MacKeeper exposes personal data of 13M users

From CNET: The makers of MacKeeper, a suite of software that claims to make Macs more secure and stable, is cleaning up after a breach exposed the personal information for millions of its users.

Kromtech, which makes the software, acknowledged Monday that a hole in its security exposed the...

​Microsoft extends olive branch after OneDrive cloud storage storm

From CNET: Microsoft has back-pedalled on cuts it made to OneDrive cloud storage limits last month, giving back some of the data allowances it was set to take away and apologising for putting the blame on users for excessive use.

Customers will still need to opt-in to keep their bonus storage...

Apple reportedly pushing iPhone 6s through popup App Store ads

From PC World: Popup ads are, for better or worse, a fact of life on the Internet. They are not, however, something you'd expect to see in the App Store app for iOS. But as 9to5Mac reported late last week, Apple is apparently using a popup ad in the App Store to promote the iPhone 6s to owners of...

Yahoo adds Gmail support to Mail app

From ComputerWorld: Yahoo is looking to pull a whole lot of new users into its new Yahoo Mail app by adding support for Google's popular Gmail.

Yahoo, which has been in turmoil lately, launched its Mail app this past October, adding support for email services like Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail...

V-MODA Crossfade Wireless Review (Page 1 of 4)

A story was told of a bunch of English scientists digging down a kilometer into the ground, and found traces of copper wires a thousand years old. For this, they came to the conclusion their ancestors had a telephone network a millennium ago. In response to that, Scottish scientists, not to be outdone by their English counterparts, dug two kilometers down, and found traces of fiber optic cables dating back to the time of Jesus. As such, the...

Scythe Ninja 4 Review (Page 1 of 4)

Winter in Calgary is very much like a roller coaster. The temperatures seem to rise or fall randomly, and it is possible to go from temperatures well below zero to temperatures above zero in one day. For me, this is the most frustrating part of winter, since it feels like it cannot decide if it wants to be warm or cold -- much like choosing which restaurant to go to for dinner. I have to wake up early in the morning, scrape the ice off of my car...

Google's cloud benchmarking tool ups its game

From InfoWorld: Google's PerfKit toolset for benchmarking cloud environments was originally released earlier this year in a pre-1.0 version. Today, it's officially been bumped to a 1.0 release, with expanded support for various cloud providers and automation of 26 different benchmarks, up from the...

Microsoft's Cortana digital assistant launches on iPhone and Android

From InfoWorld: After a brief beta testing period, Microsoft's Cortana assistant is available for everyone on the iPhone and Android phones.

Though Cortana lacks the deep operating system hooks of Android's Google Now and iOS's Siri, it could still be a useful companion for users of Windows 10 PCs...

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