Android malware has infected possibly one to five million downloads — “the highest distribution of any malware identified so far this year,” a major security company reports.
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Science editor Alan Boyle’s blog: The sunspot responsible for setting off a colorful round of northern lights got off a doozy of a parting shot, just as it was about to pass around the edge of the sun’s disk.
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Apple became the world’s No. 1 seller/maker of smartphones in 2011′s final quarter, shipping 37 million iPhones and overtaking Samsung for the top spot, according to a recent report.
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Toss on your beer holder sweat shirt, mix up a drink in your football cocktail shaker to pass around, and chill a six-pack in your human organ transplant cooler: It’s time for the Super Bowl!
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AT&T Inc posted a $6.7 billion quarterly loss due to a hefty break-up fee for its failed T-Mobile USA merger and other charges on top of costly subsidies for smartphones such as Apple Inc’s popular iPhone.
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Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.
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Science editor Alan Boyle’s blog: Scientists with NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting mission announce the discovery of 26 distant worlds, nearly doubling the mission’s haul so far.
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We all know Siri can do a lot of impressive things — apparently even order up bags of Doritos and party wear that appears on the spot — and a few other things — as shown in this Super Bowl commercial from the chip-maker.
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FTC head calls out Facebook, Google on Data Privacy Day
Posted on 2012 under Main | No Comment26 Jan
Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill didn’t spare Facebook in her speech opening a forum on Data Privacy Day — even though the event was live-streamed by the social network, in conjunction with the National Cyber Security Counsel.
Via msnbc.com: Technology & Science
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