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Researchers at the University of Illinois claim to have made a breakthrough in phase-change materials (PCM) technology that could lengthen battery life by up to two orders of magnitude, or 100 times The team, led by Professor Eric Pop, used carbon nanotube electrodes, it stated in a paper published in Science Magazine....
The turmoil surrounding Microsoft's efforts in the mobile market last year and the spectacularly rapid changes in this sector has raised concern about the company's hopes of ever catching up to the competition Product miscues and a loss of high-profile personnel have contributed to the perception. Robbie Bach, who headed Microsoft's entertainment d...
More than 70 percent of mobile applications containing open source code fail to comply with basic open source license requirements, OpenLogic claims The company scanned compiled binaries and source code where available for the top paid and free Android and iOS apps in the business and consumer sectors....
Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb," took center stage at Wednesday's AnDevCon keynote address, and LinuxInsider joined about 200 Android developers in a small room at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo, Calif., to listen in Presenters Chet Haase and Romain Guy of Google explained some things about the Honeycomb operating system and demoed some of its featur...
A small conference room at the San Mateo Marriott Hotel in San Mateo, Calif., was packed to overflowing for the keynote speech Tuesday from Christy Wyatt, a Motorola corporate vice president, at AnDevCon 2011 About 300 people squeezed into the room, forcing hotel staff to bring in some chairs and some attendees to liberate seating from nearby rooms...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, which was released last November, packs a hidden punch: The latest version of the operating system pre-bundles patches with the kernel The disguised fixes have shaken up some controversy, but Red Hat contends that the move is aimed at making it more difficult for rivals like CentOS, Oracle and Novell to gobble up Red H...
Google has begun removing the "Droid Dream" malware from devices running Android versions earlier than 2.2.2, also known as "Froyo." About 260,000 owners of Android devices downloaded the malware, Google spokesperson Randall Sarafa told LinuxInsider....
Samsung's invites to a March 22 event at the CTIA Wireless trade show have kicked up rumors that the company plans to launch yet another version of its Galaxy Tab ine, which already has 7-inch and 10.1-inch models. The invitation includes an image of what looks like a tablet device, with the words "What's your Tab life?" followed by the numerals 7...
Late last month, Google deployed a new algorithm intended to improve the quality of its search results, and as some critics feared, the results have in several cases hurt legitimate websites The algorithm was meant to clamp down on website owners gaming the system to raise their standings in search results.
In what could potentially be a huge win for Android, Swedish automaker Saab has selected the operating system as the basis of its IQon in-vehicle infotainment system ...
Google says it has restored email access to some Gmail users who lost it over the weekend "We're still working fast and furious to restore account access," Google spokesperson Jessica Kositz told TechNewsWorld....
Hundreds of thousands of Gmail users woke up Monday to find their emails had vanished and they had lost their contacts Initial estimates put the number of people affected at between 150,000 and 500,000....
Unlike its arch-rival, the Apple iPad, the Motorola Xoom tablet is easy to open up for repairs and upgrades "It appears Motorola built the Xoom to be upgraded, so they have this parting line about an inch from the top on the back that lets you separate the device into two pieces," Miroslav Djuric, who tore down the Xoom for iFixit, told TechNewsWor...
Google on Thursday began using a new algorithm to rid its top search results of what it described as low-quality websites This will reduce the rankings for sites that are low value-add for users, ones that copy content from other websites, or sites that just aren't very useful....
Since it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last January, the Motorola Xoom tablet has been hailed as the strongest challenge yet to Apple's iPad However, it faces two possible obstacles to widespread acceptance: Its price, and its lack of a WiFi-only version....
Enterprises are grappling with the skyrocketing amount of data they have to handle as that data proliferates into the terabyte and petabyte stage Datasets that large are known as "big data" to IT practitioners....
Microsoft released its first software update for Windows Phone 7 this week -- and promptly stubbed its toe The update reportedly caused problems with Omnia 7 and Focus smartphones, both made by Samsung. Some users complained that the update left their phones "bricked," or rendered completely inoperable....
Security guards at the 2011 RSA conference in San Francisco had a little surprise in store for reporters queuing up to attend former President Bill Clinton's keynote speech on Friday ...
Twenty years from now, semiconductor chips will cost a penny apiece and will be in everything -- our clothing, our sunglasses, our contact lenses and even our toilets -- physicist Michio Kaku told an audience Thursday at the RSA 2011 convention They'll revolutionize warfare, manufacturing and the medical field, said Kaku, one of the co-founders of ...
As IBM celebrates its centennial this year, the company is building technologies to take us into the future IBM's Watson computer has pounded its human opponents on the game show "Jeopardy," signaling huge improvements in the development of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing....
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