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The VGA port, the connection that's bridged computers to their monitors almost from the birth of the PC industry, is on its way out. Chip manufacturers Intel and AMD, with backing from various computer vendors, have announced their support for the venerable technology will be phased out by 2015. The...
Former President Bill Clinton's keynote speech Wednesday at Dreamforce 2010 in San Francisco was delayed because his flight came in late, so Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff got entertainer Stevie Wonder on stage to talk about his life. When president Clinton finally appeared almost an h...
Cyberattacks this week by supporters of Wikileaks on the home sites of Visa and MasterCard may have been designed to grab headlines rather than actually disrupt the companies' financial operations. The wave of electronic assaults, referred to as "Operation Payback" by the activists mounting the atta...
Without breaking the bank, Microsoft's research division and the University of Washington astronomy department have teamed up to bring new light to an old technology: the planetarium. Nearly three thousand planetariums dot the U.S. terrestrial landscape, featuring celestial shows about stars, planet...
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will add a "do not track" option to the next version of Internet Explorer 9 when it is released in 2011. The Tracking Protection feature is a privacy tool designed to help keep third-party websites from monitoring users' Web behavior by letting users filter cont...
Private commercial space travel took one small step for humankind Wednesday morning as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and made a successful splashdown. Dragon space capsule in tow, the Falcon 9 represented a $400 million investment from, among others, SpaceX ...
What's the difference between a browser and an operating system? Or, can Google take on Microsoft is its sweet spot -- the Windows operating system? Google held a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday announcing Google Chrome OS, an Internet-based operating system that has been launched in beta ...
IBM has released the second Software as a Service offering in its Tivoli Live portfolio: its IT service desk. Called "Tivoli Live-service manager," this release follows last year's Tivoli Live-monitoring service, a SaaS app that manages the health and performance of IT resources. The IT service desk...
Like almost everyone -- including government and law enforcement officials on multiple continents -- I'm struggling to answer this question: Exactly who is Julian Assange? is Assange merely a journalist with an altruistic desire to uncover the truth about the actions of governments and large corpora...
In a figurative googolplex of names and programs, Google and Motorola unveiled a tablet computer Monday night at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference that runs on Google's Android 3.0 operating system, aka "Honeycomb." Only the tablet remains without a name. Conference gawkers claim the Google/Motor...
Since it arrived in 2004, Facebook has faced its share of unwelcome stories in the media, and it seems that security and privacy issues are a repeating theme. But when was the last time you heard about Facebook's site crashing? With more than 500 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in d...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange looms like the mysterious British freedom fighter V atop the Drudge Report, threatening a "devastating" confidential document dump if his organization suffers any more hack attacks. Paypal says Wikileaks and its donors are pals no more. Amazon.com boots Wikileaks off...
For the next year, Wafaa Bilal, an assistant art professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, will record his life through still images taken at one-minute intervals by a camera surgically attached to the back of his head. The photos will be sent to an art museum in Qatar which commi...
Last week, both Google and Sony were talking trash numbers in competitive comments against Microsoft. Both did this when the SEC is having real problems with public companies and numbers, so I thought they were incredibly brave, given how incredibly fanciful their numbers were. I also want to take a...
Future generations always hold promise, but for Verizon Wireless, a fourth-generation mobile broadband network is proving both promising -- and perilous. With speeds Verizon promises will be "up to 10 times faster than the company's 3G network," the 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network launches December ...
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