| Facebook criticised for 'hurting' cybercrime investigation Facebook for identifying the alleged members of the gang behind the Koobface worm, a piece of malicious software designed to hijack users' computers.In an unusual... | |
| Teenagers 'prefer social media to TV' Teenagers now list using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as their number one pastime, overtaking watching television, according to a new report. Sixty-five per cent of the 16-24... |
| Yahoo! chairman steps down in boardroom clear-out Roy Bostock and three other directors are to step down in a boardroom clear-out as the embattled US internet company attempts to win back investor support.The upheaval comes amid a strategic impasse... |
| In Piracy Debate, Deciding if the Sky Is Falling A protest against proposed laws to curb Internet piracy outside the offices of Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Senator Charles E. Schumer in New York last... |
| Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Customizing Folder Previews The yellow folder icons sitting out on the Windows 7 desktop usually offer a micro-thumbnail peek of some of the files inside the folder. If you would prefer to give your desktop folders a more... |
| Nokia to Axe 4,000 Jobs, Move Assembly to Asia HELSINKI (Reuters) - Struggling Finnish phone maker Nokia plans to cut 4,000 more jobs at its plants in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it seeks to cut costs by moving smartphone assembly work to... |
| Woman's jaw reproduced by 3D printer Surgeons decided to replace an entire jaw of an elderly woman made using a 3D printing technique. (Credit: LayerWise)An elderly woman has received a replacement titanium jaw, an operation... |
| The iPhone is a nightmare for carriers Since Apple's iPhone debuted on Verizon's network in February 2011, Verizon's "EBITDA service margin" -- a closely watched metric that carriers use to measure their core... |
| Apple's $90 billion run AAPL ) shares closed at $372.50 and its market cap stood at $347 billion. Four months later, the stock is up nearly $100 and it's market cap is $437 billion. To put that $90 billiongain in... |
| Sprint Loss Is Smaller Than Estimated as IPhone Boosts Sales Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. wireless carrier, posted a narrower loss than analysts projected after Apple Inc.’s iPhone boosted... |
| Rambus Settles Claims With Nvidia, Signs Licensing Agreement Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Rambus Inc., which gets most of its sales from royalties, said it signed a patent agreement with Nvidia Corp., settling all claims with the... |
| Vodacom Sales Rise 12% on Record New Customers, Data Usage Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Vodacom Group Ltd., the largest provider of mobile-phone services to South Africans, said sales rose 12 percent in the three months through December as it added a record number... |
| Mototola launches Motoluxe smartphone in the UK Motorola has announced the launch of its Motoluxe smartphone in the UK. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered smartphone has a 4in touchscreen, an 8MP autofocus camera with flash and incorporates... |
| Twitter bomb joker is in court that threatened to blow up Robin Hood airport is in court challenging his conviction. Paul Chambers jokingly threatened to blow up the airport when bad weather threatened his travel plans. Although... |
| Nokia slashes another 4,000 jobs Nokia will cut 4,000 jobs in Finland, Hungary and Mexico to increase its competitiveness in the smartphone market. The three factories focus on smartphone product customisation, serving customers... |
| Oregon considers but rejects criminalising tweets Oregon has flirted with but rejected an attempt to criminalise the use of Twitter. A bill in the state legislature to criminalise messages sent over the micro-social networking application was set... |
| MEP David Martin becomes ACTA rapporteur Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has another European Parliament rapporteur, after the last one resigned in protest. Minister of the European Parliament (MEP) David Martin has taken over... |
| Yahoo sheds chairman and directors a letter to shareholders and explained that they are the result of a push to increase shareholder value. "These actions result from a process I initiated about six months ago in a special... |
| Rambus buys Unity Semiconductor Semiconductor for the tidy sum of $35 million, less than half of the company’s initial $75 million VC investment. Unity Semiconductor owns several memory patents, 147 to be precise, and in... |
| Nokia sacks 4,000 of its factory workers Nokia is axing 4,000 more jobs, all in its manufacturing arm, as announced in last year’s restructuring plan. The - exclusively - factory jobs in Nokia business units in Hungary (2,300),... |
| AMD dons white coat for HSA processing breakthrough a CPU-GPU integration technique that it reckons could boost processing power by over 20 percent. The method does not involve buckets of liquid nitrogen and waving goodbye to your PC warranty.... |
| Cavium releases up to 48 core SoC family a family of OCTEON III MIPS64 multicore systems on a chip with anywhere from one to 48 cores that can produce more than 100Gbps of application performance per chip. The design allows for linear... |
| Homeland security wants to take over your network , under a cunning plan being looked at by the US Senate, the DHS thinks that if it runs every corporate network in the Land of the Free the country will be much safer. We guess it will also mean... |
| RIM claims to have pulled its socks up RIM has been telling the world and its dog that it is ready to compete in Europe. Research In Motion's new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, told a group of developers that the next generation... |
| 4G is a battery vampire it is impossible to find a battery that lasts longer than a day because in areas with spotty 4G service, the phone spends an awful lot of battery power trying to hunt down a signal. While it is... |
| Google testing secret entertainment device said that Google has applied for a US Federal Communications Commission experimental licence to test an unnamed prototype which it says will connect to home electronics through wireless internet and... |
| Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic to merge chip operations , the three have been seen locked in intense discussions in a smoke filled room trying to iron out a deal that they can all live with. The big idea is to spin off their system chip design and... |
| Trustwave admits issuing 'man-in-the-middle' digital certificate Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy on SSL-protected connections within its corporate... |
| Oracle launches Advanced Analytics for R modeling language In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle... |
| Greenpeace scorecard rates green enterprise offerings Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according... |
| U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing center that will one day house exascale systems. The DOE... |
| Google to commit to offering some Motorola patents on fair terms Google is planning to send a letter to standards setting organizations, stating that Motorola Mobility's standards-essential patents will continue to be available on FRAND terms after its... |
| Sprint loss widens on iPhone costs Since Sprint subsidizes the cost of some of its phone sales, its costs rise and profit dwindles the more customers it wins. But since subscriptions fell short of expectations, its loss was smaller... |
| AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch (Reuters) - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content... |
| News Corp reaches more phone hacking settlements LONDON (Reuters) - A further 15 politicians, sportsmen and celebrities reached settlements with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday over a phone hacking scandal... |
| Nokia to axe 4,000 jobs, move assembly to Asia HELSINKI (Reuters) - Struggling Finnish phone maker Nokia plans to cut 4,000 more jobs at its plants in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it seeks to cut costs by moving smartphone assembly work to... |
| TomTom satnavs to tell good drivers from bad AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - TomTom satnavs will in future help insurers tell the difference between a good driver and a bad one under a scheme designed to revive the Dutch navigation device maker's... |
| Israel's JVP fund blazes digital gaming trail JERUSALEM (Reuters) - When Sam Glassenberg, a former gaming division manager at Microsoft, began to advocate building a games industry in Israel, he found support from Jerusalem Venture Partners... |
| S&P cuts Sony rating, warns of further downgrade TOKYO (Reuters) - Standard and Poor's cut its long-term debt rating on Sony Corp on Wednesday to BBB+, warning it may drop the consumer electronics giant a further notch within a year unless it... |
| HP's glass-covered HP Envy 14 Spectre available for pre-order, ships February 17 we said of the 14-inch system : "Compared to thin 13-inch ultrabooks and laptops like the MacBook Air, the Envy 14 Spectre is no lightweight. The 20mm-thick, 14-inch ultrabook fits within the... |
| Google gets Greenpeace props for work on energy (Credit: Greenpeace) Google received top accolades from Greenpeace for its work advancing cleaner energy, while Apple and Facebook didn't make the environmental watchdog group's IT... |
| Pinterest making money by adding tracking code to certain user pins (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) How does a Web site like Pinterest make money? At least one blogger has found and revealed the answer. ... |
| Startup SpringCoin aims to help those debt SpringCoin (formerly DebtEye), opens its online doors this morning with the noble intention of helping you, or possibly someone you know, get out of debt. No, SpringCoin won't pay your bills for... |
| Facebook's new photo viewer an homage to Google+ (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Facebook has launched a new photo viewer that Google+ users might feel awfully familiar with. Users who open images in Facebook will find that the... |
| Putting Google's Search Plus into context Editors' note: This is a guest column. See bios of Marvin Ammori and Luke Pelican below. A tech giant announces plans to bring search to a new level. It will provide users access to a wealth... |
| iPhone drives Sprint growth, but drags loss to $1.3B , but that growth came at a hefty price. Sprint reported a loss of $1.3 billion, or 43 cents a share. In the year-ago quarter, the company posted a loss of $929 million, or 31 cents a share. The... |
| Nginx tries converting Web-server popularity into money Among the gargantuan number of active sites on the Internet, Netcraft shows Nginx as having just surpassed Microosft's Internet Information Services (IIS) for the second-place... |
| EA's vision to become more like Apple and Amazon (Credit: EA) That is, if EA's online gaming platform, Origin, takes off with consumers. EA Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore believes it's a way to plug in directly to the home... |
| Nokia cuts 4,000 as it moves manufacturing to Asia (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) Nokia plans to cut 4,000 jobs as it moves manufacturing to Asia, the ailing mobile-phone company said today. The cuts will take place this year at factories... |
| Kodak's image-sensor spin-off gets a name: Truesense The image sensor group that beleaguered photography company Eastman Kodak sold last November has been named Truesense... |
