Last week, Dell cranked its wallet wide open and announced its intention to buy up a company called “3Par” for $1.15 billion. Putting 3Par under the Dell umbrella would buff up the high-end storage and large-scale backup side of its business and give companies like IBM and HP a new competitor to worry about. The [...]
A cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle flight. The detector, called the “Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,” was flown in from the CERN Labs in Switzerland. [...]
During the first half of 2010, more than 4,300 new disclosures of software security issues came to light. That’s according to the mid-year report issued by IBM’s special X-Force security research team. What’s perhaps a bit more disturbing is how many of those vulnerabilities remain unfixed. More than half of the vulnerabilities identified during the [...]
Technology is a wonderful thing. It has given us many good things, including the pacemaker, the radio, TV, prosthetic limbs and eyes that help the lame and the blind, instant communications by way of the Internet and mobile phones. Proponents of technology point to all this as evidence that technology gives us freedom. But technology [...]
Garmin on Wednesday recalled 1.25 million Nuvi GPS navigation units worldwide due to a battery problem. Of those, 765,000 were sold in the United States. The recalled units may overheat, leading to a fire hazard, Garmin said. The models affected are some units of the Garmin 200W, 250W and 260W families, and a few in [...]
A “significant compromise” of U.S. military networks has been acknowledged by the Pentagon two years after the breach was reported in the press. “In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks,” Deputy Secretary of Defense William S. Lynn III wrote in an article in the September/October [...]
Today, there is a significant deployment of 3G/3.5G networks, supporting a whole range of bandwidth-intensive applications such as audio and video streaming. Consumers are looking to replicate their Internet experiences from wired broadband services even while they are on the move. The phenomenal success of smartphones, netbooks and tablet PCs has resulted in a sudden [...]
Say what you will about Microsoft’s products, but there’s no denying the company’s entertainment value. Where else, after all, could a Linux fan find reason to laugh, cry, scream and commit various violent acts, all neatly wrapped up in one little package? That, indeed, is a fair approximation of the emotions that ran through Linux [...]
The iPhone’s screen is well-proportioned for a pants pocket, but you wouldn’t want to use it all day as a dedicated computer monitor. Not if it was your main screen, anyway. But having a small screen off to the side can be surprisingly useful in a lot of situations. There’s a company called Mimo that [...]
Another day, another new smartphone coming to market. In this case, it is Dell’s Aero, a device retailing for $99 with a two-year contract with AT&T. Features include a 5 MP camera, a 3.5-inch display, and Flash Lite support for streaming audio and video content. It also has WiFi connectivity, giving users access to AT&T’s [...]