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Research In Motion on Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry smartphones and a voice over WiFi feature to its voice technology. The new devices are the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and the BlackBerry Bold 9650. The new BlackBerry Pearl 3G measures 4.25 by 1.96 by 0.52 inches and weighs 3.3 ounces. It has a 624 M...

Why go into a Barnes & Noble, find a comfy chair and flip through the pages of a physical book when you can go into a Barnes & Noble, find a comfy chair and flip through the pages of a virtual book on the Nook e-reader? It may sound like an only-in-the-21st-century situation, as digital tech...

The market is in a planning cycle, and analysts are being asked to take a look in their crystal balls and describe what 2013 will look like. Clearly, we will have more bandwidth, 3-D TV will be ramping, and most of us will either be using tablet devices for something or moving to the next big thin...

Twenty years ago Saturday, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit, beginning its journey to become NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived and most prolific space observatory. To celebrate the milestone, NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Space Telescope Science Institute r...

IBM researchers in Switzerland said they've come up with a patterning technique that lets them create structures as small as 15 nanometers. One nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter. In comparison, a human hair is between .03 and .25 mm thick. Using the nanopatterning technique, the researchers h...

Two months after the launch of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, its first images are now arriving back on Earth with more detail about the sun than has ever been seen before. Some of the images from the spacecraft reveal in new clarity the material streaming outward and away from sunspots. Others ...

Yes, here we go, another Apple column. Another chance to vent about a company that's morphed into something else. Another chance to decry its PR strategies, its capricious App Store policies, its famously mercurial founder. Yet because this column is coming on the heels of so many others who have ta...

Dell has plans to release five smartphones and two tablet-style PC devices, according to detailed specs and photos of the products that have been leaked to Engadget. The specs for the devices are thrilling the industry in a way that Dell's endeavors thus far -- primarily its Android-based Dell Mini ...

Microsoft announced a new revision of its SQL server software Wednesday, a version that the software maker is hailing as the "most complete information platform for managing, accessing and delivering information" in the corporate environment. "It's definitely a complete platform because it gets them...

When you work in the cybersecurity business, friends can make you their default -- read "unpaid" -- computer safety expert. Wen Tseng, research director for the Cloud Computing Alliance, really doesn't mind, however; it gives him a chance to confirm that scammers and hackers are increasingly relying...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it "the most transformative thing we've ever done on the Web," and Ginger McCall, chief counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, didn't disagree. "I was stunned and shocked and somewhat awed by their brilliance," McCall told TechNewsWorld. "I watched...

Google may have been the primary target of a sharp attack by privacy commissioners from 10 nations on Tuesday, but later that same day, the company revealed a new tool that could effectively turn the tables on those and other governments. Specifically, the company's new Government Requests tool is d...

Robots haunt our art and our dreams. Science-fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a whole series of novels around the idea of robotics -- the "Robot" series, one of which was made into the movie "I, Robot." The "Terminator" movies were all big hits, and science-fiction series such as Britain's "Dr. Who...

Saying they've grown increasingly impatient with online companies that pay too little heed to national privacy laws and expectations, data protection commissioners from 10 countries on Tuesday launched what they promised would be an ongoing effort to match worldwide enforcement with the growing glob...

Microsoft is targeting Realtors, insurance agencies and other small businesses that use a highly mobile, distributed workforce with Windows Intune, the new desktop management service it announced Monday. Intune, aimed at businesses with 25 to 500 PCs, offers online PC management and security in the ...


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