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In a forum today marking the 25th anniversary of the first .com registration, former President Bill Clinton spoke about his favorite devices, the grim outlook for newspapers and the need for policies to improve Internet access. It was a wide-ranging assessment by Clinton, whose administration (1993-2001) played a largely hands-off role when it came to [...]
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WASHINGTON — China is facing increasing criticism for holding down the value of its currency to gain export advantage, and for its cyber-attacks against Google . But another growing concern is its control of rare earth metals critical to high-tech manufacturing. China’s pricing of these metals is so low that it has become unprofitable for [...]
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Tandberg, in the process of being acquired by Cisco Systems, today launched the EX90, a high-definition videoconferencing desktop system focused on executive users. Providing full 1080p30 resolution on a 24-inch HD desktop screen will allow executives to interact with customers, employees and others “as if they were sitting across the desk,” Tandberg CEO Fredrik Halvorsen [...]
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The vintage Commodore 64 personal computer is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback. The Commodore 64 was a home computer running on an 8-bit processor released by Commodore International in 1982. The computer was one of the most popular [...]
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SanDisk Corp. plans to announce tomorrow that it has started shipping what it claims is the world’s highest-capacity removable memory card for mobile phones – the 32GB SanDisk microSDHC. The new microSDHC card targets the smartphone market and uses third-generation 32nm lithography techniques with 3-bit-per-cell NAND flash technology. Most manufactures of NAND flash products use [...]
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It seems like I was walking out of Moscone Center at the end of the 2010 edition of Macworld Expo just the other day. (It was actually about nine days ago.) But organizers of the annual Mac trade show have already opened up registration for next year’s event. And for the next two weeks, registration [...]
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Wal-Mart Stores is taking another swing at the online movie business with the acquisition of Vudu. The retail giant announced the deal on Monday following widespread speculation that an acquisition would be coming soon. Financial terms were not disclosed. Vudu has developed software that is built into TVs and Blu-ray players and lets users rent [...]
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The hero and the villain. It’s the age-old formula that pervades today’s reality TV showdowns, the shenanigans of professional wrestling and cinematic classics like Star Wars. Tech is no different, with its passionate heroes who balance profit with innovation and social responsibility, and the money-mad, egomaniac villains who simply cannot be trusted. Here’s a look [...]
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Apple is selling more Macs than ever these days. And according to a survey from a computer support company, those new customers are enjoying some very reliable machines. On Monday, Rescuecom released its 2010 computer reliability report, with Apple winning the top spot in the survey. The company also led the pack in Rescuecom’s last [...]
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Rather than targeting Web and email servers, attackers these days are prone to going after enterprises from the inside out, compromising end user systems and then using them to access confidential data, according to a Web traffic analysis report by security-as-a-service provider Zscaler. Based on a recent study of traffic passing through its global network, [...]
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