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NIST improves tool for hardening software against cyber attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have dramatically enlarged a database designed to improve applications that help programmers find weaknesses in software. This ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Logitech pulls plug on Google TV set-top boxes

Logitech has pulled the plug on Google TV set-top boxes, saying consumers just aren't ready for the device which merges television and the Internet.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Facebook in no rush to IPO, enter China

Facebook is in no hurry to go public or to get into China, where it is officially blocked, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant.

Technology / Business

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tapjoy calms mobile 'app' storm

Startup Tapjoy on Thursday set out to woo smartphone and tablet computer lovers with a marketplace that makes it easy to find and use applications suited to their tastes.

Technology / Software

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

HTML5 OS is set to disrupt platform lock-in

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Canada-based startup founded in November 2010 arrived at TechCrunch Disrupt last week to debut its "HTML5 operating system" called Carbyn. To get this system, there is nothing to install; ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook irons out kinks

Consumers shopping for a PC have a new choice: laptops running Google's Chrome OS operating system.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google's lobbying bill tops $2M for 1st time in 2Q

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s quarterly lobbying expenses surpassed $2 million for the first time during the spring and early summer amid U.S. government scrutiny that hatched a wide-ranging investigation into the Internet search ...

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created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google a start-up refocusing on products: CFO

Google co-founder Larry Page, who took over as chief executive in April, is refocusing the Internet giant on products and its "start-up philosophy," its chief financial officer said Wednesday.

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created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mozilla's pdf.js project reaches its first milestone

(PhysOrg.com) -- You may recall our earlier reporting on the Mozilla's pdf.js project, in which the folks over at Mozilla are trying to get their browser to display PDF files in your Firefox web browser with ...

Technology / Software

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

US anti-trust oversight of Microsoft ends Thursday

Justice Department oversight of Microsoft is ending on Thursday, more than a decade after the US authorities filed an historic anti-trust lawsuit against the US software giant.

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google-powered laptops to go on sale June 15 (Update)

The first laptops running on a Google-designed software system will go on sale in the U.S. and six other countries next month.

Technology / Software

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Malicious programmers focus on smartphones, tablets

Malicious programmers are always looking for new targets. While smartphones and tablets replace PCs as the gadgets we use for messaging, Web surfing and even doing business, some shady characters are starting to target these ...

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created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM computer taking on 'Jeopardy!' champs for $1M

It's the size of 10 refrigerators, and it swallows encyclopedias whole, but an IBM computer was lacking one thing it needed to battle the greatest champions from the "Jeopardy!" quiz show.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 12

Google still polishing Chrome OS, postpones debut (Update)

(AP) -- It's taking longer than Google Inc. anticipated to deliver a new operating system designed to make computers run faster.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 8

News Corp. buys education technology company

News Corp. said that it had agreed to acquire 90 percent of education technology company Wireless Generation for 360 million dollars in cash.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0