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Research In Motion announced five new smartphones based on its new BlackBerry 7 operating system on Wednesday. AT&T, Sprint and U.S. Cellular will all get new devices that maintain some of the feel of earlier products while offering functionality competitive with the leading smartphones on the m...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a system that combines facial recognition technology with social networking data and information drawn from other sources, raising new privacy concerns. The research team, led by Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology ...
Lenovo unveiled its first round of tablets on Wednesday: the IdeaPad K1 for consumers; the ThinkPad for business customers; and the Windows 7-powered IdeaPad P1 for home and office use. The IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad tablets are the first Lenovo mobile Internet devices to feature the Android 3.1, or Ho...
Can the courts make you open your computer? They can certainly confiscate your computer and search it for evidence of criminal activity; they can compel you to open encrypted files if you're a suspected terrorist (The Patriot Act); but if you plead the Fifth, they may not be able to order you to for...
Who's the most popular person on Google's spanking new social networking site? Britney? Lady Gaga? Larry or Sergey? Nope, it's Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He has racked up a whopping 29,543 followers on Google+ as of Tuesday, beating out Google cofounders Larry Page -- who came in second with 19,8...
For 24 hours on Wednesday, 400-plus Internet companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft teamed up for a large-scale production test of the next-gen Internet protocol, IPv6. Organized by the Internet Society to raise awareness of the need for a global transition to the new Internet protocol, ...
Nintendo unveiled its upcoming Wii U gaming console and controller on Tuesday at E3, and reactions have been mixed. Nintendo's stock fell 5 percent following the event -- to a level it has not seen since before the launch of the original Wii. The controversy-generating Wii U controller has a 6.2 inc...
Nintendo unveiled a new touchscreen controller for its upcoming Wii U gaming console at an E3 presentation Tuesday that was hosted by Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, President Satoru Iwata, and Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. The new Wii U controller includes a microphone, face an...
On the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft premiered a lineup of new games for the Xbox 360, including "Gears of War 3" and "Forza Motorsport 4." The company also debuted the trailer for "Halo 4" and unveiled the next installment of "Fable," by developer Peter Molyneux. In addition, ...
Intel has unveiled details of its plans for the breed of super-thin, rapid-on, tablet-like laptops which it calls "Ultrabooks" at China's Computex Taipei 2011. The computer chip giant expects Ultrabooks to take over 40 percent of the laptop market within six to nine months. The new super-thin laptop...
Google has introduced a new tool to the social networking world using one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will debut a feature for Gmail called the "People Widget." The widget will appear to the right of messages and display information about contacts, including recent m...
Facebook and other Internet sites have joined forces to oppose the Social Networking Privacy Act, pending California legislation that would require them to change the way they handle user privacy online. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Skype, Match.com, eHarmony and Yahoo are among the companies that sig...
You may think you know the shortest, quickest route to work, but wait till Google get its hands on your steering wheel. Smart technology may save you gas you didn't even know you were wasting. Ford is working with Google to harness the power of cloud computing and analytics in order to design techn...
The winners of the 15th Annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday. Webby awards and People's Voice awards were handed out to honor the best of the Internet in dozens of categories. Funny or Die received the most awards with nine total wins including best humor website and multiple awards for its...
Hackers are reportedly attempting to sell 2.2 million credit card numbers stolen from the PlayStation Network database. Sony earlier said customers' personal data was encrypted; however, the company could not rule out the possibility that hackers might have accessed it. By Thursday, security researc...
Nokia chief Stephen Elop said Wednesday that his company is in no hurry to get into the tablet market. In an interview on YLE TV in Nokia's homeland, Finland, Elop observed that there were already more than 200 tablets on the market and only one was really doing well, the iPad, and he didn't want No...
Sony is developing its first entries into the tablet market. The tablets are going by the code names "S1" and "S2," and they will be available in the global market in fall 2011. S1 will be optimized for rich media entertainment, and S2 will be optimized for mobile communication and entertainment. Th...
Barnes & Noble unveiled a major update for its e-reader tablet, the Nook Color, on Monday. The $249 e-reader lets customers have some tablet features without having to break the bank. The Nook Color operating system is upgraded to Android OS 2.2/Froyo and will now support Adobe Flash Player. The...
The collapse of Amazon Web Services' Elastic Cloud Compute left several large websites out of commission on Thursday. Amazon reportedly attributed the problems to what it called "a networking event" that caused runaway re-mirroring of Elastic Block Storage volumes. The resulting cascade took down ...
Young Kindle is getting a library card -- at 11,000 libraries. Amazon announced Kindle Library Lending on Wednesday. The new feature, which launches later this year, will let Kindle customers borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 libraries in the United States. Kindle Library Lending will work o...
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