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Popular firewall technology designed to boost security on cellular networks can backfire, unwittingly revealing data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study shows.

Researchers have discovered and neutralized a serious vulnerability present in all versions of Android, the popular operating system developed by Google specifically for smartphones and tablet computers. The vulnerability could have been easily exploited by malicious software applications, with the effect of making devices based on Google's operating system currently on the market completely unusable.

Can anyone turn around HP or is it all looking a bit like too little too late?

Microsoft has come a long way in its acceptance of open source. And its motto doesn't seem to be (this time) to embrace and extinguish.

China's Huawei files a complaint against InterDigital, accusing the US firm of abusing its position and charging ''exploitative'' fees for mobile patents.

Intel, in partnership with Imperial university and University College, will use London as a lab for testing tech for future cities.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. - Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! - Richard P. Feynman