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Microsoft began its Windows 8 publicity blitz in earnest Wednesday, previewing an operating system that appears to break from the norm in more ways than one It has a tile interface similar to that of Windows Phone 7, it will run on PCs and tablets, and it will support both touchscreen and mouse-and-keyboard interactions....
On June 8, major enterprises with a presence on the Internet such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Akamai and several United States government agencies will be among the organizations providing their content over both IPv4 and IPv6. The occasion: June 8 is World IPv6 Day....
Who Watches the Watchmen, Part 1: A World Gone Mad The United States federal government last month released the country's first comprehensive international strategy for cyberspace....
When the very companies that provide us security technology are themselves either getting hacked or hamstrung with security flaws, how can we be sure that our computers have any protection at all? Within the space of just over a month, security issues hit three major players in the security field -- RSA, McAfee and LastPass....
Microsoft will preview specially made Windows tablet software as soon as this week, Bloomberg recently reported It will showcase the operating system's touchscreen interface running on hardware that uses an Nvidia Tegra chip, according to the report....
PayPal and its parent eBay have filed a lawsuit against Google over mobile payments, in the wake of Google's announcement Thursday of its new e-wallet services The suit personally names two Google executives as defendants. It also names another 50 defendants as "John Does," meaning the plaintiff doesn't presently know their identities....
Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta has discovered a new way for hackers to steal their victims' online credentials -- stealing the session cookies from whatever site a victim is visiting The stolen cookies can then be used to get victims' computers to download malware, forge clicks or send messages, according to Valotta's website....
Google officially unveiled its e-wallet Thursday in a presentation with its partners at an event in New York Google executives demonstrated making purchases and downloading e-coupons with the e-wallet through a Google Nexus S Android smartphone. They added that eventually consumers might even store their drivers' licenses in it....
Microsoft has rolled out app development tools for Mango, the Windows Phone 7 update about which the company released details earlier this week Registered developers can download the Mango Beta Windows Phone Developer Tools from AppHub, Casey McGee, marketing manager for Windows Phone, told TechNewsWorld....
Google will unveil a mobile payment service on Thursday in New York, according to a recent Bloomberg report This will be available on Android smartphones from Sprint Nextel....
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Mango, an upcoming version of its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS Mango will deliver more than 500 new features, focusing around communications, apps and the Internet, Microsoft said....
Reports indicate Amazon may be poised to surge into the tablet PC market In an interview with Consumer Reports, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos uttered what might be construed as a hint about the company's plans....
The Mozilla Foundation launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser Monday -- just eight weeks after it rolled out Firefox 4 This includes a mobile version for Android as well as versions for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops....
AT&T Labs has demonstrated download speeds of nearly 29 Mbps (megabits per second) on an experimental LTE network in Plano, Texas, according to a report in GigaOm Upload speeds reportedly hit 10.4 Mbps in the demo....
Two of the biggest names in the high-tech industry -- Microsoft and Intel -- have begun duking it out over the issue of tablet computers Intel kicked off the row Wednesday when Renee James, head of its software business, mentioned that Microsoft will make multiple versions of Windows 8, four of which will work on processors from ARM. Those four, ac...
Google has begun rolling out a patch to fix a security flaw in versions 2.3.3 and earlier of its Android mobile operating system That flaw affects all Google services using the ClientLogin authentication protocol....
Verizon Wireless announced Thursday that it will release its first Windows 7 smartphone, the HTC Trophy 7, for sale online May 26 ...
Hackers have reportedly hit the PlayStation Network again, sneaking in another attack just days after Sony brought its video game network back online following its weeks-long outage -- which itself resulted from an attack last month. This time, hackers can apparently change users' passwords on the network using only their victims' account email ad...
"Data" -- it's the new buzzword in the open source world, according to Tuesday's keynote speakers at the Open Source Business Conference, being held in San Francisco "The kind of data we're collecting today is way harder to store and process than it used to be," said Mike Olson, president and CEO of Cloudera. This is exacerbated by the explosion in...
A battle to set the model for cloud infrastructure is raging, according to Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat "We're at a fork in the road," Whitehurst told a packed room of more than 200 people at the Open Source Business Conference Monday. "Now is the time that we're going to choose the dominant model for this next paradigm of computing...
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