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Google has premiered the first version of its Google Wallet app, officially kicking off the mobile phone payment system it first announced earlier this year Google also announced that Visa, Discover and American Express have made the first move toward getting on board with Google Wallet. MasterCard is already a partner....
In the wake of repeated hacker attacks on defense contractors in the United States comes news that the systems of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's biggest defense contractor, have been breached Mitsubishi's submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component factories were reportedly targeted by the attackers....
A team of players of an online game called "Foldit" took three weeks to solve a problem in AIDS research that has puzzled scientists for years The problem was to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV (Mason-Pfizer monkey) retroviral protease....
Struggling through a welter of controversy, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration this week announced plans for a new deep space exploration program At the heart of theSpace Launch System is development of an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will enable human exploration in space....
Researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a way to extend the battery life of tablets, smartphones and other devices that use WiFi Kang Shin, a professor of computer science and engineering, and Xinyu Zhang, a doctoral student, have developed E-MiLi, a power management method that could cut energy consumption by about 44 percent f...
Adobe is putting on a brave face in the wake of Microsoft's announcement Tuesday that the Metro version of Internet Explorer in Windows 8 -- the one intended for tablets -- will eschew plug-ins like Flash and instead use HTML 5 "We are excited about the innovation and opportunities that are available to our customers and Adobe as the Web and platfo...
Over half a million copies of the developer preview of Windows 8 have been downloaded, according to Microsoft, giving app makers around the world a sample of the software maker's upcoming operating system Those developers, though, may have to go through a learning curve if they want to build Windows 8 tablet apps....
In an effort to carve out a niche in the burgeoning mobile market, Intel has partnered with Google to optimize future versions of the latter's Android mobile operating system for Intel's Atom line of chips The announcement was made by Andy Rubin, Android head honcho and Google senior vice president, on Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum, which ru...
Microsoft inched further toward the tablet world Tuesday by revealing a slew of new details about its upcoming Windows 8 operating system at its Build developers conference, being held in Anaheim, Calif., through Friday ...
AMD announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded the Guinness World Record for computer processor speed for an overclocked version of its upcoming eight-core FX desktop processor This CPU hit a top speed of 8.429 GHz with the help of specialist teams, as well as a heavy dose of liquid nitrogen and helium for cooling....
AT&T announced on Monday that it would add three new 4G smartphones running Windows Phone 7.5, aka "Mango," in the fourth quarter It also pledged to update existing WinPho7 devices to Mango this fall....
H.R. 1981, a U.S. federal bill which apparently seeks to combat child pornography, has stirred up opposition from various lawmakers as well as civil rights groups The proposed law, introduced in May and now under consideration in Congress, is the joint creation of Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Debbie Wass...
It's been another wild and crazy week for the security community Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday....
HTC has shown off its first two smartphones running Mango, Microsoft's upcoming update for its Windows Phone mobile operating system The new devices, the Titan and the Radar, are being shown to some consumers in London, Paris, Madrid and Berlin....
The HP TouchPad's demise and semi-resurrection seems to have lent new strength to rumors that Amazon is working on its own tablet Some rumors hold that Amazon will offer one tablet; others contend it will offer two. The speculation is that Amazon will sell the hardware at a loss and make up for that through selling content, which it has in abundanc...
The Mozilla Foundation is enhancing the tablet version of its Firefox browser It's leveraging Android Honeycomb but retaining familiar visual elements of Firefox such as the signature big back button and distinctive tab shape, according to a blog post by Ian Barlow, who works on Mozilla's mobile user experience team....
Samsung Telecommunications America has announced it will launch its latest Android smartphone, the Galaxy S II, on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile in the U.S. this fall ...
Speculation about what features Windows 8 will include is sizzling as Microsoft continues to remain tight-lipped about details of the new operating system However, Redmond has talked to some extent about the upcoming OS' handling of Explorer, the Windows file management system....
If you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation This past week brings news that the Apache Web server -- the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites -- has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort....
VMware made a number of announcements at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas on Monday. Among its new projects is a global cloud offering. This is, so to speak, a network of clouds from multiple services in various countries. Customers will work with their local vCloud Datacenter service provider to get into the global cloud....
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