Google has just opened up a new channel for Android developers to learn about the platform, ask questions, and get updates. The +Android Developers page launched today to help devs stay abreast of changes in the rapidly iterating mobile operating system. “One of my favourite things about Google+ is the quality of conversation around...

Former users of Megaupload have at least two more weeks to worry about what will happen to their data. Despite the government’s indications that the Megaupload user data could be deleted by Thursday, Megaupload’s data hosting services, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, have agreed to preserve users’ files for a minimum...

Once a threat confined to the margins of society, computer hackers have become a scourge of the modern age. Leading the charge is one group, Anonymous, launching online attacks on everything from scientology to credit card companies. As its fame has grown, Anonymous members have increasingly felt the real-world consequences of their...

For those who don’t know, s3rver.exe is the hacker that not long ago breached Sony Pictures, a couple of UFC sites, and countless government websites worldwide. “I started hacking when I was 11. I heard about Anonymous and then I started DDOS’ing sites,” S3rver said. In the course of the two years during which he learned...

The digital arms race is already underway, according to many global experts and their opinions included in McAfee’s global cyberdefence report. At least 57 per cent of the study participants concurred with this point, while another 36 per cent went so far as to argue that cybersecurity is more important than missile defence. For reference,...

  Who knew the ‘D’ in D-Day stood for delete? Make that this Thursday then, when there’s a chance your Megaupload data — legal or no — could be obliterated, according to a letter filed last Friday by the feds. The conundrum’s simple enough: You’re one of the world’s largest file sharing sites, you’ve paid for...

You’ve probably been hearing for a few years now that PC gaming is floating dead in the water, but I’ll be the first to tell you that it isn’t. As a matter of fact, it’s on the rise, and if trends continue, we’ll be seeing it as a dominant platform like it was earlier in the century. That’s a pretty...

Last week Symantec reported 13 potentially malware-carrying Android applications, that it said may make up a family of botnets. Mobile security firm Lookout Mobile, however, is now saying the apps are just an advertising network. “We disagree with the assessment that this is malware, although we do believe that the Apperhand SDK...

And just like that, he’s out. The former head of Palm is leaving HP, and with webOS all but buried, it’s no real surprise. HP’s acquisition of Palm proved disastrous, and after Jon Rubinstein was shifted into a product innovation role after the first major blow to webOS, we sort of figured he wouldn’t hang...