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By: Nathan Eddy, eWeek
Electronics manufacturer Sony announced its 9.4-inch Tablet S is getting a $100 price cut, lowering the price of the 16GB model to $400 and the 32GB model to $500. Sony had previously issued a $50 price cut on Dec. 15 in an apparent...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By: Nathan Eddy, eWeek
Apple’s Senior Vice president of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive, born in England, has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) for “services to design and enterprise.” Ive, the winne...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By Brian Bergstein, Technology Review
We’ve been living in the age of social media for a long time, but 2011 was the year that all the information we share online began to accrete into something greater than the sum of its parts. It is creating a la...
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by David Zax, Technology Review
It may be stretching the point a little to call it, as Wired’s Cade Metz does, the “world’s fastest nonexistent supercomputer.” Amazon’s supercomputer–it built one recently atop its Elast...
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by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
Thanks to email management startup Tout, I just got access to an analytics dashboard that includes an array of deftly visualized statistics covering my use of email in 2011. And you can too, right here. If you’...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By eWEEK
The severity, volume, and even the sophistication of cyber attacks is increasing, with very expensive and sometimes devastating results. Millions of records are lost or stolen, identities at risk and systems down for hours or days, just to name a...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
The rumor mill for Apple’s iPad 3 seems to be gearing up, with a new DigiTimes report that the company will adopt IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) flat panels for the next-generation tablet. “Starting with the new iPads,...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek
Cyber-criminals have been busy in the days after Christmas, targeting users with new gadgets and computers with phishing and malware campaigns. Malware infections spiked 25 percent on the day after Christmas, according to data...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
by David Zax, Technology Review
Rumors of an Apple-branded television set — as opposed to the set-top box the company already makes — are no stranger to this blog. But the rumors have taken on a fever pitch of late, with the Wall Street Journa...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
by KFC, Technology Review
In July, physicists created a “hole in time” using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists’ newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme...
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By Stephen Cass, Technology Review
Computing has becoming increasingly polarized, with many hardware and software efforts focused on either small mobile devices or vast data centers. 2011 saw the personal computer continue to be marginalized. Although PCs...
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By: Wayne Rash, eWeek
For those of us who write about the wireless industry, 2011 was a busy, and sometimes annoying, year. We got to read hundreds of pages of court documents and FCC pleadings for the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile, which fortunately n...
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By eWEEK
Telework initiatives are taking a firmer foothold as proponents leverage organizations’ increasing adoption of cloud solutions as the technological backbone of new or expanded telecommuting programs. Many studies have shown the benefits tel...
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By eWEEK
Organizations have extraordinary opportunities to differentiate themselves today through analytics. That’s the findings of the 2011 New Intelligent Enterprise Global Executive Study and Research Project. The study, a joint venture between the M...
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by the BBC
A man is being sued for keeping Twitter followers that he attracted while working for a US mobile news website. Noah Kravitz tweeted for Phonedog as @Phonedog_Noah, but later changed his username when he left the company – taking 17,000 f...
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by the BBC
Google was the most popular website with US users in 2011 but Facebook was not far behind, according to market researchers. Nielsen suggests more than 153 million visitors clicked onto Google branded pages each month, as Facebook attracted clos...
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by Dave Lee, BBC
Orangutans at a Milwaukee zoo could soon be video-calling their primate friends via tablet computers. The hairy tech fans have been playing with iPads since they were first introduced to them in May. Conservationist Richard Zimmerman said...
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by the BBC
Smartphones are eating into sales of basic cameras and camcorders in the US, according to market researchers. The NPD Group said the point-and-shoot camera market sold 17% fewer units over the first 11 months of the year compared to the same pe...
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by the BBC
The activist hacker group Anonymous says it has stolen thousands of emails, passwords and credit card details from a US-based security think-tank. The hackers claim they were able to obtain the information because the company, Stratfor, did not...
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By Duncan Graham-Rowe, Technology Review
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to be moved between different machines through relativel...
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