 to March 2013, it’s up 614%. New forms of software and hardware are coming onto ...

Barnes & Noble Shifting Production of Nook to Third Party

Nook users, you’re about to be an endangered species. A few days ago, Barnes & Noble, one of the last remaining book sellers in the United States that still maintain physical locations, ...

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