Tech, Opinion, US NewsSurrender your digital privacy or face a fine
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Tech, US NewsLady Liberty Getting High-Tech Upgrade for 125th Birthday
Posted: Oct 28th, 2011 3:05 PM
NEW YORK – Lady Liberty is getting a high-tech uplift for her 125th birthday: Internet-connected cameras on her torch that will let viewers gaze out at New York Harbor or see visitors on the grounds below.
The "lighting" of the so-called torch cams was one of many events planned for Friday's ceremony commemorating the Statue ... Read More
TechiPhone Crushes BlackBerry
Posted: Sep 21st, 2011 8:37 AM
Research In Motion sales in the US fell by 50 percent last quarter, dragging total revenue lower, as American consumers abandoned older BlackBerry phone models for Apple iPhones.
Revenue from the US dropped to $1.11 billion from $2.22 billion a year earlier, overshadowing gains in Canada and other markets, according to a ... Read More
TechChina Behind Massive Cyberattack?
Posted: Aug 3rd, 2011 10:36 AM
The world's most extensive case of cyber-espionage, including attacks on U.S. government and U.N. computers, is set to be revealed Wednesday by online security firm McAfee, and analysts are speculating that China is behind the attacks.
The spying was dubbed "Operation Shady RAT," or "remote access tool" by McAfee -- and it ... Read More
TechFacebook Hires Famed PlayStation 3 Hacker
Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 10:40 AM
Facebook has hired George Hotz, better known in hacker circles as Geohot, who was famously sued by Sony for breaking through the operating system on the PlayStation 3 video game console.
A Facebook spokeswoman, who declined to be named, said in an email to the Technology blog that "George is employed at Facebook," ... Read More
TechThe History of Email
Posted: Jun 19th, 2011 11:16 AM
Email, you’ve come a long way.
In its 40-year tenure as a form of communication, email has run its course from the domain of über nerdy computer scientists to one of the most common ways to keep in touch, both personally and professionally.
Although email as a mode of communication was around for ten years before ... Read More
TechApple To Stop Accepting DUI Checkpoint Apps
Posted: Jun 12th, 2011 1:57 AM
It's getting harder for tech-savvy drivers to pinpoint the locations of police drunken-driving checkpoints: Apple will ban from its online store future applications that inform users of checkpoints not publicized by police.
The move comes three months after four Democratic U.S. senators — Charles Schumer of New York, Harry ... Read More
TechGoogle Chromebook Review
Posted: May 12th, 2011 5:20 PM
Google's Chromebook is a cloud-based alternative to the traditional Windows laptop. But it could find itself squeezed between Windows and tablets.
Does Google’s Chromebook threaten Windows’ lock on enterprise computing?
As revealed at Google I/O in San Francisco this week, Samsung and Acer will produce cloud-centric ... Read More
Tech, ReligionYiddish cell phone launches in Israel
Posted: May 11th, 2011 8:08 PM
Israel’s “kosher” cellular phone market has a new model, a device with a Yiddish interface to help devout Jews combine tradition with modern technology.
Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones, popularly dubbed kosher because they block access to services frowned upon by ultra-Orthodox rabbis, have been operating in ... Read More
TechRIM Launches New BlackBerry Bold Smartphone
Posted: May 2nd, 2011 12:41 PM
Research In Motion unveiled an updated version of its BlackBerry Bold smartphone on Monday plus enhancements to its new operating system as it sought to regain its stride after a profit warning.
RIM said the touchscreen phone, available worldwide in the summer on both major standards, would have more processing power ... Read More
TechIsrael Unveils First Kosher Yiddish Smartphone
Posted: Apr 27th, 2011 2:37 PM
An Israeli telecoms company is offering ultra-Orthodox Jewish clients a kosher smartphone with Hassidic folk music ringtones and a menu in Yiddish, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
While other firms have tapped into the religious market by offering phones free of Internet access, with no email or access to Facebook which ... Read More
TechCongress Deepens Apple Location Tracking Probe
Posted: Apr 26th, 2011 10:43 PM
Lawmakers extended their probe into location tracking on mobile devices this week, asking Apple Inc and other developers to divulge how they use location data and scheduling a separate hearing on mobile privacy.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to top mobile device operating system developers on ... Read More
TechAmazon Web Services Disruption Knocks Vos Iz Neias Site Down Most of The Day
Updated: Apr 21st, 2011 11:15 PM
VosIzNeias site has been down due to a major issue with their hosting provider as reported by major news outlets, Amazon Web Services (specifically, the Amazon cloud-computing) is having a major outages today. Unfortunately, VosIzNeias is one of the many websites that are effected by this major service disruption. Amazon says ... Read More
TechApple's Jobs Ordered To Answer iTunes Questions
Updated: Mar 23rd, 2011 9:08 AM
Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs, who is out on medical leave, has been ordered to answer questions from lawyers for a group of consumers accusing the company of creating a music-download monopoly.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd, based in San Jose, California, ruled on Monday that lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the ... Read More
Tech Airport Uses Wi-Fi To Track Passengers
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2011 11:59 AM
GENEVA - The scene at Copenhagen International Airport one recent day was much like that at any airport around the world: passengers hurrying through the terminal, waiting in security lines or lingering at the duty-free shops.
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Stephane Cheikh, innovation manager ... Read More
Tech, Israeli NewsHackers Try to Bring Down Jewish Agency's Website
Posted: Sep 11th, 2012 12:35 AM
Jewish Agency uses new safeguarding methods after hackers attack its website over the weekend.
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Hackers from several countries around the world tried to attack the website of the Jewish Agency this past weekend.
As of ... Read More
Tech, Israeli NewsDaniel Shechtman, from Technion won NOBEL for crystal discovery
Posted: Oct 5th, 2011 12:56 PM
The Nobel prize for chemistry has gone to a single researcher for his discovery of the structure of quasicrystals.
The new structural form was previously thought to be impossible and provoked controversy.
Daniel Shechtman, from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, will receive the entire 10m Swedish krona ... Read More
Business, TechGoogle To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
Posted: Aug 15th, 2011 8:15 AM
Google is buying cell phone maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash in what is by far the company’s biggest acquisition to date.
Google Inc. will pay $40.00 per share, a 63 percent premium to Motorola’s closing price on Friday.
The companies say the deal has been approved by the boards of both.
Google CEO ... Read More
TechInternet Explorer Users Are Kinda Stupid, Study Suggests
Posted: Jul 31st, 2011 10:31 PM
If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at least, according to one study.
AptiQuant, a "psychometric consulting" firm that provides hiring exams for businesses, gave online IQ tests to more than 100,000 people. Visitors arrived either through organic searches or through advertisements on other sites, ... Read More
TechForget .com, here's .coke
Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 8:00 AM
The trusty old Internet addresses we know and love -- the .coms, .nets, .orgs -- are about to get some new competition.
Global Internet regulators met Monday in Singapore to finalize rules for a major expansion of "generic top-level domains," that will clear the way for new offerings like .law, .coke or .nyc. Sites with ... Read More
TechIBM Turns 100: A Look Back
Posted: Jun 16th, 2011 9:20 AM
Apple and Microsoft have been in business for more than three decades, Google has been around for 12 years, and Twitter's just getting started with five years under its belt. But all of these tech giants have a long way to go to reach the 100-year milestone that Big Blue is celebrating today.
On this day in 1911, IBM ... Read More
Tech US Outlines Global Plan For Cyberspace
Posted: May 17th, 2011 8:35 AM
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration laid out plans Monday to work aggressively with other nations to make the Internet more secure, enable law enforcement to work closely on cybercrime and ensure that citizens everywhere have the freedom to express themselves online.
And in the strongest terms to date, the White House ... Read More
TechAP Sources: White House Set To Unveil Cyber Plan
Posted: May 12th, 2011 10:39 AM
WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday is expected to unveil its proposal to enhance the nation's cybersecurity, laying out plans to require industry to better protect systems that run critical infrastructure like the electrical grid, financial systems and nuclear power plants. The Obama administration also is insisting ... Read More
TechVideo: Forget The iPhone, Here's The Smartphone Made Out Of 'Paper'
Posted: May 6th, 2011 9:42 AM
In an industry where unbreakable and smaller are best, the world's first interactive paper computer looks set to dominate for years to come.
The PaperPhone has a flexible electronic display that is set to herald a new generation of computers.
Extremely lightweight and made out of a thin-film, the prototype device can do ... Read More
TechMan Unknowingly Liveblogs On Twitter Bin Laden Operation
Posted: May 2nd, 2011 9:44 AM
Abbottabad, Pakistan -A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site Twitter.
With his tweets @ReallyVirtual, 33-year-old Sohaib Athar, who ... Read More
TechApple Denies iPhones Store User Location
Posted: Apr 27th, 2011 11:39 AM
NEW YORK - Apple Inc. denied Wednesday that iPhones store a record of their users' movements for up to a year and blamed privacy concerns partly on a misunderstanding.
A data file publicized by security researchers last week doesn't store users' locations, but a list of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in their general ... Read More
TechSamsung Files Countersuit Against Apple As Two Tech Companies Continue Patent Battle
Updated: Apr 23rd, 2011 10:01 PM
A week after Apple sued Samsung for copycatting its popular iPhone and iPad, Samsung hit back with a patent suit of its own.
The South Korean firm filed a countersuit Friday against Apple, claiming the California company infringed on 10 of Samsung's mobile technology patents in iPhones and iPads.
"Samsung is responding ... Read More
TechReport: Facebook In Talks To Hire Obama Ex-Aide Gibbs
Posted: Mar 28th, 2011 9:23 AM
Facebook, the social networking giant, is seeking to hire former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs for a senior post, The New York Times reported.
The newspaper reported on its website late on Sunday that Facebook is looking at Gibbs, once one of President Barack Obama's closest aides, to help manage ... Read More
TechBlackBerry PlayBook Price And Release Date Announced
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2011 12:14 PM
NEW YORK - Research In Motion Ltd. says its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, will start selling in the U.S. and Canada on April 19 for $499 to $699.
RIM said Tuesday that customers can start pre-ordering the gadgets – its answer to Apple Inc.'s popular iPad devices – through Best Buy. The PlayBook has a ... Read More
TechThe Tiny Cube That Could Cut Your Cell Phone Bill
Posted: Mar 21st, 2011 2:38 PM
NEW YORK - As mobile data usage skyrockets, wireless companies are spending billions each year to maximize capacity, and consumers end up footing the cost in the form of higher cell phone bills.
But a cube that fits in the palm of your hand could help solve that problem.
It's called lightRadio, a Rubik's cube-sized ... Read More
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