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A company in India has developed a smartphone for the blind. The device, three years in the making, will be equipped to read text messages and emails, and it will then convert the text to Braille. It will utilize shape memory alloy technology, which exploits a metal's ability to "remember" its origi...
Mobile phone maker Nokia on Wednesday announced the latest addition to its low-cost Asha feature phone line, the Asha 210. Aimed at emerging markets, the device has a QWERTY keyboard and support for Facebook, Twitter and popular email accounts such as Gmail. It has a dedicated WhatsApp button for ac...
We've been seeing a gradual reduction of spam in our email in-boxes due to efforts by ISPs and email providers, new laws and education. However, the same isn't true for junk phone calls and text messages. Laws provide some protection from marketing intrusions, and it's possible to thwart much of the...
The peer-to-peer technology company BitTorrent this week introduced the alpha version of BitTorrent Sync, a service that will let people sync and transfer files between multiple devices. "There are no file size limits, and the speed of transfer is only limited by your Internet connection," said Bret...
Sony is giving bird-watchers -- or anyone else who wants a closer look at something -- a way to truly zoom in on the action with its new DEV-50 binoculars, set to ship in June. While many nature lovers and sports fans can't put a price on what they might see through the binoculars, Sony has put a pr...
People feel uncomfortable when they see robots tortured, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Duisburg Essen in Germany. While the results may explain why some robots are popular characters in science fiction, they also have implications for robotics as more machines intera...
Police in Australia have arrested a 24-year-old who claims to be a high-level member of the international hacking collective Lulzsec. The IT worker was charged with two counts of unauthorized modification of data and one count of unauthorized access to/modification of restricted data. In other words...
You can do a whole lot more than watch your favorite sports on television these days if you take advantage of a second screen. The concept is simple: The big TV screen provides the visual action, while your laptop or tablet dishes out in-depth analysis and social media commentary on the side. Window...
State-sponsored cyberespionage incidents in 2012 tripled over the previous year, according the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Report. 96 percent of those attacks were attributable to East Asia. Verizon's study, which analyzed 47,000 security incidents, expanded its contributors this year to 19, including ...
Voice-based systems offer no real safety advantage over manual texting, according to a study sponsored by the Southwest Region University Transportation Center and conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. The study, reportedly the first of its kind, is based on the performance of 43 ...
Dramatic rhetoric, tiny fine. German data regulators fined Google less than $190,000 for collecting information from unsecured WiFi networks while it compiled data for Google Street View. The data scoop was, according to Germany's data chief, "one of the biggest known data protection violations in h...
A page of computer code being tested by Google may be pointing the way toward future integration of the Google Now mobile virtual assistant into the search company's famously minimalist home page. The code was first found by Google Operating System, a blog that labels itself as "unofficial news and ...
Sometimes it's a mistake to assume something -- or someone -- has outlived its usefulness just because it's already done one thing successfully. For example, many of us have a wealth of decommissioned corporate-provisioned mobile devices: We've bought them, handed them out, and seen them used succes...
Samsung is researching a system that would allow consumers to use thought control on a tablet computer, according to published reports. Together with Roozbeh Jafari, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, the company is testing how sensors and brainwaves could let users turn on...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt defended the company's tax practices in the United Kingdom, where Google and a handful of other U.S. tech companies have been chastised for not paying enough taxes. Google paid just over $9 million in UK taxes in 2011, despite hundreds of millions in turnover. ...
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