Yahoo Does A Google, Will Use Only Encrypted HTTPS

In view of Edward Snowden's shocking revelations disclosing classified documents regarding global surveillance by the US National Security Agency, Yahoo has now gone up to shore up its security efforts. Yahoo will now encrypt all information within the confines of its data centers while simultaneously giving users the option to use encryption for all of its online services.

Google Glass review: Uneasy first steps

Shaped like a lopsided headband, Google Glass is an unassuming piece of technology when you're holding it in your hands. You feel as if you can almost break it, testing its flexibility. Putting it on, though, is another story.

Once you do, this Internet-connected eyewear takes on a life of its own. You become "The Person Wearing Google Glass" and all the assumptions that brings with it -about your wealth, boorishness or curiosity. Such is the fate of early adopters of new technologies, whether it's the Sony Walkman, the first iPod with its conspicuous white earbuds, or the Segway scooter. Google calls the people who wear Glass "explorers," because the device is not yet available to the general public.

IDF14 has seen Foxconn reveal some early renders of the USB 3.1 architecture implementation, and its accompanied USB 3.1 Type-C connecter cable.

Said to be smaller than Micro-USB, the USB 3.1 port allows the Type-C connector to be reversible in design, so that users don't have to worry about the cable's orientation while plugging it into the port.

Satya Nadella's big move: Microsoft to offer Windows Phone for free

Microsoft Corp is to give away its Windows operating system to makers of smartphones and small tablets for consumers as it seeks to make more of an impact on those fast-growing markets and counter the massive success of Google Inc's free Android platform.

Microsoft's move, announced at its annual developers conference in San Francisco, is an attempt to broaden the small user base of mobile versions of Windows, in the hope that more customers will end up using Microsoft's money-making, cloud-based services such as Skype and Office.

Agilent Technologies Expands World’s Most Flexible PNA-X Network Analyzer For Active Device Test With 8.5-GHz Model

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today expanded the world’s most flexible PNA-X family of network analyzers with an 8.5 GHz model that more economically supports lower-frequency devices used in wireless communication applications (e.g., handsets, base stations, WLAN and other mobile communication devices). 

Agilent’s award-winning PNA-X nonlinear vector network analyzer (NVNA) has also been expanded to include an 8.5 GHz model. The new solutions provide engineers developing and manufacturing active devices the flexibility to select just the right frequency required for their specific application.

It's Curtains Down For Dropbox Competitor Ubuntu One

Even as Canonical goes all out to focus all its efforts on its operating system, the first in line to bear the axe in the process is Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One. Canonical has clearly stuck to the theory of survival of the fittest with the move that will also see the end of its streaming music service.

Arbor Networks Unique Global Attack Intelligence Integrated Into Local Protection

  Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of DDoS and advanced threat protection solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, announced today a new reputation-based threat feed as part of its ATLAS® Intelligence Feed (AIF) service. AIF is a research-driven feed of security policies designed to update Arbor’s Pravail products quickly and accurately by identifying threats based on real-world attack activity, reputation and behaviour