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Call it "Clash of the Titan," emphasis on the singular: a courtroom victory for software giant Microsoft over Matt Miszewski that restrains the former employee from joining CRM rival Salesforce.com Miszewski, a Microsoft government services division manager until last December, violated non-compete and confidentiality agreements he "signed upon beg...
Facebook is not -- repeat NOT -- developing a mobile phone, a company representative told TechNewsWorld Wednesday, trying to waylay the latest rumor that the social media giant might be looking to add a new identity -- "Phonebook," perhaps? -- to its mega-popular worldwide brand. The latest gossip -- that HTC will launch two such phones at the Mob...
Printing is headed for the cloud, Google has announced multiple times in the past year, and on Monday, it beta-launched Cloud Print for mobile documents "Imagine printing an important document from your smartphone on the way to work and finding the printout waiting for you when you walk in the door," Google Cloud Print team member Tyler Odean poste...
The Morpho butterfly's highly evolved wings are so unique that scientists at Simon Fraser University (SFU) have teamed up with NanoTech Security to reproduce their iridescent blue coloring for a new anti-counterfeiting technology. ...
Like the Incredibles, facing down a nefarious, subterranean villain called "the Underminer" at the end of their debut movie, Mozilla is facing down data miners by giving Firefox users a new, albeit less-than-incredible power The browser feature will give users the ability to opt out of behavior-based advertising. Websites and ad servers will get a ...
Verizon Communications Thursday picked a legal fight with the Federal Communications Commission over its recently announced Net neutrality rules "We are deeply concerned by the FCC's assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation," said Michael Glover, Verizon senior vice president and deputy general counsel. "We believe this assertion of...
Johns Hopkins University scientists have deciphered the genetic code for a rare type of pancreatic cancer -- neuroendocrine or islet cell tumor -- that Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the world he'd been diagnosed with back in 2004 The discovery explains many of the cancer's troubling, highly variable properties and suggests new treatment approaches.
Frantic parents concerned about their children's digital habits have found a new ally in the form of a study by U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore researchers, published in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics Roughly 10 percent of young video gamers suffer a pathological addiction to their games, the research team found....
Bank secrecy is back in the news, this time as former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two computer discs at a high-profile news conference on Monday. Tax evaders, nefarious bankers, shady politicians, unethical business leaders, cheating celebrities, organized crime bosses: It's all on the discs, Elmer claimed, ...
Intel is turning on the lights, but without light. The chip maker will use copper instead of fiber in its new Light Peak optical interconnection technology, reaching speeds surprisingly better than the company expected, Intel architecture group director David Perlmutter said in a Friday interview with IDG News Service at CES The copper achieved dat...
The need for more time to repair ominous-looking cracks in metal struts that support space shuttle Discovery's hefty exterior fuel tanks prompted NASA officials Thursday to call for a launch delay, moving the flight from a previously planned early February date to that month's end. The delay, which follows a failed November launch attempt, has NAS...
"Avatar" movie director James Cameron couldn't have scripted a better keynote speech for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday that Kinect and Xbox will connect with consumers via avatars, transporting Xbox Live Gold subscribers into the chatty, motion-savvy, virtual world of Avatar Kinect...
Special glasses to view 3D movies have been around for decades, almost representing a bad theatrical cliche -- rows of eyeglass-clad teens screaming, for instance, as an ax from the latest slasher film comes bolting out of the screen With a 3D-equipped laptop today and 3D television on the way, Toshiba is taking the glasses off. At this week's Cons...
With a sexy splash page -- a young woman in short shorts waving her arms before a TV screen -- PrimeSense and hardware maker Asus are inviting consumers to connect with kinetics through Wavi Xtion, a three-dimensional technology that couples cameras, motion sensors, and televisions with personal computers It also reminds several tech pundits of Mic...
Rampant speculation about which major financial institution Wikileaks founder Julian Assange means to target with a document dump in 2011 has at least one U.S. bank -- Bank of America -- playing aggressive defense BofA executives are reportedly scouring documents for potentially damaging information, and trying to determine if any computer hard dri...
With electron microscopes and tiny wires far thinner than a human hair, U.S. Department of Energy researchers have pinpointed key events in the life of a consumer electronics staple -- the lithium ion battery Their findings could lead to smaller, longer-lasting, more powerful batteries ready to rev up next-gen electric vehicles, laptops, cellphones...
A University of Missouri professor has developed a "smart carpet" that monitors the movements of elderly persons and can detect the potential for a dangerous fall. The project received funding from the Alzheimer's Association. The purpose of the flooring system is to help patients remain both independent and safe unobtrusively. With sensors under ...
Let the exceptions and exemptions begin, Net neutrality critics cry, as the Federal Communications Commission's newly approved rules take effect for all but a chosen few -- mobile broadband providers, that is, with a Google-Verizon pact taking the lead. Striking similarities between the FCC ruling and an August 2010 Google-Verizon proposal to the ...
By a 3-2 vote Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a sweeping new Internet regulatory framework commonly referred to as "Net neutrality rules." Long-winded monologues filled with references to innovation, transparency, freedom -- and staff kudos -- kept commission members talking for well over an hour, as they took to their resp...
Net neutrality may be anything but after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) votes Tuesday on the proposal, rumored to contain a controversial "usage-based pricing provision" that could boost service provider bottom lines. A PowerPoint presentation leaked to Wired Magazine "by a trusted source" reveals two large wireless suppliers -- Allot...
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