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Friday, September 09, 2011 4:52 PM/EST

A Look at the FDNY's Technology Before & After 9/11

By Michelle Abbasciano

When hijacked planes struck the World Trade Centers on September 1st, 2001, panic struck and chaos ensued. Firefighters and rescue workers were able to safely evacuate more than 25,000 people from the buildings, but not before they struggled to...

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:35 PM/EST

3 Tips on Creating the Best, Hacker-Proof Passwords

By Michelle Abbasciano

Think your passwords are fool-proof? Think again. These days, it's all too easy for hackers and the like to crack your password thanks to modern day technology. Sophos Senior Technology Expert Graham Cluely sat down with CNN's Ayesha Durgahee and...

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:34 PM/EST

Skype Deal Puts Microsoft In Line with Google, Apple

By Michelle Abbasciano

Apple and Google better watch their backs. With Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of the world-popular VOIP and video-conferencing program Skype (with a price tag of a whopping $8.5 billion) the software giant is upping their ante and giving Google and Apple...

Wednesday, March 02, 2011 4:10 PM/EST

Why 2011 Will Be the Year of the iPad

By Kristen Hamill

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is on a six-month medical leave, returned to the stage Wednesday to introduce the iPad 2, which is expected to be a hot seller for the company. "We’ve been working on this product for a...

Tuesday, March 01, 2011 4:19 PM/EST

Gmail Bug Wipes Thousands of Accounts Clean

By Kristen Hamill

For many of us, it’s a nightmare scenario; opening up your Gmail to find it completely empty, years of e-mail correspondence gone. For some 150,000 Gmail users over the weekend, this nightmare became a reality. On February 27, Google began...

Monday, February 28, 2011 4:29 PM/EST

Schumer Asks Twitter, Amazon to Beef Up Security

By Kristen Hamill

Senator Chuck Schumer is on a mission against online identity theft. The New York Democrat has called on websites such as Amazon, Yahoo and Twitter to switch to more secure HTTPS web addresses from the HTTP protocol they are currently...

Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:21 PM/EST

Microsoft Windows Phone 7: What Went Wrong?

By Kristen Hamill

Microsoft is attempting to shed some light on the problems it had with its first Windows 7 phone software update. While 90 percent of users who received an update notification were able to install the new software patch successfully, the...

Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:41 PM/EST

New Apple OS X Lion Roars at Developers

By Josh Sturgeon

Developers now have a chance to sample the newest operating system from Apple—OS X Lion. The new OS isn’t scheduled to be released to consumers until this summer, but in the meantime, Apple hopes to get some new applications...

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:07 PM/EST

Spanish Nun Kicked Out of Convent for Using Facebook

By Kristen Hamill

Facebook has a long history of getting people in trouble at work, and apparently nuns are no exception. The Telegraph reports that Sister María Jesús Galán was asked to leave the Santo Domingo el Real convent in Toledo, Spain "after...

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:46 PM/EST

Dell Shells out $940M Cash to Acquire Compellent

By Josh Sturgeon

After getting the green light from Compellent Technologies shareholders, Dell paid out $940m in a cash deal for the virtualized storage system manufacturer. Compellent had become the popular choice for storage after releasing a number of automated data management features,...

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