CloudFlare launches bug bounty program

From InfoWorld: CloudFlare started a bug bounty program on Monday, joining a host of companies that are turning to independent security researchers to spot bugs in their network.

The San Francisco-based company runs a widely used global content delivery network that keeps copies of websites in...

LG's G Watch will be water resistant and always on

From TechHive: LG Electronics has revealed that its upcoming smartwatch G Watch will be water resistant and have an always-on display.

When LG announced the Android Wear-based device last month, hardware details were sparse. But in a bid to build hype ahead of the launch later this year, the...

Netflix vs. the Comcast merger: Nothing to lose

From CNET: Netflix is showing once again that it is no friend to Comcast.

The Los Gatos, Calif., streaming video service on Monday warned that the proposed $45.2 billion merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable would create a worrisome concentration of broadband control, opposition that makes...

Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw

From InfoWorld: The world's top 1,000 websites have been patched to protect their servers against the "Heartbleed" exploit, but up to 2% of the top million were still vulnerable as of last week, according to a California security firm.

On Thursday, Menifee, Calif.-based Sucuri Security scanned the...

AMD steers clear of low-cost tablet market

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices doesn’t want its chips in low-priced tablets, and is eager to avoid a battle with Intel or ARM, whose chips have driven tablet prices down to under $100.

Growth in the tablet market is driven by low-end devices and Android, but AMD’s tablet strategy is driven...

Apple’s sales for last quarter expected to be flat

From CNET: Apple is unlikely to show any sales growth when it reports second-quarter results on Wednesday. At least, that's the take from a collection of 37 different analysts.

Polling analysts for their predictions on Apple's second fiscal quarter, which ended in March, Fortune found an average...

Google Knocked by Analysts, But Shows Strokes of Brilliance in Q1 2014

From DailyTech: Excluding its soon-to-be-departed money-losing smartphone brand -- Motorola Mobility -- Google Inc. (GOOG) posted a net profit of $3.45B USD (GAAP), up from $3.35B USD in Q1 2013. For the quarter Google pulled in revenue of $15.42B USD -- roughly $100M USD less than the $15.54 that...

Kingston SDXC UHS-I U3 64GB Review

Are numbers important? The way I see it, sometimes, you will just have to go and ask her for it assertively. As Wayne Gretzky once said, "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take." No wait... that is not the number I am talking about. So let's start this paragraph over again. Are numbers important? Of course they are. At the same time, we must understand numbers do not necessarily tell the whole story. Remember when people thought...

IBM profit falls 21 percent on weak hardware sales, workforce writeoffs

From InfoWorld: Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier. Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to $22.5 billion.

The quarterly results include an $870 million write-off for...

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