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5 hours 5 min ago
The game is going to be browser based and developed with the Unity3D engine. Call me skeptic, but this sounds like a bad idea to me.
6 hours 15 min ago
Tens of millions of Web users in North America and Western Europe have clicked on spam at least once - and many of them did it on purpose - according to preliminary results of an online survey that are indicative of the widespread lack of consumer awareness of e-mail threats.
6 hours 45 min ago
Google today announced that it will now be adding banner dvertising to its YouTube mobile sites. According to the company’s blog, the ads will appear on U.S. and Japanese mobile websites for home, browser and search pages.
7 hours 15 min ago
There’s a lot of movement in the rumor mill about technology waiting to be unveiled at E3, so lets take a look.
9 hours 5 min ago
Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks.
9 hours 25 min ago
The digital world's top thinkers share their visions of the future. Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule and assistant professor at Stanford University speaks about the power of mobile apps - and how they can enable meaningful human relationships.
12 hours 5 min ago
Chuck Thacker, a technical fellow at Microsoft Research, has won the prestigious A.M. Turing Award -- sometimes called the Nobel of computing -- for a lifetime of contributions to computing. The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Thacker for his work on building Alto, the first modern personal computer, while working for Xerox PARC.
13 hours 2 min ago
In the first few months following the adoption of the three-strikes anti-piracy legislation in France, online piracy has increased significantly. Instead of stopping, file-sharers are seeking alternatives to bypass the new law.
17 hours 25 min ago
After calling out the social network for using electricity generated with coal for its new green data center, it turns out that at least some of Greenpeace's servers are powered by coal as well as nuclear power.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:10
Cisco Systems, has announced the launch of a super-fast and effeciency-focused router technology which will be at the heart of "the next generation of the Internet".
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:00
Sometimes companies spar out their differences behind closed doors, and sometimes they have guys like Jen-Hsun Huang at their helms and the whole world gets to know how they feel and what they intend to do about it. He has taken a recent interview with Fortune magazine as an opportunity to eloquently lay out his side's case.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:50
The police force monitoring serial sex attacker Peter Chapman before he fled to kidnap, rape and murder Ashleigh Hall has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:20
Following in the footsteps of the Swedes and Germans, the Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections being held this spring. The Pirate Party booked a surprising victory by scooping two seats in the European Parliament last year, but has yet to score its first elected seat in a national Parliament.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 03:20
Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network's RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for personal use.
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:40
Sam Pitroda, adviser to the PM of India delivers his views on cell phone voting and how the paradigm of the classroom will change in the future. He also states the "internet is going to bring this whole idea of guru back."
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:10
Google has just launched Google Public Data Explorer. The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics.
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:00
Play.com has been listed on Google Products as selling the Apple iPad for the UK price of £499 for the 16GB version and a whopping £699 for the bigger 64GB version.
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:50
It's an arms race around the country's quieter quarters to get Google to bring broadband Internet to their parts. Topeka, Kansas is so desperate, they are willing to rename the city "Google, Kansas." Gag.
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:50
Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right -- with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China -- and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:41
Symantec and McAfee are two top contenders when it comes to antivirus software. But one of them needs to re-educate its support technicians...again.