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Google's mapping technology is zooming down from its overhead views and placing users on the street with the freedom to check out restaurants and landmarks and even home in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans. The "street view" feature in Google Maps provides panoramic, 360-degree stre...
Microsoft has taken the touchscreen PC concept in a new direction, amping it up with a 30-inch screen, giving it five eyes and turning it horizontal to create a coffee table that can sense multiple touches at the same time. Based on Windows Vista and called "Microsoft Surface," the new computer can ...
Rupert Murdoch, who lost a chance to buy YouTube last year when the massive video-hosting site was gobbled up by Google, has snagged two other Internet companies that are popular with young people: Photobucket and Flektor. Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media, which owns the heavily visited social networ...
Antispyware legislation awaiting Senate action offers little promise of meaningful prosecution against violators, said Ron O'Brien, a senior security analyst with antispyware firm Sophos. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an antispyware bill that would impose specific penalties for scamme...
Microsoft garnered a lot of buzz this week after reports broke the software giant had shipped its 1 millionth Zune -- putting it ahead of a company goal set shortly after it launched its MP3 player in November. However, those reports apparently were jumping the gun. Microsoft exec Robbie Bach was er...
A new installment of Mozilla's sterling e-mail program, Thunderbird, has been released, and while this new variant doesn't blow the doors off its predecessor, version 1.5, it has some tantalizing enhancements that spurred me to upgrade to the new edition without hesitation. A major change in the app...
Turn on your monitor and boot up your computer, because class is in session. Many college students now raised on the Internet and mobile devices will not be limited to sitting in traditional "brick-and-mortar" classrooms as schools look to the latest offerings in virtual technology and Internet broa...
Sony has developed a display screen so thin it can bend like a piece of paper while at the same time showing full-color video. In the continuing race to shrink the size of gadgets while increasing the amount of cutting-edge technology crammed inside, Sony has topped its competitors with the release ...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army has set up "information warfare" units to create viruses for use in attacking enemy computer systems and networks, according to a Department of Defense report released Friday. "The People's Liberation Army is pursuing comprehensive transformation from a mass army...
Once a feisty competitor that beat Intel to market with processor innovations and lower costs, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has lately slumped a bit. That could change, as Japanese electronics giant Toshiba confirmed Tuesday it plans to use AMD processors in some of its laptops. The deal would p...
Demand is high for a super system that can promise protection from external threats while organizations' networks, data and software applications become increasingly interconnected. Since Cisco Systems coined the term and released its first "network access control" system in 2003, interest in NACs h...
The PS3 hasn't been doing well. It has been getting thrashed by the Xbox 360 and the Wii. To add insult to injury, even the PS2 has outsold it -- and it's obsolete. It now looks like Sony is executing a comeback plan, and that the PS3 may be looking interesting again. The Microsoft patent thing tha...
Recent press reports have indicated that a managed copy specification -- supported by the Advanced Access Content System that provides the copy-prevention system on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs -- may be nearing reality. Details, however, are few and far between. The AACS has acknowledged that it is tal...
Web surfers all too familiar with the distorted-letter tests that accompany so many site registration forms today can now take heart -- the time they spend on those tests is being put to good use. Thanks to a project at Carnegie Mellon University, a new version of those pesky CAPTCHA tests makes the...
MySpace competitor Facebook has introduced a new open platform that allows developers to build applications that integrate with the social networking site and can be chosen by users to appear within their Facebook profile pages. Announced Thursday by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- and c...
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