Microsoft issues emergency Windows 10 patch for leaked vulnerability

Microsoft has released an unscheduled patch for a security bug that it accidentally disclosed during the release of its March 2020 patch several days ago. While difficult to exploit, the vulnerability is "critical" because it could allow malicious co...

Amazon’s smart shelves will re-order office supplies automatically

Amazon's Dash buttons were a boon for the forgetful and time-pressed when they launched in 2015. The nifty little device let you re-order household items the moment you realized you'd run out, at the simple touch of, well... a button. But while they...

The PIS2 is a portable PS2 years in the making

The PlayStation 2 has been in the grave for over a decade, but that hasn't kept gamers from tinkering with Sony's iconic console. Reddit user darkwingmod has been working on and off for several years to perfect his vision of a portable PS2, the PIS2....

Microsoft patches Windows XP to fight ‘WannaCrypt’ attacks

Microsoft officially ended its support for most Windows XP computers back in 2014, but today it's delivering one more public patch for the 16-year-old OS. As described in a post on its Windows Security blog, it's taking this "highly unusual" step aft...

Microsoft says it already patched several ‘Shadow Brokers’ NSA leaks

Yesterday, the mysterious "Shadow Brokers" posted some hacking tools for Windows that were allegedly stolen from the NSA. All of them were at least a few years old, but exploited flaws in several versions of the operating system to move across networ...

‘Shadow Brokers’ dump of NSA tools includes new Windows exploits

Earlier this year "The Shadow Brokers" -- an entity claiming to have stolen hacking tools from the NSA then offering them for sale -- seemed to pack up shop, but the group has continued on. Today, it made a new post that contained a number of working...

CES 2014 in Las Vegas Highlights: SimpleScan SP/DP / SimpleScan Connect from Document Capture Technologies, Inc


The much awaited Consumer Electronics Show (CES), also known as International CES is just only a few days away from now. We have been eagerly waiting for this event since last and can’t wait anymore...
    






Egnyte And Synology Bring Cloud Sync To SMBs And The Humble NAS


Given all the attention that cloud-based file sharing and backup services get, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all data is sitting up in the ether somewhere. But when it comes to the small and...
    






The End Of The Line For Freemium File Sharing?


Technology firms looking to enter a market space and unseat incumbent vendors with strong existing relationships to customers have long adopted a bottom-up freemium approach. Essentially the theory...
    






10 Payments And Commerce Predictions For 2014


The following guest post is by Henry Helgeson, the CEO and co-founder of Merchant Warehouse, a recognized leader in payment processing technologies. 2013 was a big year for the mobile commerce space...