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On Friday night, Wired technology journalist Mat Honan was brutally hacked. In a chain of events that Honan would unravel in the following days, hackers took advantage of security holes at Amazon and Apple to gain access to his iCloud account. They then took over his Gmail account, remotely wiped all data from his MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad, and took over his Twitter account as well as the Twitter account of his former employer, Gizmodo.

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Jargon-busting mobile industry's buzzwordsupdated: Sat Feb 25 2012 13:15:00

Mobile devices may have placed an amazing array of technology in the palms of our hands, but they've also given us a bamboozling array of buzzwords and acronyms.

CNNMoney: Verizon and Redbox team up to battle Netflixupdated: Mon Feb 06 2012 17:46:00

Verizon and DVD kiosk company Redbox said Monday that they're teaming up on a streaming video partnership, a move that puts Netflix squarely in their crosshairs.

CNNMoney: Your face on Facebook is key to personal infoupdated: Fri Aug 05 2011 07:40:00

In the futuristic movie Minority Report, computers scan faces to display targeted advertisements to individuals when they walk down the street.

CNNMoney: Apple earnings and Zillow IPO charm StockTwitsupdated: Wed Jul 20 2011 13:44:00

With Apple crushing estimates and VMware raising guidance, technology stocks grabbed the attention of investors on Wednesday.

CNNMoney: Dropbox's password nightmare highlights cloud risksupdated: Wed Jun 22 2011 05:49:00

It's the security nightmare scenario: A website stuffed with sensitive documents leaves all of its customer data unprotected and exposed.

iCloud: Revolution or the next MobileMe?updated: Tue Jun 07 2011 11:32:00

It's hard not to leave an Apple press conference without feeling a little star-struck and won over. Company CEO Steve Jobs on Monday walked out to James Brown and then rattled off one announcement after another: new operating systems and, at the peak, the much-awaited iCloud.

Jobs returns to introduce iCloudupdated: Mon Jun 06 2011 18:32:00

Apple CEO Steve Jobs leaves his leave of absence to unveil the iCloud remote file storage service.

Apple unveils 'iCloud' storage, new operating systemsupdated: Mon Jun 06 2011 18:32:00

Apple's Steve Jobs on Monday announced a new service called "iCloud," which lets Apple product owners store documents and music on the Internet instead of on their own computer hard drives or mobile phones.

Learning from Amazon's cloud collapseupdated: Fri Apr 22 2011 11:17:00

Call it Cloudgate, Cloudpocalyse or whatever you'd like, but the extended collapse of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is both a setback for cloud computing and an opportunity for us to figure out how to stop it from happening again.

Greenpeace: Apple has the dirtiest dataupdated: Fri Apr 22 2011 09:40:00

Sure, most of us consider the environmental impact our recycling habits or car's gas mileage may have.

Microsoft's Office 365 available for public testingupdated: Tue Apr 19 2011 23:55:00

Office 365, Microsoft's set of business tools that includes an online-only option, opened up for a public round of beta testing on Tuesday.

CNNMoney: Why people suck at taking care of gadgetsupdated: Fri Apr 15 2011 05:28:00

Almost half of all personal computers in the U.S. are infected with malware -- but a new study shows that 83% of people think their PCs are clean.

CNNMoney: Steve Ballmer pitches cloud computing to energy bizupdated: Thu Mar 10 2011 13:37:00

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer made an impassioned technology pitch to the energy industry Wednesday, arguing that game-like devices and cloud computing can help meet the world's growing need for oil and power.

CNNMoney: IPad cuts 'dramatically' into laptop PC salesupdated: Thu Mar 03 2011 14:01:00

Tablets aren't killing personal computers yet, but they're making consumers think twice before buying a laptop.

CNNMoney: Best business decision of decade: Kindle app?updated: Tue Feb 15 2011 09:41:00

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson called Amazon's Kindle e-reader app the "gutsiest and savviest business decision of the past decade" during a keynote address on Tuesday.

Bringing Washington's technology into 21st centuryupdated: Mon Feb 14 2011 08:35:00

Last month, in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama talked about winning the future. One way in which we can help win the future is by closing the technology gap between the government and private sector -- and leveraging recent advances in information technology to serve the American people better.

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