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Heroku was alerted to a security vulnerability that let anyone change an account's password and take over the account. The company reacted quickly, pushing out a fix the next day.

RIM's first-year BlackBerry 10 strategy means you'll be seeing not just two BB 10 phones this year, but a half dozen of them.

Imagine being able to mute your TV by shushing it or pausing a video simply by getting up. If Cube26 has its way, those types of interactions will come to TVs and smartphones in the near future.

The Machine Perception Lab unveils its latest project, an android infant that replicates real human facial expressions.

Over the Christmas holidays, Google gave Planet Earth a $200 million gift, with nice little green bow wrapped on top. Google announced today that it closed an investment in Spinning Spur Wind Project, a west Texas wind f...

SpaceX joined NASA today to talk about what it's doing in 2013 to get humans in space with commercial space launches. At a joint press conference with NASA and other commercial crew development (CCDev) participants today...

We take a close look at the Pebble creator's favorite smartwatch features.

Your living room TV has yet another suitor.

Jen-Hsun Huang explains the thinking by Nvidia's bold new bet on Android mobile gaming and cloud games.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial contracts -- and years of legislation -- are finally coming to fruition.

Facebook's stock hasn't passed $30 a share since July. Today, however, it hit the high after inviting press to "see what we're building" at an event on January 15.

RoomHunt integrates a rental directory with social networks to simplify the process of finding a place to live and roommates to live with.

It's a good day for wireless service provider Clearwire, which currently has two lucrative offers that could make its shareholders very happy.

On December 21 last year, Facebook quietly added the ability to segment fans by region. Which means that social media monitoring companies are now finding all kinds of juicy oddities in fan counts of major brands.

Guest Post Aereo shows the kind of chutzpah that only small innovators can. It is pushing for a broad interpretation of fair use rights, an interpretation that is relevant to the 21st century.

Streaming movie service Redbox Instant by Verizon will fully launch to the public before the end of the first quarter, the venture's CEO said today at a CES 2013 breakfast.

A number of denial of service attacks have taken down the website of U.S. banks since September. While some have come forward claiming responsibility, other believe Iran may be behind the attacks.

In my last blog , I shared excerpts from a fascinating conversation I had with Promod Haque, General Partner of Norwest Venture Partners. Promod talked about the industries currently benefiting from today?s tech innovati...

The new Exynos 5 Octa will go up against new chips from Nvidia and Qualcomm.

It's been a long road for the Pebble team, despite some initial success.

Verizon has just filed some federal paperwork claiming a whopping 9.8 million phone activations in the final three months of 2012. The form in question, a sexy 8-K filed with the SEC yesterday, gives notice of announceme...

Guest Post If you've ever thought about paying for inauthentic endorsements like this, you better pump the breaks because third party review sites are now making it as obvious as Snooki's spray tan that you've invested i...