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Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:52:13 +0000

OnApp and Dell have teamed up to create pretested cloud packages for service providers and make it easier for them to roll out services, which could result in more competition in the cloud space.

For young students, a C# coding workshop for kids

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:06:17 +0000

As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10.

Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:55:09 +0000

Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.

Estimates peg 59M Windows 8 devices in use

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:50:16 +0000

Microsoft this week said that it had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 in the operating system's first six months. But how many copies are being used?

Pioneer to crowdsource car navigation, add augmented reality

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:46:08 +0000

Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and other cars, and will share images of road conditions with other vehicles.

Apple regains fifth spot in Chinese smartphone market, shipments soar

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:24:07 +0000

Apple retook its spot as China's fifth largest smartphone vendor in the first quarter, as the country's market grew to triple the size of the U.S.'s.

There's an app for that: Avoiding the ugliest business problems

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:17:17 +0000

Kindergarten rules for living well can get you in trouble in the corporate world. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst type.

Stream PBS content to your Roku player

pasmith — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

And I finally get around to mentioning the Time Warner Cable Roku Channel, too.

The challenge of growing food on Mars

Christopher Nerney — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

For humans to establish permanent colonies on Mars, they'll have to grow their own food. It won't be easy.

Nokia hopes new interface on Asha 501 will prop up phone business

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:47:27 +0000

Nokia has expanded its line of phones with the Asha 501, which comes with an improved touch user interface to help keep low-cost Android-based products at bay.

Sony profitable again, but core electronics still struggling

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:28:15 +0000

Sony made good on a promise to return to profitability after offloading a number of valuable assets last year, but its core electronics business is still losing money.

Mozilla's Firefox OS will also appear on high-end phones

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:37:34 +0000

The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said.

California may outlaw 3-D printed guns

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:48:24 +0000

Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online.

Silicon Valley tech incubator hosts Norwegian royals

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:32:29 +0000

Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit tried touchless gesturing systems and other technologies developed by Norwegian startups at a tech incubator in Palo Alto on Wednesday afternoon .

Microsoft releases fix-it for Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:03:12 +0000

Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.