More than 1,600 websites selling pharmaceutical products, including some spoofing CVS and Walgreens pharmacies, were shut down this week in a sting involving 99 countries, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. …
Intel's CTO and director of its labs Justin Rattner is stepping down to meet a requirement under the company's bylaws that employees cannot serve as corporate officers after the age of 65. …
Myanmar is a step closer to offering affordable mobile services after selecting two international carriers to launch telecommunications networks in one of Asia's last untapped markets. …
A former high-ranking U.S. military official is reportedly under investigation for leaking classified information related to the use of malicious software to disrupt Iran's uranium refinement program. …
NASA launched a solar telescope on Thursday that scientists hope will be able to unlock the secrets of how material gathers, moves and heats up as it travels through the Sun's lower atmosphere. …
If Google Glass isn't enough to get you worried about technology, how about a device that can see through walls using Wi-Fi? …
Google reportedly is developing a gaming console powered by its Android mobile operating system in an effort to widen the software's reach beyond smartphones and tablets and stay ahead of its competitors. …
Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff's long-running public feud appears to be over, with the CEOs of Oracle and Salesforce.com making a joint appearance Thursday to extol the virtues of a new partnership they describe as financially sensible and strategically pragmatic. …
Further boosting its presence in the field of product marketing, Adobe is acquiring campaign management software provider Neolane for approximately US$600 million in cash. read more
Nearly 36 years after its launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is nearing the edge of the solar system and interstellar space. …
The Federal Trade Commission today said it has won a $7.5 million civil penalty – the largest ever — against Mortgage Investors Corporation, one of the nation's biggest refinancers of veterans' home loans for allegedly violating "Do Not Call" requirements. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to open up 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band for commercial mobile services. read more
Twitter is hoping to make it easier for people to discover new music on its #music iOS app with the addition of genre search tools, released Thursday. read more
Months of talk about Windows 8.1 and lower-priced, smaller tablets may be behind app submission increase read more
Cisco this week significantly extended its data center networking portfolio with a new fabric architecture, an enhancement to another and, as expected, an extension to its Nexus core switching line. read more
Facebook is launching a beta tester program for Android smartphone users that it hopes will result in quicker diagnosis of bugs and more feedback on new features. read more
While many of Windows 8.1's major changes focus on the user interface, ultimately it all comes down to the apps. read more
There's a lot of Wi-Fi out there, but right now, to guarantee your domestic flight will have Wi-Fi, you'd better do your research read more
Microsoft and Oracle are working together? Oh, wait. I guess that should be a statement instead of a question. The two companies have joined forces in a new cloud venture. read more
In its continuing efforts to woo users with new products and services, Yahoo is at it again, this time with a redesign of its News Page. read more
Symantec has uncovered a new Android threat you might recognize from PC malware–fake antivirus and ransom ware attacks. read more
The idea of big data–of unlocking the power of data you already have–is a seductive one. read more
Hortonworks has released a preview distribution of the next generation of Apache Hadoop, one that promises to broaden the scope of the kinds of analysis that can be carried out on the data processing platform. read more
The firewall in decades past was mainly the port-based guardian of the Internet. Now vendors are vying to build so-called "next-generation firewalls" that are "application-aware" because they can monitor and control access based on application use. read more
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств Xiaocai анонсировал свой новый мощный смартфон X9, который пополнит ассортимент бюджетных коммуникаторов с дисплеем до 5 дюймов. Аппарат построен на базе, популярного среди китайских производителей, 1,2-Гигагрцового процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами MediaTek MT6589 и обладает 4,5-дюймовым дисплеем, 2 Гигабайтами оперативной памяти, фронтальной камерой с 5-Мегапиксельной матрицей …
Корпорация Microsoft сообщила, что его собственный магазин мобильных приложений Windows Phone Store на сегодняшний день насчитывает уже более 160000 программ, а приложений для Windows 8 в магазине достигает 100000. Также Microsoft заявила, что ежемесячно из Windows Store загружается более 200 миллионов приложений, а это значит что компания работает в правильном направлении …