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This may come as news to owners of 4G smartphones, but the Internet apparently isn't fast enough and needs to speed up. Google and Microsoft have submitted separate proposals to accomplish this Google's SPDY (pronounced "speedy") proposal defines and implements an application-layer protocol that reduces latency and seeks to replace parts of the HTT...
Google has rolled out version 1 of its experimental open source Go computer programing language, 14 months after it first announced the language back in 2009 Go "is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language," Go team lead Rob Pi...
Sony is working on the PlayStation 4, which it calls "Orbis," and plans to release the device in time for the holiday season in 2013, according to a report in Kotaku The console can reportedly play 3D games at 1080p resolution, as compared to the PS3's 720p. It apparently won't be backward-compatible with games for the PS3 and will reportedly seek ...
In its ongoing quest to keep Flash relevant in the face of strong competition from HTML5, Adobe on Wednesday announced Flash Player 11.2, featuring a silent updates option to enhance the platform's security Improving the security of Flash Player through silent updates is critical because more than 99 percent of malware installations succeed by targ...
The Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday released BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game written in HTML5, JavaScript and other open source languages. [*Correction - March 29, 2012] ...
Google is reportedly planning to launch its own third-party commenting system soon It will apparently be tied into its Google+ social platform, its Web services and the company's Web search products....
Nine months after shutting down operations -- and just weeks after several suspected members were arrested -- the LulzSec hacker community has apparently sprung back to life, hacking the website of military dating site MilitarySingles However, there's some controversy over whether that site had indeed been hit by the hackers....
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has teamed up with private cloud infrastructure provider Eucalyptus in a move that could enable the deployment of hybrid clouds Hybrid clouds are a combination of internal private clouds and external public clouds.
Microsoft, together with partners from the financial services industry, has hit the operators of a botnet running the Zeus Trojan Escorted by U.S. Marshals, staff of the companies seized command and control (C&C) servers in two hosting locations -- Scranton, Pa. and Lombard, Ill. -- and took down two IP addresses related to the C&C structure....
The government of Iceland recently launched a one-year migration project for all its public institutions in what appears to be an acceleration of its movement toward free and open source software (FOSS) and away from proprietary systems, according to the European Commission blog Joinup The project will apparently lay the foundation for the migratio...
Reacting to recent reports that some organizations are demanding that job seekers turn over their Facebook passwords, the social network on Friday criticized the practice for undermining members' privacy expectations and security It also pointed out that such a move could expose employers who ask for passwords to dangerous liabilities and vowed to ...
Cyberattacks carried out by hacktivists -- hackers motivated by political reasons -- shot up in 2011, accounting for 58 percent of the data stolen in cyberbreaches, according to Verizon The company's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report also stated that 79 percent of the attacks were opportunistic, meaning they were carried out because an opportu...
Developers are losing interest in creating apps for Android because of the continued fragmentation of the operating system, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC between January and February Its results show that interest in Android phone app development fell by nearly five percentage points over the past quarter to about ...
Dutch mechanical engineer Jarno Smeets created a stir on YouTube recently with a video that shows him flying by flapping a set of wings attached to his back -- without any connection between the wings and his arms. However, many questions have been raised regarding the authenticity of the video, which is on Smeets' blog....
Users of mobile devices on GSM networks may soon be able to roam seamlessly from one WiFi hotspot to another without having to repeatedly log in and authenticate their devices The GSM Association (GSMA) and the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) are collaborating to create technical and commercial frameworks for WiFi roaming....
Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced version 3.3 of the kernel Sunday Among the most noteworthy changes found in 3.3 is the merging of kernel code from the Android project....
The Privacy Shell Game, Part 1 The White House has proposed a consumer privacy bill of rights, a step that could result in new laws regarding what companies can do with information about their online customers and users. Privacy advocates are cautiously optimistic, though some fear the result will be laws rendered toothless by lobbyists....
With much fanfare, the Obama administration recently unveiled a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protections online in the United States This consists of four parts: An online consumer privacy bill of rights, a stakeholder-driven process to specify how those rights apply in specific business contexts, enforcement by the United States Federal T...
Similar to Apple's iOS, Android is vulnerable to apps secretly copying photos, The New York Times has reported The publication commissioned Android developer Ralph Gootee to create a test app that masquerades as a simple timer but steals the most recent image on the user's smartphone and posts it on a public photo-sharing site....
In the near future, cyberthreats will be the leading threat to the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller warned in a speech on Thursday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco Traditional crime, from mortgage and healthcare fraud to child exploitation, have moved online, while terrorists have become increasingly cyber-savvy, Mueller said....
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