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  • Anonymous India calls for non-violent protests against censorship

    Posted May 28, 2012 - 8:35 am

    The Indian arm of Anonymous is planning what it describes as non-violent protests against Internet censorship in various Indian cities, after some Internet service providers blocked file-sharing sites in the country.

  • LG working on Retina-beating 5-inch smartphone display

    Posted May 28, 2012 - 5:17 am

    LG Display has introduced a 5-inch full HD LCD panel for smartphone displays -- the highest resolution mobile panel to date, the company said on Monday.

  • RIM said to plan to lay off 2,000 staff

    Posted May 28, 2012 - 12:29 am

    Research In Motion, the ailing maker of the BlackBerry, is planning to cut at least 2,000 staff as part of a global restructuring plan, according to reports.

  • Federal IT reform slower than claimed

    Posted May 27, 2012 - 7:08 am

    The efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to streamline and improve the government's IT systems aren't proceeding as quickly as officials have suggested, however, government auditors note steady progress as departments and agencies transition to the cloud and consolidate data centers.

  • The week in iOS apps: Come fly with me

    Posted May 27, 2012 - 7:08 am

    This week’s roundup of iOS apps is another feast for the senses, with offerings that let you pretend to fly through the air, watch the latest shows, read the latest news, or plan that trip to the big city.

  • Gartner: Don't trust cloud provider to protect your corporate assets

    Posted May 27, 2012 - 7:03 am

    When a family with a baby buys a new car, they don't buy a car seat from the vehicle manufacturer: There is specialized equipment to handle the family's most sensitive asset. John Pescatore, a Gartner vice president and security analyst, says cloud security can be thought of in a similar way: Users shouldn't rely on their cloud service provider's security features to protect their most critical data.

  • Microsoft's So.cl: a brief tour

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:55 am

    Microsoft's social networking experiment, So.cl, a site designed around sharing Web content pulled from Bing searches, is now available for all users. Launched in December and aimed at students, So.cl is not meant to compete with popular social networks such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. So.cl isn't a place to connect with friends and share moments from your lives.

  • Facebook vs. Google: who will win?

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:50 am

    Facebook is now officially a public company, scads of new millionaires are on a Silicon Valley spending spree, and media outlets near and far have yet to pipe down about the IPO, likely one of the most anticipated in history.

  • 'Liberating' your data from Google, and what that really means

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:50 am

    If you listen to the growing chorus of online chatter about the company, Google's now-infamous "Don't be evil" slogan is becoming increasingly inaccurate by the day. The company's most recent move--a sweeping change that consolidated most of its privacy policies under a single umbrella--immediately drew umbrage from critics who felt that Google was on its way to taking all the data it has collected from its users through its dozens of services and building an exhaustive dossier on each of us that would be used mercilessly in efforts to sell us things.

  • Amazon's Android appstore allows users to test apps on phones

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:50 am

    You no longer need a PC browser to test out apps from Amazon’s Appstore for Android. The online retailer recently announced that you can try out apps before you buy them by using the company’s new beta feature, Test Drive for Android. All you need is a compatible device and the Amazon Appstore for Android app version 2.6.53 or higher.

  • How to protect your artistic works with a Creative Commons license

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:50 am

    Your business revolves around producing creative works, and you use the Internet to market those works. Considering how quickly and easily such material can be disseminated around the world without your knowledge or permission, how do you go about protecting your rights to those works? A Creative Commons license might be the most realistic solution.

  • Facebook vs Google: by the numbers

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:35 am

    With the world's largest social networking website, Facebook, going public it is quite obvious that comparisons with Google will crop up. We have collated some figures and here is a list of numbers comparing the two giants.

  • The expert's guide to Instapaper

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:35 am

    They arrive by Twitter, by RSS, and by email. They're passed around on social networks. They’re embedded in online articles and blog posts. I’m talking about all of those links to things you'd like to read but can’t. Making time to read everything you find on the Web the moment you find it is hard, so you probably don’t read it at all—unless you use a read-it-later service like Instapaper.

  • Inside Apple's secret plan to kill the cash register

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:30 am

    Apple's plans for a Bluetooth 4.0-based iWallet could be the beginning of the end for the venerable cash register.

  • 10 ways Facebook will rule our lives

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:30 am

    After all the attention, clamor, and expectations Facebook is now a publicly traded company worth $104 billion. With shares trading at a hundred times earnings, Facebook is under a lot of pressure to increase the profit that it brings in. In other words, now the fun begins.

  • The week in iOS apps: hear, hear!

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:25 am

    This week's roundup of iOS apps offers all kinds of listening options--whether you're staying at home, partying at the club, or going to see your favorite band in concert.

  • What's missing from the iPhone 5 rumor mill

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:25 am

    A key tenet of Apple rumormongering is that Apple history repeats itself repeatedly: If Apple has done X, Y and 42 so much as twice consecutively, pundits posit that Apple will do X, Y and 42 a third time.

  • Sidecar smartphone app: share data while making a phone call

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:25 am

    There are a lot of apps out there that allow you to do just about anything with today's smartphone, but most of them avoid trying to better the good old voice call.

  • Windows Phone Marketplace goes Mango only

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:25 am

    If you're having trouble downloading apps from the Windows Phone Marketplace, you just might be a pre-Mango Windows Phone 7 user. Microsoft is now enforcing a rule that only users of Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed Mango, can use the Marketplace in any meaningful way. Without the Mango update you can still browse the Marketplace, but you will start getting error messages if you attempt to download, buy, update, or review an app.

  • Yahoo Axis syncs browsing between iOS and desktop

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:15 am

    Yahoo is rolling out Axis, a new searching and browsing tool that syncs between your Web browser of choice and your iOS devices.

  • Apple's iTunes promo gives paid apps away for free

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:11 am

    Apple may be following in the footsteps of Amazon's Appstore for Android by offering a paid app for free on a regular basis.

  • Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

    Posted May 25, 2012 - 7:31 pm

    Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

  • FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

    Posted May 25, 2012 - 3:53 pm

    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.

  • Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

    Posted May 25, 2012 - 1:12 pm

    Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

  • Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

    Posted May 25, 2012 - 11:03 am

    A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.
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