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IBM is working on a 120-petabyte storage array that will consist of 200,000 disk drives, according to the MIT Technology Review The array is expected to store about 1 trillion files....
Internet radio service Pandora announced its first results as a publicly traded company on Thursday Quarterly revenues totaled US$67 million, 117 percent up year over year (YoY), and listener hours hit a new high of 1.8 billion, up 125 percent YoY, Pandora said....
HP's TouchPad tablet never sold so well as when HP announced last week that it was ceasing production of the device Consumers have cleaned out the market's US$99-per-unit inventory of TouchPads....
There may be life yet for the seemingly defunct HP TouchPad. The company has discontinued its development of all webOS devices, leading retailers to drastically mark down prices on the TouchPads they have in stock. Some buyers have been able to score one for as little as $100 -- that's $400 off the initial asking price when the device entered the market a couple of months ago...
Sony has announced two new additions to its SLT-A family of cameras: the A77 and A65 ...
In the wake of its largest-ever global launch of smartphones earlier this month, Research In Motion on Tuesday announced three new BlackBerry Curve devices ...
This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account ofVanGuard Defense Industries Senior Vice President Richard Garcia A related hacker community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of theBay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Officers' Association....
In a few short weeks, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, will award a US$500,000 grant for a 100-year starship project The grant will be awarded at the 100-Year Starship Study Symposium, which will be held in Orlando, Fla., from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2....
HP on Thursday shook the mobile devices world in announcing that it's killing off its webOS-powered smartphones and TouchPad tablet line The TouchPad reportedly suffered poor sales in its short few weeks on the market, and little hasbeen heard about HP's Palm Pre family of smartphones....
Android device users spend more time on their apps than on the mobile Web, and the top 10 apps account for 43 percent of that time, according to Nielsen When the top 50 Android apps are considered, they account for 61 percent of the time Android device users spend on apps....
Battered by repeated price cuts and reportedly sluggish sales, it looks as if the HP TouchPad tablet is struggling in the market less than two months after it first hit retail shelves in July The Best Buy retail chain sold only 25,000 of the 270,000 units it ordered, AllThingsD has reported....
The U.S. Federal Communications Communication (FCC) reportedly intends to investigate the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) over the San Francisco-area public transportation system's recent shutdown of cellphone service at four stations in the face of a public protest BART cut cell phone services for several hours on Aug. 11 when a public demons...
Two papers on mobile security were presented at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, held in San Francisco recently Both touch on mobile security, a topic that's become increasingly hot lately as security vendors warn that this may well be the year of the mobile hack....
Google announced Monday it intends to purchase Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion, pursuant to regulatory approval That price is a premium of 63 percent over the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday....
Acer on Friday announced the first seven-inch tablets in its Iconia line -- the Iconia Tab A100 series These devices run Android 3.2, a.k.a. "Honeycomb," and are available now in North America....
London's burning, and it may lead to a clampdown on social media in the UK. UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday suggested censoring social media in response to the violence....
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used microwaves to entangle ions in yet another step toward developing quantum computers Quantum entanglement is a feature of quantum physics in which two atoms are linked together in such a way that in order to describe the properties of one, you must describe the properties of...
Could Facebook be the next target in hacker group Anonymous' crosshairs? A tweet from the Twitter handle "OP_Facebook" -- which is labeled "Anonymous" yet had only a single tweet in its history as of mid-day Wednesday -- urged readers to go to a Pirate Bay Web page or watch a YouTube video in which a threat is made to attack Facebook on Nov. 5....
Two major publishers -- the Tribune Co. and the Philadelphia Media Network, or PMN -- plan to offer long-term subscribers free or heavily subsidized tablet readers The Tribune is developing an Android tablet, according to CNN. PMN plans to offer deeply discounted Android tablets together with applications developed in-house....
It's been a mighty interesting week in security Kids learned about cryptography and received a visit from federal authorities at a special session at DefCon, McAfee is duking it out with other security vendors over Operation Shady Rat, facial recognition is stripping away what little is left of our privacy, and Microsoft is offering big bucks for a...
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