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Numerous privacy advocates and two Congressmen have made clear their concerns over the Facebook changes that the company announced on Sept. 22. One coalition in particular on Thursday officially asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether Facebook was set up so that users were sharing more information than they realized. A detailed letter [...]

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THE MAJORITY of US smartphone sales are now Android devices, according to market watcher Nielsen. Google’s Android already had 43 per cent of the market according to Nielsen, however when it looked at those consumers who bought smartphones in the last three months, 56 per cent had opted for an Android handset. Apple’s share of [...]

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A couple years ago, a Microsoft researcher named Gordon Bell embarked on a personal experiment: He would wear a video camera around his neck all the time and keep this “life recorder” always turned on, so it would record everything he did. It was like an external memory drive for his brain, he wrote in [...]

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GENEVA – Leading scientists said on Friday the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos if independently confirmed.   Jeff Forshaw, a professor of particle physics at Britain’s Manchester University, told Reuters the results if confirmed would mean it would [...]

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The iPod once acounted for as much as 60 percent of Apple’s revenues. Rumors have it that Apple’s iPod powerhouse money making device which previously accounted for as much as 60 percent of Apple’s revenue now only makes up 6 percent of their revenue. Does this mean that Apple is planning to kill off the [...]

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And you thought lightning strikes were rare.   A defunct NASA satellite is set to plunge to Earth, with a 1-in-3,200 chance that someone could get hurt, according to the space agency. That has many wondering: What’s it like to get hit with a piece of space junk? Lottie Williams — perhaps the only person [...]

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Attacks are already seen in the wild SOFTWARE MAKER ADOBE has released a security update for Flash Player in order to address several critical vulnerabilities, including one that is being exploited in the wild. The Flash Player 10.3.183.10 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and Flash Player 10.3.186.7 for Android, contain patches for six security flaws. [...]

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Maybe it’s time for Facebook to finally roll out that “dislike” button. Facebook is getting an earful about changes it made to the News Feed right before its annual developers conference Thursday. Of course, anytime the social networking site makes changes, users revolt at audible levels. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking service [...]

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However, there’s a major catch when it comes to AT&T’s win PCWorld took AT&T Inc.’s (T) new LTE network out for a spin. They decided to take the company’s LTE network for a spin in Houston, Texas to test it speeds. Comparing the AT&T 4G to Verizon Communications Inc.’s (VZ) own 4G offerings, they found [...]

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