Federak watchdogs this week issued a report on what information is available to help government agencies and public sector companies bulk up their cybersecurity efforts.
The laptop that preceded the Ultrabook craze is back, sleeker than ever.
Intel is taking on the burgeoning tablet market by working on hybrid ultrabooks that look and act like both laptops and tablets.
Sharp's new 80-inch touchscreen display turns a meeting into a truly interactive event, but don't ditch your projector or analog whiteboard just yet.
Samsung announces U.S. availability for its high-resolution Galaxy Tab 7.7.
Samsung has unveiled three new cameras and a camcorder with built-in wireless options for uploading media to the Web and sharing content with mobile devices.
The two phones will be among the first devices to run on Sprint's new 4G LTE network, set to launch mid-year.
Following a 19-camera announcement a few days ago, Fujifilm put the cherry on top of its CES sundae with a new interchangeable-lens X-series camera, the X-Pro 1.
Lenovo has its 16GB, 7-inch IdeaPad A1 tablet on sale for $249, with free shipping.
Vizio CTO Matt McRae and PCWorld Senior Editor Jason Cross discuss Vizio's new line of unibody laptops and the future of the laptop industry at CES 2012.
AT&T and Nokia confirmed that a yet-to-be-revealed Windows Phone is coming this year.
The $50 no-frills phone is designed for situations where your primary mobile phone has either lost its charge or isn't available.
Sprint Nextel's first three devices for its coming LTE network will be the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and LG Viper smartphones and a Sierra Wireless hotspot that will...
This giant multitouch display can follow hundreds of hands and fingers are doing to it at the same time--and it may be coming to a museum near you.
As the TV manufacturer makes its first foray into the desktops space, its hardware doesn’t fail to impress.
Here is a preview of CES 2012 as it kicks off this week in Las Vegas. We're expecting to hear from all the major vendors, including Microsoft, whose appearance will be its last. Will we see Bill Gates speak at the keynote? Also: CES is calling 2012 the Year of the Interface and explains why.
Sharp flaunted a massive HDTV with a smart interface for accessing Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, and YouTube. And it went small, showing off its answer to mobile TV.
The HTC Titan 2 has a 16-megapixel camera, LTE connectivity, and runs the latest version of Windows Phone.
Intel is pushing hard on the ultrabooks category, hoping to capture a little bit of the MacBook Air's glory.
After going hands-on with the upcoming Vizio laptops, and speaking about them with CTO Matt McRae, I have to admit: I'm impressed.
This extended battery comes in two pieces, allowing you to keep a lightweight protective shell on your iPhone 4 or 4S all the time and keep the weight and bulk of the battery out of your pocket until you need the extra power.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at AT&T's Developer Summit Monday at CES.
Xerox announced a new battery powered mobile scanner that will send JPG or PDF files to computer, phones, tablets, or the cloud over Wi-Fi.
There’s something for everyone in AT&T’s new crop of fast LTE 4G devices.
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Parrot introduces three new in-vehicle infotainment systems, opens up platform to third-party developers. Is your car the biggest piece of tech you own?
The Sony PlayStation Vita is the first handheld gaming device tied to a carrier.
Vizio officially branched out into the PC market, with announcements of its new all-in-one PC and two new laptops.
Future ultrabook laptops will have touchscreens, voice recognition, longer battery life and lower prices, an Intel executive said Monday.
Since last August, the free operating system has climbed to a new high of 1.41 percent, Net Applications reports.
The Samsung Galaxy Note is a tablet-phone hybrid with a stylus for taking notes, drawing pictures and editing images.
Empowering users with do-it-yourself tools is all the rage in IT these days. What could possibly go wrong?
Many mobile Internet users will turn to PCs for a better experience, Dell says.
LG unleashes an CES lineup including ultrathin OLED TV, 4G Android phone, and a new crop of smart TVs.
Chinese device manufacturer Huawei declared Monday that it would begin an offensive into the high-end market for mobile phones, unveiling at the Consumer...
AT&T became the first U.S. telecom service provider to join OpenStack, the organization that has developed an open-source cloud software stack.
Samsung on Sunday showed a device that converts standard televisions into smart TVs, providing high-definition Internet access, Skype video conferencing and a...
Anticipating a growing market for smart television sets, Canonical will be demonstrating a version of its popular Ubuntu Linux OS that can be used for running...
AT&T is hoping to encourage developers to use HTML 5 with the release of a new API platform.
Despite all those "death to passwords" chants, some say it's still a solid form of authentication -- when users aren't being stupid about theirs.
The iPhone is by far the smartphone most in demand among 4,000 North American consumers, but Samsung, Apple's frequent rival in court, is coming on strong, according to
A robot with a tail has emerged, thanks to an interesting discovery in lizards.
Huawei on Monday announced two new smartphones running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, one of which the company claims is the 'world's slimmest smartphone.'
Canon's new line of consumer camcorders seeks to enable easy shooting and online posting of better video faster for the YouTube and Facebook crowds.
The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further boosting...
At about 6.8 millimeters thick, Huawei Technologies' Android 4.0-based Ascend P1 S is the thinnest smartphone yet introduced, the company said on Monday.
If you're not Google or Apple and are in the TV business, someone is going to eat your lunch within three years. Here's why.
Sony says the PS3 is in its halcyon phase and that it's not so much so much as 'contemplating' talking about its next console at this point.
Asus becomes the second tablet maker with plans for a 1920-by-1200 resolution display on a 10.1-inch Android tablet.
Iomega adds two products to the growing army of network devices designed to make storing and serving up date easy and affordable.
Hugh Pickens writes "For the past three years, Android has experienced a kind of free space expansion, but as we enter 2012, it seems the game may be changing. Instead of the old 'there's more than enough room for every Android handset maker to be a winner,' we have a three-horse's-length leader: Samsung shipping close to 55% of all Android phones, while Motorola and HTC lag behind. '[Samsung] could be in a position to twist Google's arm,' writes Jean-Louis Gassée.'If last quarter's trend continues — if Motorola and HTC lose even more ground — Samsung's bargaining position will become even stronger.' But what is Samsung's 'bargaining position'? What could they want? Perhaps more search referral money, earlier access to Android releases, or a share of advertising revenue. Will Google let Samsung gain the upper hand? It's not likely, because Motorola is about to become a fully-owned but 'independent' Google subsidiary, and its 16% of the Android market could counterbalance Samsung's influence to some extent. So what could Samsung do? 'Consider the Kindle Fire example: Just like Amazon picked the Android lock, Samsung could grab the Android Open Source code and create its own unlicensed but fully legal smartphone OS and still benefit from a portion of Android apps, or it could build its own app store the way Amazon did,' writes Gassée. 'Samsung is a tough, determined fighter and won't let Google dictate its future. The same can be said of Google. This is going to be interesting.'"
Morty writes "In 1961, C.S. Lewis nominated JRR Tolkien for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tolkien did not receive the prize. 50 years later, the archives for that year have been made available, so now we know why. Tolkien's prose was viewed as low quality."
jfruhlinger writes "A recent study claimed that the top 1 percent of mobile data users eat up half of the available bandwidth. But assuming it's true, who's at fault? Stats show data usage has increased radically with each new model of the iPhone, and similar phenomena are in place for Android phones — all of which are gleefully sold to the public by the same people who complain about 'data hogs.' Isn't this the equivalent of a car dealer heavily promoting Cadillacs, then complaining about poor fuel efficiency, then charging a ton for extra gasoline?"
Zothecula writes "Scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a 'write-once-read-many-times' (WORM) memory device that combines electrodes, silver nanoparticles, and salmon DNA. While the current device is simply a proof-of-concept model, the researchers have stated that DNA could turn out to be a less expensive alternative to traditional inorganic materials such as silicon."
SharkLaser writes "A video game developer working for Kuma Reality Games has admitted that the company has been receiving money from the CIA to design and freely distribute special movies and games with the aim of manipulating public opinion in the Middle East. Amir Mizra Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, moved to work for Kuma after working for DARPA and has said the goal of the company was to convince people that whatever the U.S. does in other countries is a good measure. Kuma officials have declined to comment, while Hekmati himself is locked in Iran. The United States government has demanded the release of Hekmati, but Iran has sentenced him to death for spying, which he confessed to."
Sven-Erik writes "Due to subtle variations in the Earth's orbit, researchers have calculated that the next Ice Age is due within 1,500 years. However, a new study suggests greenhouse gas emissions mean it will not happen that soon (abstract). 'Dr Skinner's group ... calculates that the atmospheric concentration of CO2 would have to fall below about 240 parts per million (ppm) before the glaciation could begin. The current level is around 390ppm. Other research groups have shown that even if emissions were shut off instantly, concentrations would remain elevated for at least 1,000 years, with enough heat stored in the oceans potentially to cause significant melting of polar ice and sea level rise.'"
The Bad Astronomer writes "Using real data from Hubble Space Telescope of a planet orbiting another star, exoplanetary scientist Frédéric Pont created a lovely image of what sunset would look like from HD209458b, nicknamed Osiris, a planet 150 light years away. The Hubble data gave information on the atmospheric absorption of this hot Jupiter planet, and, coupled with models of how the atmosphere was layered, Pont was able to create a realistic looking sunset on the planet. The big surprise: the star looks green as it sets! Sodium absorption sucks out the red colors and blue is scattered away, leaving just the green hues to get through. It's a lovely application of hard scientific knowledge."
New submitter lrsach01 writes "Wizards of the Coast has announced a 'new iteration' of their Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Early information says the game will be more inclusive, with a basic rule set that 'builds out.' This Spring, WotC will be 'conducting ongoing open playtests with the gaming community to gather feedback on the new iteration of the game as we develop it.'"
An anonymous reader writes "The alleged rescue of a U.S. military communications satellite underscores some of the weaknesses in U.S. space efforts. Quoting: 'The seven-ton “AEHF-1,” part of a planned six-satellite constellation meant to support radio communication between far-flung U.S. military units, had been in orbit just one day when the problems began. The satellite started out in a highly-elliptical, temporary orbit. The plan was to use the spacecraft’s on-board engine to boost it to a permanent, geo-stationary orbit. But when the Air Force space operators at Los Angeles Air Force Base activated the engine, nothing happened. The Government Accountability Office would later blame the failure on a rag left inside a fuel line by a Lockheed worker.'"
ambermichelle writes with an excerpt from an article in Txchnologist: "Going to Mars? Expect to stay a while. Because of the relative motions of Earth and Mars, the pioneering astronauts who touch down on the Martian surface will have to remain there for a year and a half. For this reason, NASA has already started experimenting with a habitat fit for the long-term exploration of Mars. Last year, students at the University of Wisconsin won the XHab competition to design and build an inflatable loft addition to a habitat shell that NASA had already constructed. The final structure now serves as a working model that is being tested in the Arizona desert. Like any home, it's a sacred bulwark against the elements; but not just the cold, heat, and pests of Arizona. A Mars habitat will have to protect astronauts from cosmic rays, solar flares, and unknown soil compositions all while keeping inhabitants happy and comfortable."
ananyo writes with an excerpt from a Nature news release: "By bringing long-dead proteins back to life, researchers have worked out the process by which evolution added a component to a cellular machine. ... In a paper published in Nature, researchers recreated an 'ancestral' version of a cellular machine called the V-ATPase proton pump, which channels protons across membranes and is vital for keeping cell compartments at the right acidity. Part of this machine is a ring of six proteins that threads through the membrane. Animals and most other eukaryotes have a ring composed of two types of protein component; fungi are alone in having a ring with three. The researchers used computational methods to work backwards and find the most likely sequences of these proteins hundreds of millions of years ago. The team inserted the DNA into yeast and found that just two mutations can turn the simple 2-protein ring into the more complex 3-protein ring."
New submitter DCTech writes "South Korea's Fair Trade Commission is accusing Google of methodically interfering with an anti-competition investigation into Android. 'Google deleted files and made its employees work from home in an attempt to frustrate the investigation, alleges the commission in an interview with a South Korean newspaper [machine translation]. The non-cooperation allegedly came after Google's Seoul office was raided by the commission's officials in September. The anti-competition probers were looking into whether Google's Android phones unfairly prioritize Google search and are "systematically designed" to make it difficult to switch to another option'. Now the South Korean watchdog is considering maximum fines for Google's non-compliance. Google is currently under investigation for similar anti-competition issues in Europe and the U.S."
An anonymous reader writes "ScientiaMobile, the company formed behind the open source library WURFL, an API used to do mobile device detection for web applications, has issued a DMCA takedown notice against the OpenDDR project on Github. ScientiaMobile claims that OpenDDR is 'ripping them off' by forking their database, which used to be licensed under a liberal license. Newer versions of the device database are licensed under restrictive licenses which do not allow any modification or redistribution."
An anonymous reader writes "New research shows people might start to suffer from cognitive decline as early as age 45. The research, which looked at over 7000 people between the ages of 45 and 70 when the study started, watched participants over a 10 year period. Disturbingly enough, even the youngest participants started declining immediately."
cylonlover writes with this excerpt from an article at Gizmag: "Research into developing insect cyborgs for use as first responders or super stealthy spies has been going on for a while now. Most research has focused on using batteries, tiny solar cells, or piezoelectric generators to harvest kinetic energy from the movement of an insect's wings to power the electronics attached to the insects. Now a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University have created a biofuel cell power supply that relies just on the insect's normal feeding [registration required to download full paper]."