Google lets Wi-Fi hotspot owners opt out of location service
Bowing to pressure from European privacy regulators, Google will soon allow owners of Wi-Fi access points to opt out of a Google service that allows smartphone owners to identify their location without using GPS (Global Positioning System), it said Tuesday.
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Open source rushes in where Microsoft fears to tread
LibreOffice has just announced that it's launching a new community repository for free LibreOffice (and OpenOffice.org) templates and ex
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Protect your corporate data from email honeypot scam
Garrett Gee and Peter Kim at GodaiGroup found that a small investment in time and money could reap unexpected rewards with a simple, low-tech email honeypot technique that involves something they call "D
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NetLogic will help Broadcom tap into 4G, cloud
Broadcom's deal to buy communications processor vendor NetLogic Microsystems for $3.7 billion will help the company feed the fast-growing demand for intelligent chips in all kinds of networks.
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Research In Motion, Dolby settle patent lawsuits
Dolby Laboratories said Monday that Research In Motion has agreed to license audio technologies that were at the center of two lawsuits filed by Dolby against the Canadian smartphones and tablets company. The licensing agreement covers the implementation of the HE AAC (High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) standard, including use of Dolby's audio compression technologies in RIM's smartphone and tablet devices, Dolby said in a statement on Monday.
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Report: DoCoMo, Samsung to form mobile chip venture
NTT DoCoMo will partner with several Japanese hardware makers and Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics to develop core chips for use in future smartphones, Japan's biggest business newspaper reported Monday.
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Windows 8: Microsoft finally raises the curtain
Microsoft has been teasing us for months with drips of promises for what the next version of Windows -- code-named Windows 8 -- will offer.
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Koomey's Law: Computing efficiency keeps pace with Moore's Law
Since 1965, Moore's Law has served as a benchmark for the computer hardware industry, pushing vendors to double the processing power of computing equipment every 1
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Intel to show tablets, ultrabooks with Windows 8
Intel plans to show Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 on tablets based on new Atom processors, and on ultrabooks, at both the Intel Developer Forum and Microsoft's Build conference this week, according to a source familiar with Intel's plans.
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Cisco brings out routers, hits at Juniper
Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper.
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Objective-C, C#, D language: Winners in programming popularity
Objective-C, used for developing Apple iOS applications, climbs to No. 6 in the monthly Tiobe Programming Community index for most popular programming languages, after being ranked at number 8 a year ago. Also posting gains, C# rose to No. 4, a jump of two spots a year ago, while PHP dropped from No. 4 at this time last year to No. 5.
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Accenture pays $63.7 million to resolve kickbacks case
Technology services and consulting company Accenture has agreed to pay $63.7 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that it participated in a large-scale kickbacks scheme involving U.S. government contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. A 2004 lawsuit accused Accenture of receiving kickbacks from IT vendors, inflating prices, and rigging bids on federal IT contracts.
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Research group: HTML5 adoption might hit Apple's bottom line
The widespread adoption of HTML5 for Web apps could cut Apple's operation profit growth by 30 percent, with Microsoft, Google, and carriers benefiting, Bernstein Research predicted. The financial researchers envision widespread adoption of HTML5 will affect iPhones and iPads, reducing margins for the former and lowering market share for the latter.
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