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If you had to track down fugitives hidden in five cities around the world, would one day and a $5,000 reward be enough to succeed?CNET From ACM News | March 27, 2012
Android is gradually slipping down mobile programmers' priority list, with Web apps stepping in as an answer to development difficulties, according to a recent...CNet From ACM TechNews | March 26, 2012
It's been an action-packed two years since Jeff Jaffe took over as the World Wide Web Consortium's chief executive, but more action is the order of the day at...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
Every year, security vendors gather at the RSA conference here to reaffirm their commitment to fencing out hackers and keeping data safe. And every year, corporate...CNET From ACM News | March 6, 2012
Recent weeks have seen a lot of (overdue) talk about privacy and technology. There was theflap over Path and other mobile apps uploading your phone's address books...CNET From ACM News | March 1, 2012
Microsoft, Google, and Netflix recently proposed a standard for copy-protected Web video, but HTML editor Ian Hickson calls it impractical and unethical. CNet From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2012
With just 2% of the Smithsonian's archive of 137 million items available to the public at any one time, an effort is under way at the world's largest museum and...CNET From ACM News | February 24, 2012
When it launched in 2010, NuCaptcha touted its proprietary technology as being able to "provide the highest level of security available" by using video streams...CNET From ACM News | February 22, 2012
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...CNET From ACM Careers | February 17, 2012
The dominance of Apple and Google mobile browsers is leading to a situation that is even worse for Web programming than the former dominance of Internet Explorer...CNet From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2012
Google is planning to rewrite its privacy policy to grant it explicit rights to "combine personal information" across multiple products and services, the company...CNET From ACM News | January 25, 2012
Patents were a hot-button issue in 2011, so there's no wonder so many companies were filling their portfolios with new intellectual property all year.CNET From ACM News | January 13, 2012
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf has sent a letter to U.S. House Judiciary chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), adding his voice to those of many other...CNet From ACM News | December 16, 2011
Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an...CNET From ACM News | December 15, 2011
As robots seek to mimic humans' ability to see and hear, they have a secret weapon in Microsoft's Kinect game motion-sensing controller.CNET From ACM News | December 7, 2011
A team of Stanford University researchers has bad news to report about Captchas, those often unreadable, always annoying distorted letters that you're required...CNET From ACM News | November 3, 2011