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It was a generally interesting day of keynote speeches at the Web 2.0 conference Wednesday, although a couple of the presentations were real mind-benders One keynote laid out how developers can use core concepts of gaming apps to create better products....
At first glance, the Web 2.0 conference, being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, appears tailor-made for today's audience Keynotes are kept short -- about 20 minutes each -- and follow each other in rapid-fire succession. They're posted on the Web. The audience is mainly young and armed with multiple mobile devices -- several had smartph...
Amazon on Tuesday announced a triple-play entry into the cloud-based music storage field The online retail giant's trifecta consists of Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Amazon Cloud Player for Android....
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed what it describes as the first practical artificial leaf The device, made from silicon, electronics and catalysts, is the same size and shape as a playing card, but thinner....
Asus on Friday announced the first shipments of its Eee Pad Transformer, which are directed to Taiwan ...
What is the temperature of the sun? What is free will? Who's in charge here, anyway? These questions and more -- any question one could possibly imagine, really -- are what Facebook's Questions feature is for. The social network updated Questions Thursday, throwing the general inquiry forum open to the public....
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth among vendors of mobile devices and computers since Apple launched the first iPad in 2010 Competitors frantically began announcing plans to bring out their own tablets, most of them running on Google's Android operating system....
Oracle threw a punch that left HP's knees wobbling with the announcement that it's going to stop developing software to run on Intel's Itanium processor family Intel's future roadmap focuses on x86 processors, Oracle explained....
Microsoft has released the so-called NoDo update, fulfilling a pledge it made earlier to do so by late March The ill-fated update had been originally scheduled for rollout during the first week of March. The release was put off after Microsoft ran into problems with its first update in February....
Winning regulatory approval may be a difficult battle for AT&T in its bid to buy up wireless rival T-Mobile. However, if it does indeed gain permission to purchase its GSM wireless competitor, the technological challenges could prove to be much less of a headache AT&T will be able to transition T-Mobile USA's networks into its own fairly easily, sh...
Adobe announced Monday that its Flash Player 10.2 update is now available on Android Market The update's a production release for Android 2.2 and 2.3 but an initial beta release for Android 3.0.1....
Sony is readying a hybrid Vaio notebook with a docking system that augments its hardware, as well as another Vaio sporting Chrome OS, according to a report in SonyInsider. The so-called hybrid notebook will feature the communications technology Apple introduced as "Thunderbolt" recently in its MacBook Pro notebooks, the report stated....
Lawyers for George Hotz, whom Sony is suing for publishing codes used to jailbreak PlayStation 3s, claim the Japanese electronics giant has misled the court Sony Computer Entertainment America, based in California, is suing Hotz for publishing a secret encryption key and software tools that allow PS3 owners gain deep control of the video game conso...
Hackers have broken into and stolen information from RSA's systems, a move that may have seriously reduced the security firm's street cred RSA is the sponsor of a major security conference bearing its name. The gathering attracts the creme de la creme of the IT industry as well as government bigwigs such as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense...
As a concept, the notion of online privacy seems to rank right up there with the Tooth Fairy Facebook has declared that all posts by members on their walls are public property; Google keeps getting into trouble with various governments over the data its Street View cars collect; and you can forget about your Tweets being private -- the Library of C...
The browser in Google's Android mobile operating system is more than 50 percent faster than the browser found in Apple's iOS, according to company Blaze.io Blaze tested the embedded browsers in Android 2.3 (aka "Gingerbread") and iOS 4.3. These were WebView and UIWebView, respectively....
The audience at a panel discussing challenges and opportunities from a global IT security perspective Wednesday at the IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum was nodding off until question time, when Jody Westby blasted the panelists She accused them of not sticking to the topic and suggested they focus more on the issues....
Cloud computing, mobile computing and social networking are reshaping the face of the information security industry, Sarah Friar, managing director at Goldman Sachs, said Wednesday "I believe the cloud shift we're seeing is similar to what we saw in the shift from mainframe to client/server," Friar told attendees at ITSEF 2011, the fifth annual IT ...
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that its first 4G smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt, will hit retail shelves Thursday ...
Once again, Microsoft has put off the unfortunately named "NoDo" update for its Windows Phone 7 operating system This time, the company's Windows Phone blog said the update, which CEO Steve Ballmer had previously stated would be out during the first week of March, will be available in the later part of the month....
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