Archive

Spanish police announced Friday they have arrested the leaders of the Anonymous hacker group in that country. They also claim to have found a server that coordinated and implemented computer attacks on government, financial and business websites worldwide, including the Sony's PlayStation Network, a...

Apple and Microsoft are competitors, and while both companies are clearly more concerned with Google than each other at the moment, they serve as a great example of why good, well-funded marketing is important. Apple leads the world in the art of crafting perceptions. Though it has a market share th...

IBM researchers have demonstrated a graphene circuit which integrates all circuit components onto a single wafer made of silicon carbide. Graphene is a mesh of carbon atoms that's one atom thick. Integrating it monolithically -- meaning in one unit -- with other materials is a problem researchers ha...

Android apps are becoming more popular as the Android operating system gains ground in the mobile market. IDC expects Android to take more than 40 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in the second half of 2011. However, with Android's growing popularity comes a growing risk of malware attacks...

For 24 hours on Wednesday, 400-plus Internet companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft teamed up for a large-scale production test of the next-gen Internet protocol, IPv6. Organized by the Internet Society to raise awareness of the need for a global transition to the new Internet protocol, ...

The Reading Revolution

Books, writing and text aren't going away, but with the proliferation of digital devices, tablets and smartphones, along with the apps that serve them, the written word is evolving in new and intriguing ways. In fact, the evolution of digital books is, in some ways, making reading cool again. "With ...

Facebook has begun rolling out worldwide a tag suggestions feature that uses facial recognition software to automatically suggest tags for the faces appearing in new photos uploaded to its site. The announcement has raised concerns that the feature will impinge upon users' privacy. When a member upl...

Nintendo unveiled its upcoming Wii U gaming console and controller on Tuesday at E3, and reactions have been mixed. Nintendo's stock fell 5 percent following the event -- to a level it has not seen since before the launch of the original Wii. The controversy-generating Wii U controller has a 6.2 inc...

It must have been a heart-stopping moment four centuries ago when the earliest users of the original optical microscope first peered through the device at a drop of pond water. Although that water had surely appeared clear to the naked eye, a virtual parade of unfamiliar and even sinister-looking bl...

At this writing, the start of World IPv6 Day is a few short hours off, but if it's June 8, and you're reading this after having accessed it via a Google or Yahoo search, then World IPv6 day has been a success. Not that the chances are big that you'll be stymied in your attempts to navigate the Web. ...

Nintendo unveiled a new touchscreen controller for its upcoming Wii U gaming console at an E3 presentation Tuesday that was hosted by Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, President Satoru Iwata, and Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. The new Wii U controller includes a microphone, face an...

Innovative 3D technology, connectivity, a new Move controller and the reveal of a 3G NGP (Next Generation Portable) were some of the highlights rolled out by Sony's video game division at the E3 2011 Conference in Los Angeles on Monday. Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Jack Tretton gree...

Maybe the "printer" part of "3D printer" is not exactly the right word, since printing has so long been thought of as a two-dimensional process of applying ink to paper. But the term, like the 3D printing process itself, seems to be here to stay. 3D printers, which use a wide range of technologies ...

On the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft premiered a lineup of new games for the Xbox 360, including "Gears of War 3" and "Forza Motorsport 4." The company also debuted the trailer for "Halo 4" and unveiled the next installment of "Fable," by developer Peter Molyneux. In addition, ...

Enterprises and other large organizations have already begun riding the wave of the consumerization of IT, and the voice of the mobile device user is being heard through the land. Even the U.S. federal government is reportedly letting staff bring in their own mobile devices to use at work, leading t...


Technewsworld Channels