One of the most common tasks I face is copying profile data among computers, in both Windows and Linux. And as you would expect, both operating systems handle the profile data very differently. In GNU ...

India's patent office has granted a patent to Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook for an invention relating to a method for providing a third party the access to user-profile data maintained by the social ...

User-profile management can be especially challenging for Windows managers. The default behavior of Windows is to store profiles locally on the user's computer. But there are a couple of problems with ...

A user enumeration technique discovered by security researcher Carlo Di Dato demonstrates how Gravatar can be abused for mass data collection of its profiles by web crawlers and bots. Gravatar is an ...

Sharing your PC with other members in the house makes it obvious to have separate user accounts. The good thing is you don’t need a Microsoft account to add a new user profile in Windows. Now if you ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be ...