- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
The total value of mobile payments of all types worldwide will surge from US$240 billion this year to $670 billion by 2015, Juniper Research predicts This covers mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and near field communications (NFC) transactions....
Shortly after launching the beta of its Google+ social network last week, Google slammed the shutters down. Like many new Google offerings, Google+ is, for the time being, accessible only by invitation. But after distributing invites rather liberally for a day or so, Google pulled back, citing "insane demand." It's unclear when Google will kick its...
This story was originally published on April 19, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Computer software requires an enormous amount of support. That fact has enriched companies such as Oracle and SAP, which levy annual support fees of about 20 percent of the sale prices of their applications....
Google is making over the interface on its Gmail email service as part of a larger overhaul of the look and feel of all its offerings. The renovation project will be ongoing over the next several months, according to Chris Wiggins, creative director of digital at Google ...
A new malware package is running wild on the Internet, according to Kaspersky Labs, and its creators are attempting to create an indestructible herd of zombified machines The botnet has been dubbed "TDL-4," which Kaspersky describes as "the most sophisticated threat today."
HP will release the TouchPad in select markets Friday, putting the webOS mobile operating system the company acquired when it purchased Palm into an HP-branded tablet ...
Microsoft has applied for a patent on technology that may let its user secretly intercept Voice over IP (VoIP) communications, amend the content and store it The application was filed in December 2009 and was recently made public....
Between the repeated attacks on the United States government's IT infrastructure by foreign hackers and incursions by LulzSec, a hacker community whose members wandered in and out of government cybersystems before publicly disbanding this week, it's not difficult to conclude that the U.S.'s federal IT infrastructure is the cybersecurity equivalent of Swiss cheese...
Microsoft on Tuesday launched its newest cloud service, Office 365, in 40 markets. The service consists of online versions of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Lync Pricing runs from US$2 to $11 per user per month....
Microsoft scored a victory Monday when defense contractor General Dynamics' Itronix division agreed to pay it licensing fees for using the Android operating system Itronix makes rugged mobile computers for military, law enforcement, first responder and field service use....
The hacker group LulzSec has apparently decided to shut down operations and sail off into the sunset Fellow hacker community Anonymous, with which LulzSec has teamed up, may take up where LulzSec left off....
A recently published University of Exeter paper brings the possibility of achieving brain-like computing one step closer The paper, published in Advanced Materials, states the result of a study that demonstrated for the first time the ability to simultaneously perform information and storage tasks using phase-change materials (PCMs)....
Hacker community LulzSec has revealed it's broken into the Arizona law enforcement agency's servers and released hundreds of sensitive documents on the Internet "We are targeting AZDPS [the Arizona Department of Public Safety] specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona," LulzSec s...
Mozilla released Firefox 5 earlier this week, just three months after rolling out Firefox 4 and a month after it released version 5 in beta Version 5 has "more than 1,000 improvements," which include the "Do Not Track" privacy feature and support for the CSS Animations standard, among other things....
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Thursday showed off the company's first Windows Phone 7 device in what he described as a "secret" briefing to a room full of journalists The announcement comes hard on the heels of the company's Wednesday reveal of the N9, a new Nokia smartphone running the MeeGo mobile OS....
Sony Ericsson announced two new Android smartphones Wednesday: the Xperia Ray and the Xperia Active Both run Android 2.3, aka "Gingerbread," and use the Mobile Bravia Engine....
Startup company Lytro has announced what it calls the first light field camera for everyone This will let users take photographs, then select the focal point later....
Nokia has unveiled the first smartphone to run the MeeGo operating system: the Nokia N9 ...
Two ad hoc hacker communities often in the headlines of late -- LulzSec and Anonymous -- announced on Monday they intend to team up to attack government websites worldwide In its "Operation Anti-Security" manifesto, LulzSec said the top priority of this operation is "to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools an...
The hacker community appears to be divided over a break-in suffered last week by Sega's database The hack reportedly led to the theft of the emails, addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of about 1.3 million members of the Sega Pass online network....
Loading ...
