TECHNO-LOGIC

Top reasons why your friends are de-friending you on social networks

Finding yourself with fewer friends than before on social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Google+? Chances are it’s your offensive or depressing comments that are driving your friends away.

Sony's PlayStation Vita hits stores in Japan

TOKYO (AP) — Sony's long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine hit stores in Japan on Saturday as thousands of game enthusiasts lined up early in the morning to be among the first to buy it....

European Sources: CIA Spy Satellite Blinded by Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- European intelligence sources disclosed that Iran has succeeded in blinding a CIA spy satellite through an indigenous laser technology. ...

Iran may have captured U.S. stealth drone by hacking its GPS

The CIA and the U.S. military may have a serious security flaw to deal with if an Iranian engineer's story proves to be true. Speaking to Christian Science Monitor (CSM), he detailed how a team of specialists from his country hacked into a U.S. spy drone's GPS navigator in order to capture it. That's the same one the U.S. government claimed has landed in Iran's territory in early December due to a malfunction....

A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

WASHINGTON (AP) — As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts....

HP opens webOS mobile software to others

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Co has decided to open its webOS mobile operating system to developers and companies, potentially taking on Google Inc's free Android platform that is popular with handset makers....

Twitter introduces revamped Web site

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Twitter revamped its website on Thursday to make the microblogging service easier to use and to help companies better showcase their brands....

Google+ rolling out facial recognition feature

Google is rolling out a feature that lets members of its online social network automatically find themselves in photos posted by friends....

Firefox's Steady Fall from Grace

Last week for the first time ever we learned that Google Chrome is beating Firefox in total number of users, a decline we see graphed out in today's Chart of the Day. It's not only that Firebox, made by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, lost its No. 2 spot just behind Internet Explorer to a sleek browser from a hot-shot and decidedly for-profit tech outfit like Google. ...

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EU Commissioner calls for new tools for bloggers

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union should help teach bloggers living under oppressive regimes how to communicate freely and avoid detection, and develop technology to help them, the bloc's digital affairs commissioner said Friday....