Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. read more
Vancouver police are investigating a brazen robbery at an Apple Store in which three male suspects allegedly sprayed 40 people with a chemical mix designed to ward off bears as they swiped an undetermined amount of Apple laptops, iPads and iPods. read more
Forget tablets and economic woes. "Good enough" computer performance might be the real reason for lackluster PC sales. read more
Over the next few years, almost every app we use and every web site we visit may function less like a machine and more like a person helping us to do our work and live our lives. …
Sony Chairman and former CEO Howard Stringer, who has been at the company since 1997, will be leaving the company in June. read more
Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands. read more
Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands. …
LTE broadcast could make video and other content run better on smartphones and tablets, and the emerging technology has at least one highly motivated backer in mobile chipmaker Qualcomm. read more
The number of new undergraduate computing majors in U.S. computer science departments increased more than 29% last year, a pace called "astonishing" by the Computing Research Association. read more
SAP's HANA in-memory database has become the centerpiece of the software vendor's technology strategy, both for high-speed analytics and in support of transactional applications like its flagship Business Suite. But HANA, when sold in its appliance form, can fetch a steep price tag. read more
The Office of Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has disputed a finding by the agency's Inspector General that several read more
No Microsoft browser rival would comment on, much less confirm, that it reported the omission of the browser ballot to European antitrust regulators — an omission that led to a $732 million fine this week against Microsoft. read more
Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payments, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Friday. read more
Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payments, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Friday. …
Facebook's redesigned News Feed may help keep users flooded with information from quitting the social network, anlaysts said. read more
Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook. read more
Across the United States, teachers are using iPad and other tablets to reinvent the presentation and management of educational material. According to a report in Wired magazine, “tablets’ simplicity, ease of use and the massive range of academically minded applications available are drawing teachers and educational technologists to the platform …
Recent reports from antivirus companies seem to suggest that the number of Android malware threats is growing. However, there are still many skeptics who think that the extent of the problem is exaggerated. read more
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is running again after engineers put it to sleep for a day this week to protect it from a powerful solar storm. read more
Видео с шестилетней девочкой, рост которой едва ли выше метра, собрало больше полутора миллионов просмотров на Youtube. И всё благодаря её недюжинным способностям в брейкдансе. …
Российский поисковик «Яндекс» научился показывать гитарные аккорды к песням непосредственно в выдаче. О нововведении сообщается в блоге «Яндекса». …
A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. …
EMC is providing 2.8 petabytes of storage to help the Vatican Apostolic Library digitize its entire catalogue read more
На Lenta.ru опубликована статья, разбирающаяся в хитросплетениях “дела Chronopay” и связи с ним эксперта “Лаборатории Касперского” (которую cобирается проверять прокуратура из-за подозрения эксперта Лаборатории в получении взятки за “нужную” экспертизу в деле против Дмитрия Артимовича, который в 2010-м году познакомился с Врублевским, чтобы сделать ему антивирус) …
Spanning the globe to joke about this week’s top tech stories, from North Korea to New Zealand with a quick stop on Mars read more
Двое американских исследователей опубликовали отчет, согласно которому легальные онлайн-продажи фильмов выросли после закрытия сервиса Megaupload. …