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Car drivers may imagine they have greater privacy than public transport users, but that isn't necessarily the case in modern, connected cars, European motoring organizations warned this week.

Users of Dell Windows-based laptops, desktops, tablets and other devices that were bought before August should check if their systems have the self-signed eDellRoot certificate that can compromise their private communications.

Useful cloud

Online file services that sync with your Mac have been around for some time, and provide you with valuable storage, collaboration and more. I recommend Dropbox and Box.

Notes on the go

Evernote is an essential companion to anyone researching online. Use it to file clippings, notes and loads of other information in your online scrapbook, which you can access anywhere.

Contacts

Apple’s Contacts application is pretty good and integrates well with the rest of the OS... Читать дальше...

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a tiny ARM computer for five bucks. Now there’s a thing to be thankful for, in this world of the Internet of Things.

Help desk gets a call from a panicky remote user who says her task bar is gone and she can't launch any of her programs to work, according to a pilot fish on the scene.

The technology gifts you won't find simply anywhere

The gift-giving holidays are fast approaching, and geeks across the world are dreaming about techno toys. In the spirit of spreading holiday cheer of the gadget variety, InfoWorld presents our picks for the coolest gadgets for the gift-giving season tailor-made for that special geek in your life.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: at just $5 its latest creation is as cheap is it can make a computer.

The Mozilla Foundation is getting most of its revenue from Yahoo, Yandex and Baidu after the end of its large deal with Google last year.